“So God created man in his own image,” he laughed and closed his Bible. “Whoever wrote such words never saw this man.”
Through empty eyes, Jacob Marsh, aka Deadman, sees a side of men only open to God and Satan. Afford an advantage at the gambling table, and the battle of North and South, but what his mother told him was a blessing never proved more than a curse.
Ten years and two thousand miles, Deadman can not leave the Northern invasion behind. The war took his home and family, and about everything he was taught as a child. Thou shalt not kill, being one. Killing got him through the war, and across the country, all the way to Utah, where taking another life saved his own. It was a card game, man the name of Fuller.
“…Pete’s brother Bob, and a man goes by the name a John Tucker. If any come lookin’ for ya it be them.”
Deadman thanked the smith and rode out, leaving one more town to a past that would not stay put.
Promise, Nevada is not like other towns. In Promise a man’s face count for nothing, what matters is his money.
No sooner in Promise, Deadman witnesses a killing at the card table.
“That’s my brother Charlie, Charlie Fuller,” Elizabeth says.
“Knew a man in Utah name of Fuller, Pete Fuller.”
“That be my brother too.”
Jacob Marsh been buried too long, time for a resurrection, time came to put Deadman in the ground for good.
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