Dragon Teeth by Michael Crichton (2017) William Johnson is a spoiled college student in 1876 Philadelphia. His life is easy and free. His family are very wealthy and tend to over-indulge their wayward son his excesses. But great pride is still there in the uber-rich, perhaps even more so, and it’s this weakness that corrals […]
House of the Rising Sun by James Lee Burke Hackberry Holland is a man out of his time. He was a Texas Ranger, involved in many gun battles with the Mexican Army as well as the indigenous people of North America. But it’s 1918 and time has moved on. The old ways employed by men […]
Taken from the classic western, Lonesome Dove, the scene shows the way in which Woodrow F. Call deals with a thug who attacks his son, Newt. It’s a great little snippet from a great movie (and book). Tommy Lee Jones and Robert Duvall were at their very best in this film. https://youtu.be/FmENUHILJpM – If you […]
The Lonesome Dove western is one of the greats of the genre. There are many memorable scenes. The following is one such. In this we see Jake being caught by his former comrades and being hung for having thrown in his lot with a ruthless gang of murderers and cut-throats. It’s a poignant scene for […]
Cimarron Rose by James Lee Burke This is the first book in the highly popular Billy Bob Holland series, set in the Texas borderlands in contemporary times. Ole Billy Bob is a defence lawyer, once a public prosecutor, once a Texas Ranger. He has a tendency to carry his Ranger skills and attitudes into his […]
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy This novel, set in both Mexico and the US in the mid-eighteenth century, has been lauded quite a bit since its publication in 1985. It centres around the life of the Kid, a fourteen year old boy born in 1833, in Tennessee, who leaves a motherless home in search of […]
Shots Fired by C.J. Box This short story collection is centred upon the US West and Mid-western regions, primarily in the states of Wyoming, Montana and South Dakota, and the people to be found there. C.J. Box is the author of the popular Joe Pickett series, also set in the same area. Pickett appears in […]
‘The Wolf Road‘ by Beth Lewis What a feckin’ great book. It could be classed as pseudo-chick lit. as the lead protagonist is a kick-ass female, and other strong women appear throughout a story set in a post-apocalyptic north America that resembles the Wild West. It’s kinda like Calamity Jane meets The Road. We follow […]
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