Men trapped outside their times—it was the great theme of Sam Peckinpah’s best movies, and Brad Smith makes it his own in his first-rate novel, The Return of Kid Cooper. In 1910, Nate Cooper is freed from the state prison at Deer Lodge, Montana, after three decades of confinement on a wrongful murder conviction. He’s an old-school cowboy who is at


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