- Hardcover: 160 pages
- Publisher: Robert Hale Library H/Backs (31 July 2008)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0709084560
- ISBN-13: 978-0709084563
- Product Dimensions: 18.4 x 12.8 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 4,234,539 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Sheriff Sam Hammond was nudging fifty, conscious of his years and sometimes wondering just why he'd become a lawman in the first place. Then the troubles really began. First, he narrowly escaped with his life after a moonlight gun battle with a trio of rustlers. Then the abrasive range detective Herb Hopkirk rode in. Gun-handy, Hopkirk shot dead a rash cowpoke, crippled Sam's young deputy, Clint Freeman, and pestered Miss Sarah, pretty daughter of rancher John Snyder. A man-hungry widow and a bunch of newspaper cuttings about a mysterious bank robber dubbed Dick Slick added to Sam's headaches. Was it time for him to quit the peace-officer business before he wound up dead?
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Sheriff Sam Hammond is nearing fifty and starting to feel tired of wearing a gun and considers retirement. However his plans are ruined when Loraine Delrose turns up in his office demanding he do something about a team of rustlers that have been working her ranch. Sam is taken with the woman, a one time opera singer now ranch owner, and realises that he has little choice than to investigate the rustling.
Leaving his deputy, Clint Freeman, in charge he goes off to keep an eye on the ranch but trouble isn't far away and by the end of the first couple of chapters the bullets have started to fly and both Sam and his deputy are left injured.
Further problems come when it turns out the man who shot and injured Clint is a vicious bounty hunter, or as he likes to call himself a detective, who is in town looking for the bandit the press have dubbed Dick Slick.
"In 1873 the Supreme Court had defined the rights
of bounty hunters as agents of bail bondsmen, authorized
to deliver up miscreants who'd skipped. They
could pursue the subject into another state or territory
and enforce the original imprisonment. They
could arrest the wanted man on the Sabbath. If
necessary, they had the right to break and enter a
house."
Soon the Sheriff finds problems heaped upon deadly problem and the author keeps the reader both puzzled and thrilled until the final shocking denouncement.
With the western virtually invisible in the book shops it is good that high quality writing is still being produced. Chap O'Keefe is a western veteran and he delivers the goods here in this all action western. The prose is straight to the point with little preamble and the brevity of these novels make a refreshing change from all the bloated tomes in the bookshops. (Surely not every book needs to be the size of a house brick?)With a novel of this size it takes skilful plotting and deft character control - O'Keefe is a master of both.
Leaving his deputy, Clint Freeman, in charge he goes off to keep an eye on the ranch but trouble isn't far away and by the end of the first couple of chapters the bullets have started to fly and both Sam and his deputy are left injured.
Further problems come when it turns out the man who shot and injured Clint is a vicious bounty hunter, or as he likes to call himself a detective, who is in town looking for the bandit the press have dubbed Dick Slick.
"In 1873 the Supreme Court had defined the rights
of bounty hunters as agents of bail bondsmen, authorized
to deliver up miscreants who'd skipped. They
could pursue the subject into another state or territory
and enforce the original imprisonment. They
could arrest the wanted man on the Sabbath. If
necessary, they had the right to break and enter a
house."
Soon the Sheriff finds problems heaped upon deadly problem and the author keeps the reader both puzzled and thrilled until the final shocking denouncement.
With the western virtually invisible in the book shops it is good that high quality writing is still being produced. Chap O'Keefe is a western veteran and he delivers the goods here in this all action western. The prose is straight to the point with little preamble and the brevity of these novels make a refreshing change from all the bloated tomes in the bookshops. (Surely not every book needs to be the size of a house brick?)With a novel of this size it takes skilful plotting and deft character control - O'Keefe is a master of both.
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