Thawed Out and Fed Up

Sam Bonhambad husband, deadbeat dad, and possible criminal on the run from the lawwanders out of modern-day East Texas into an ersatz Wild West boomtown created for a movie that never happened. And when Sam strikes a blow against the gangsters whove been terrorizing the town, the locals look to him to save them. Hes no hero, but hes stumbled upon someone who is: John Wayne. But the John Wayne of this story is not the stalwart lawman of Hollywood filmshes a seventy-two-year-old man who had himself cryogenically frozen. Hes weak, bald, frailand unrecognizable to everyone but Sam.In The Dukes defrosted state, hes not entirely himself. In fact, he believes hes actually Ethan Edwards, the character he played in The Searchers, one of Waynes most beloved films. Ethan or Duke or Marion Morrison, at his side Sam learns how to be a man, and a heroand a pretty good shot! As he takes on the Old West gang of thugs, he finds that he might have become a family man at last. But back in the real world, someone has his eye on Sams wife, and if Sam doesnt get back soon, the results could be devastating.