Acclaimed author pens non-Fiction novel

Local author Thomas Cobb is known for his success with the book Crazy Heart, which was also made into a critically-acclaimed film.

In Cobb's newest book, With Blood in Their Eyes , he takes on a historical event that tells the tale of the American West.

Cobb joined The Rhode Show to talk more about the book.

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On February 10, 1918, John Power woke to the sound of bells and horses’ hooves. He was sharing a cabin near the family mine with his brother Tom and their father Jeff; hired man Tom Sisson was also nearby. Gunfire erupted, and so began the day when the Power brothers engaged the Graham County Sheriff’s Department in Arizona’s deadliest gunfight. What seems at first a simple tale of crime and pursuit takes on much greater meaning and complexity as the story traces the past lives of the main characters and interconnects them—all leading back to the deadly confrontation that begins the book.