The Ghosts of Watt O'Hugh

Watt O'Hugh III is a self-made man, Civil War vet, Time Roamer, former orphan of the New York slums and dime novel hero of the lost, magical West of the 1870s - and his riotous adventures mark one of the most original literary fantasy novels in recent memory. When O'Hugh returns to New York as the star of a Wild West show, he thinks his ship has come in. But that's before he wakes up in a Wyoming penitentiary facing a murder charge, a corrupt Wall Street banker turned outlaw and a 2000-year-old Chinese mystery that could change the world forever. All he really wants is to woo Lucy Billings again, the woman he loved and lost in a gilded New York City before the War .... The Ghosts of Watt O'Hugh was Named to Kirkus Reviews' "Best of 2011," and The Boston Phoenix calls it "a rip-snorting, mind-boggling novel ... There's a lot going on in this teeming tome!"