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Fiction. Western. Thriller. Historical Fiction. HTML: USA Today bestselling Author: The saga of Falcon MacCallister�??wanderer, lawman, heir to a family that raised him on courage, vigilance, and gunsmoke . . . This is no day to die In Sorrento, Texas, there is only one law: the hangman's law. Right now the condemned waits for his last meal in a cramped jail cell. But Falcon MacCallister will not go quietly to the gallows . . . Falcon was called to Sorrento by a crusading newspaper reporter trying to expose a conspiracy of greed and corruption�??with innocent men dying at the end of a court-ordered rope. As acting US Marshal, Falcon quickly makes some very dangerous enemies. Then he himself is sentenced to hang. But in twenty-four hours he'll be out of jail, out on the streets, and shooting lead against a small army of gunmen. Because he knows the three men who have taken over Sorrento. And he sentences them to death�??the MacCallister brand . .… (more)
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The scene: a (West?) Texas town called Sorrento, presumably in the late 19th century,
There follows a scene with four drunken sheriff’s deputies, one of whom shoots an innocent traveling salesman – not in a fight, but through sheer drunken incompetence. Of course the corrupt sheriff does nothing. OK, we get the picture, the sheriff is evil. But just in case we haven’t figured this out, he is also ugly, having lost the eyelid and half the eyebrow over his left eye to a knife, presumably in a fight – although I can’t rule out an incompetent drunken surgeon…
On page 12, one of the townsmen uses the word “facilitates.” Er…
On page 16, we are introduced to an evil albino gunman, who proceeds, six pages later, to kill a young cowboy for no reason other than to demonstrate his evil nature.
On page 17, we have an interesting demonstration of arithmetic: “There were nearly a dozen customers in the saloon; three of them were at the bar, the other three sharing a table.” I looked at this passage three times, sighed, and went on.
On page 26, the hero kills the evil gunman by jerking him through an open second story doorway, allowing him to fall through the banisters and break his neck on the piano below. Everyone cheers.
On page 27, being in the mood for a Western, not a slapstick comedy, I went back to Louis L’Amour.
Rating: one and a half stars (half star added for unintentional humor).
Being a big fan of Westerns, particularly the great Louis L'amour and Elmer
In the town of Sorrento, Texas, there are bad
Falcon is there to set things right.
Received through the early readers group and was interesting read. Part of a series that has intrigued me to read more.