In The Mysterious Rider, Bill Belound's foster daughter Columbine agrees to marry his son Jack out of love for her foster father. Jack is a coward, a drunkard, a gambler and a thief, and Columbine actually loves the cowboy Wilson Moore.
The Man Who Fell to Earth is a 1963 science fiction novel by American author Walter Tevis about an alien who lands on Earth looking for a way to transport his people to Earth from their home planet, which is suffering from a severe drought.
Between the letter and the head, the novel "Good news, bad news" turns the rules of the spy game upside down with an intriguing and tense story full of twists and turns until the very end.