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Wayne D. Dundee
Beat to a Pulp
Amazon Digital Services
January 4, 2012 / ASIN: B006TMY8TM
Fiction/Western
Kindle e-book
Amazon
Reviewed
by Beverly J. Rowe
Cash Laramie
is a fierce, determined lawman, Arapaho-raised and as tough as they
come. He arrives in the town of Silver Gulch on the trail of a fugitive
from justice, Lobo Ames. It doesn't take Cash long to find his quarry,
and the action accelerates to fever pitch.
Life in the mining town is unbearable for two of its prostitutes,
since the mine is going broke, and the saloon where they worked
has burned to the ground. They decide to go with Cash to find a
better life, and he agrees to take them along. Some of the miners
feel very possessive of the women and want to keep them at any cost.
Then there is the bounty hunter who also has his crosshairs on Lobo
Ames and doesn't want to give up the reward he had anticipated.
The chase is on, as Cash and the girls, with Lobo in custody, attempt
to make it over the pass ahead of the pursuers.
To make matters worse, a sudden winter storm catches them in the
mountain pass. The pursuers and the pursued are cold, hungry, and
desperate. Lead flies, and everything that can go wrong, does go
wrong.
This is an entertaining, fast read, if somewhat predictable. This
character, Cash Laramie, was originated by Edward A. Grainger (aka
David Cranmer), but Dundee does a fine job of rounding him out.
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