Gulliver Meets Southern Gothic in a Bawdy Tale!
Hunted from Brothel to Brothel from New Orleans, Louisiana to Yellow Gulch Texas,
A Man of Culture. A Town of Idiots. A Noose That Doesn’t Care for the Difference.
Ricardé Delachais Rubiné is many things: a polyglot, a child of the Enlightenment, and the proud product of a scandalous New Orleans love affair. He is a man of refined tastes and "laissez-faire" attitudes.
He is most certainly not "Deadwood Dick."
But in the dusty, "hickified" hamlet of Yellow Gulch, Texas, facts are secondary to the drunken roar of a lynch mob. Trapped in a cell and serenaded by an abominable ballad celebrating his impending demise, Ricardé finds himself caught betwixt a Scylla of local ignorance and a Charybdis of his own making.
How did a scion of New Orleans’ elite end up "hogtied on a donkey" in the middle of nowhere? It is a tale of:
• Mistaken Identity: Why being called "Deadeye" is a compliment, but being called "Deadwood" is a death sentence.
• Cruel Irony: The "French
