True Grit

True Grit
Bok av Charles Portis
There is no knowing what lies in a man's heart. On a trip to buy ponies, Frank Ross is killed by one of his own workers. Tom Chaney shoots him down in the street for a horse, $150 cash, and two Californian gold pieces. Ross's unusually mature and single-minded fourteen-year-old daughter Mattie travels to claim his body, and finds that the authorities are doing nothing to find Chaney. Then she hears of Rooster - a man, she's told, who has grit - and convinces him to join her in a quest into dark, dangerous Indian territory to hunt Chaney down and avenge her father's murder.
Mattie 14 år vill hämnas sin fars död och tar hjälp av en alkoholiserad sheriff. En berättelse om tapperhet hämnd i vilda Western. Den finns på svenska under titeln VEDERGÄLLNINGEN och boken var jättespännande.