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The Great Depression has brought with it hard times like nobody has ever seen. It's the era of gangsters, G-Men, hobos, and soup lines. Indeed, the future looks as dark as an Okie dust storm, at least to those old enough to know better. Two young lovers, Claude and Myra, by chance or fate, set out to get rich quick or die trying. Being good comes easy to some, but the trick to being bad is living to spend the loot. Along the back roads and byways of America, this star-crossed pair will become as famous as Bonnie and Clyde -- if lawmen in three states and a Dallas road gang don't get them first. The rain stopped and the stock market crashed, but dreams can still come true . . . if you hold your gun steady enough, and if you don't flinch when you look the Devil in the eye.
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Claude Miller, son of a rural Oklahoma sheriff, has little on his mind other than bagging another squirrel for dinner. He abandons his hunt when he happens across a couple of bank robbers. Well, the bad guy is a bit slow on the draw, and Claude drops him with his squirrel rifle. The other outlaw is, well, considerably better looking and has a bag filled with $10,000. A new partnership is quickly formed, Claude and Myra. She has criminal connections in Dallas, and Claude is keen to leave the Dust Bowl behind him. Diamond Joe is the Dallas crime boss who will supply the muscle for Claude and Myra's next series of robberies, but the crew he supplies is dysfunctional, even for career criminals. The jobs go bad, people die, and the law, including Claude's father, are closing in. This is an entertaining Depression-era adventure with echoes of Bonnie and Clyde, without the grisly finale. These engaging young crooks never hurt the good guys and somehow manage to reduce the villain population in the course of their travels. Good fun for western fans.--Lukowsky, Wes Copyright 2015 Booklist
