Agent: Kirby Kim, Janklow & Nesbit Assoc. Part coming-of-age story, part adventure, and part gangster melodrama, the elements don’t totally come together, but the nostalgic atmosphere and exciting flying scenes transport the reader to an early, adventurous time in aviation history. Published in 2015, Painted Horses has quickly become a classic among those who love Western literary fiction. The story takes place against the background of Amelia Earhart’s around-the-world flight, which figures somewhat mystically in the novel’s airborne climax. Malcolm Brooks is a Montana-based author best known for his epic novel 'Painted Horses,' a sweeping, large-scale tale of life in the American West in the 1950s. In doing so, he unknowingly places himself, Annelise, and Yakima in jeopardy with the gangsters who are desperate to retrieve the watch. Things become complicated when Huck finds a dead body and removes from the corpse a special Longines Lindbergh flight watch. Free-spirited Annelise dives right in to Huck’s project, as does blacksmith Yakima McKee. He receives unexpected help when his cousin, 18-year-old Annelise Clutterbuck, arrives for a stay, her parents thinking it best to put physical distance between her and her aviator boyfriend. The year is 1937, and in Big Coulee, Mont., 14-year-old Houston “Huck” Finn is building his own airplane based on plans he found. Brooks ( Painted Horses) tells an appealing story about a boy who longs to fly.
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