Guns of the Waste Land

Guns of the Waste Land recasts the legends of King Arthur as an American Western.

Set in the late 19th century outside the West Texas town of Bretton, this first volume tells the story of four men wandering the American desert: Percy Murratt leaves his home to find Sheriff Ardiss Drake and learn more about the kind of man his father was. Meanwhile, two of Ardiss' deputies, Gary Wayne Orkney and his best friend Boris McAllister, scour the wilderness in pursuit of vengeance and justice while the object of their search, Lancaster O'Loch flees for his life and that of his mistress (and Ardiss' wife), Guernica. Together these three tales begin an adventure of chivalry and honor as exciting as it is timeless.

Guns of the Waste Land “impressed the hell out of me with its inventiveness and wonderfully colorful dialogue, […] you may have a genuine classic on your hands.” (T.E.D. Klein, author of Dark Gods & The Ceremonies)

“Leverett Butts is a real talent. His Guns of the Waste Land is an original way to use a genre. I like a guy who has a mad literary streak and walks the wobbly tightrope: so far he's gotten across. This is the first installment in a longer narrative, and I can't wait to read the next if it's as good as the first or even close.” (Richard Monaco, author of the Parsival series)

"Five stars to this ambitious tip of the slouch hat to Arthurian legend. It is often cinematic in scope and does a wonderful job of painting the storied Wild West lawman as a flesh-and-blood, frequently flawed individual. Really, it would do extremely well as a Clint Eastwood-directed film, given his penchant for offbeat, yet highly relatable, characters." (Publishers Daily Reviews)