This is a book I wish I’d never read. It haunts me to this day. I was up way past my bed time to get to the end. I felt I owed the characters that, to stay with them to the bitter end. Sounds weird but true readers will understand.
I felt that way with Woodrow Call on his way from Montana to Texas with the body of Gus McCrea - the book version, of course. Or the way we all stayed up through the night making Mr Wilbarger comfortable through his last hours