The Lawless Frontier - Softcover

The Lawless Frontier

Paperback. Zustand: Good. 304 pages. After a successful rescue mission, Myles Adams, an officer for the U.S. War D epartment, and his partner Stewart Cook find themselves on the run from Jorge Tr evino, a vicious bandito, who introduces them to the horrors of the Mexican fron tier. Original. Editorial Reviews Review A hard-bitten tale of sacrifice in th e Wild West. The spirit of old John Wayne movies is alive and well in this rou gh-and-tumble western. Denmon takes all the conventions inherent in the traditio nal horse opera and manages to flesh out a plausible, articulate action novel wi th a brisk, satisfying pace. The book is set during the last bloody gasp of the Old West, during the early years of the 1900s. Pancho Villa and his minions both terrify and inspire the peasants of northern Mexico as the revolution threatens to devolve into civil war. Into this conflagration enters stalwart Stewart Cook , a wandering caballero whose fianc? e, Alexia Garcia, is lost behind enemy l ines. Stewart may not be much of a rescuer by himself, but he's tough as nails, determined and backed up by a first-class partner with menace to spare: Myles Ad ams is a classic western hero straight out of the old serials, a lantern-jawed, steely-eyed gunfighter with all the verbal dazzle of Gary Cooper. In fact, the l aconic cowpokes do much more talking than shooting, but only after a sudden, bru tal gunfight between the partners and some banditos kicks off the action. By the time Myles and Stewart ride into Santiago, Mexico, to mount a jailbreak of Alex ia and her entire family, they've managed to enrage Jorge Trevino, one immoral, pestilent bastard, who's figured out that there's more money to be made in plund ering the war-ravaged populace than in fighting the war itself. Trevino also hol. Artikel-Nr. 511j

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