An alternate cover edition can be found here and here. Written in vivid prose and a Southern Gothic style. Fastest Draw begins in Georgia 1932. When a white writer overhears an old black man trying to sell a coin. He wonders how did the old man come to own a coin, which was never circulated? How is it possible he hated the man who designed the coin before ever meeting him? Intrigued, the writer gets the old man to tell his story which begins in Texas 1875. Meet Luke Sprague, a super-fast Anglo sketch artist inspired by the racial caricatures of Harper’s weekly magazine. Broke and on the run Luke persuades Abe Brown, the coin seller, to help him get to Washington D.C., where he is required to design a coin, and Abe is long overdue after a fruitless search for his mother. The duo are soon thwarted by forces of nature, man, and perhaps even … the devil himself.