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Rex Linn
Itinerant lawmen Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch return in the gritty new installment of the New York Times best-selling series.
Appaloosa, the hometown of Territorial Marshals Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch, continues to prosper, but with prosperity comes a slew of new trouble: carpetbaggers, gamblers, migrants, peddlers, drifters, thieves, and whores, all boiling in a cauldron of excess and greed. And there's a new menace in town: a wealthy, handsome easterner - and the owner of Appaloosa's new casino - Boston Bill Black.
Boston Bill is flashy and bigger than life. He's a prankster and a notorious womanizer, and with eight notches on the handle of his Colt, he's rumored quick on the draw. When he finds himself wanted for a series of murders, he quickly vanishes. Cole and Hitch locate and arrest him, but Boston Bill escapes once again. Another murder sets the duo on his trail, eventually taking them back to Appaloosa - where one woman in particular may - or may not - prove to be the apple of Boston Bill's eye.
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“Knott ... adds a new wrinkle here with a damn fine mystery running parallel to the western story.... Fine reading for western fans.” (Booklist)
“This is the most satisfying of Knott’s Cole-Hitch tales, with a shocking double-twist ending.” (The Sacramento Bee)
"Westerns need atmosphere as much as story, and Knott has a knack for six-gun verisimilitude, sketching the land and summer heat, the horses and the shopkeepers. Knott’s especially good with the prototypical Old West marshal, Virgil Cole, ‘perfectly present in the here and now,’ every inch stoic lawman.... His tale gallops along without confusing readers new to the series ... A darn good way to pass an afternoon.” (Kirkus Reviews)
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Great
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The main reason this story is so easy to listen to is Rex Linn. His voice brought me into the story. I wish he would narrate more.
A Great Book
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You can see it in the reviews for the last one, The Bridge. I didn't read it because of the universally bad and weak reviews. The other challenge is original narrator, Titus Welliver, had to drop in order to concentrate on his role as Harry Bosch. Rex Linn took a book to get used to.
This time, it seems that Knott has earned his spurs and Linn has hit his stride.
In his performance this time, Linn is more believable as Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch. He has their pacing in a more believable flow and is strong in differentiating the host of one-time and multiple appearance characters. Five stars for Linn in this role.
Knott's plot incorporates a series of twists and turns that cleanly put together the pieces to make it obvious the accused killer is not -- but his clues and twists don't provide enough in the way of hints to actually try to outguess the actual culprit.
The twist at the ending is one of the better outcomes in the series. At least Knott has dropped whoring by Cole's wife Allie, but (spoiler alert), he still has to have Allie at threat of death by the antagonist. That one subplot is getting a little old. Even though it has a tie to the actual perpetrator, it's not a necessary part of the plot.
Overall, it's well worth the listen.
Knott beats the house with this one
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Reader
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Excellent story. full of surprises<br />
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I guess the story was okay, but it was not Virgil Cole or Everett Hitch. It lacked the one thing that makes the series so unique, namely the coolness of Virgil Cole as a gunhand doing what gunhands do. I am disappointed.
Almost... But something is missing.
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great story.
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Decent but not great
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Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch are back at it!
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Bad
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