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Fifteen-year-old Henry Appleton lives on an isolated farm in Nelson, New Zealand. He devours dime novels about American cowboys and dreams of having his own rifle and becoming a gunslinger like Wild Bill Hickok. But his daydreaming becomes a terrifying reality when two strangers ride into town: the physician Zephaniah Smith, who is hunting down his wife’s killer ... and the ruthless highwayman Richard Burgess who plans to rob a bank with his gang. Over the next three days, Henry is threatened, kidnapped, shot and left for dead in a riverbed. When the gang murders a group of travellers from the goldfields, the injured Henry is determined to bring them to justice.

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John Evan Harris is an Auckland writer, journalist, and former rock musician. For many years he was a TV producer, and founded Greenstone TV. His interest in the Maungatapu Murders (which form the background of The Physician’s Gun) was sparked when he produced the award-winning historical re-enactment series Epitaph for TVNZ.

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