"A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.” Franz Kafka Gary Francis Power was born in Ireland in August 1971. He grew up in Dublin and now lives in Galway. He has lived and worked throughout the USA and Latin America. Fastest Draw, his first novel, is a Western/Deep South adventure with a Southern Gothic sensibility. The screenplay for Fastest Draw was recommended for the short list of the Dublin International Film festival, DIFF. An early draft of the novel came fifth in the 2013 American Gems Literary Contest. Fastest Draw is illustrated with a map, and eighteen drawings by the author. Praise for the Screenplay from DIFF: A joy to read, funny, original, vivid in its character, story and its sense of place and time. Fastest-Draw-Gary-Power-ebook #fastestdraw garyfpower #Southern-literary #southern-gothic ISBN=9780993407901