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Valdez Is Coming (Thorndike Famous Authors) [Large Print] (Hardcover)

by Elmore Leonard (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Thorndike Press; Lrg edition (13 Jun 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0786276916
  • ISBN-13: 978-0786276912
  • Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 14.2 x 2.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 2,604,464 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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No writer chronicles the battles of misfits, underdogs and renegades like Elmore Leonard . . . VALDEZ IS COMING is a stunning stale of morality and justice, as a simple, honest man is transformed into a killer - and begins a long journey of revenge against those who scarred his soul for ever. Elmore Leonard's Western novels stand as some of the most vivid writing of his career. With all of his trademark sharp dialogue and set against a beautifully evoked landscape, this is a classic work taht captures the wild and glorious spirit of the American West. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

About the Author

Elmore Leonard has written more than three dozen books during his highly successful career, and many of his novels have been made into bestselling films. He has been named Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America and lives in Bloomfield Village, Michigan, with his wife Christine. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Hard-boiled Western, 20 Sep 2004
By E. S Winskill (Tacoma, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Valdez Is Coming (Mass Market Paperback)
I'm new to the Western genre. I started with a few L'Amours, then a friend said that Leonard had written Westerns. I hadn't read Leonard yet, and knew only of his crime novels, by reputation, and I did see "Get Shorty" and thought it was great.
So I picked this one up first. It's very fine.
He used to be Roberto Valdez, Apache Hunter (but they don't know that). Now he's Bob Valdez, town constable, condescended-to by the Anglo townsmen. They involve him in an injustice. He seeks to put it right. They laugh at him. Then they try to humiliate them. Then they hurt him. But they should have killed him, because now they all have to die.
This is a revenge tale, always a theme that appeals because it reflects our own revenge fantasies, which if we are honest, we will acknowlege persist beyond adolescence! This is up there with other great revenge stories, from the Count of Monte Christo to the Demon Prince novels of the inimitably great Jack Vance, though of course it is not as monumental as those works.
Valdez is Coming has a very powerful and perfect ending. I read the last 2 or 3 pages several times.
Louis L'Amour is a solid 3-star Western writer; this is praise, not denigration. But as time is short, folks need to know there are many finer Western writers out there. Being introduced to Leonard by this book and by Hombre, I won't be going back to L'Amour until I've finished Leonard, and some others.
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