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by E. V. Thompson E. V. Thompson’s tales of Cornish adventure and romance have been entertaining readers for years. Now he turns his versatile hand to something new—the western genre—and gives it his own special flavor. Wesley Curnow leaves his native Cornwall to go and work in the mines in Missouri, following his uncle who is already there. En route, he falls in with some illustrious company in the shape of Marshall Aaron Berryman, a respected veteran of the recent civil war. Wesley finds himself in the thick of all sorts of adventures involving a gang of villains on a riverboat and learns how to shoot a revolver. Berryman is keen for him to become his deputy, thinking mining a poor sort of job, but Wesley is adamant that he wants to join his uncle. But nothing is going to go quite according to plan... I love westerns, and this is the type of western that might have made a great film back when they were being made. It has all the ingredients—the lingering echoes of the civil war, riverboats filled with gamblers, mountain men, a railroad journey, shoot outs and gunfighters. Plenty happens to keep the pages turning, keeping me reading late into the night, unable to put it down—rare praise from me who find many books longer than their stories! Towards the end it begins to become rather obvious that Thompson is setting up for a string of other books and this is the first volume in a series. Some of the events seemed a little contrived, guaranteed to set the stage for more adventures, but nevertheless, the thought of more westerns like this has me looking forward to reading them. A very enjoyable treat. |
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