Colt Lightning (Gunsmoke Western) [Large Print] [Hardcover]

Tim Champlin (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 176 pages
• Publisher: Gunsmoke Westerns (November 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 075408194X
• ISBN-13: 978-0754081944
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,719,559 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Lively ,episodic Western, April 4, 2006

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F. J. Harvey "Cricket ,country music and a go... (Birmingham England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Colt Lightning (Hardcover)

While a perfectly adequate stand alone book ,this does feature a character used in other Tim Champlin novels -the former athlete ,baseball player,and wrestler Jay McGraw .Originally an Iowa man he has turned his back on taking over his father's brick making business in favour of a life of adventure out West.When the book opens that life has become a mite too adventurous -he is on the run from Sheriff Dawson and his thuggish deputy Taggart ,having been arrested on a trumped up manslaughter charge .He is helped to escape his pursuers by Walter Hyde ,an elderly former slave and finds work alongside Hyde on a horse ranch owned by Mcpherson .He soon feels at home with the job and his new workmates ,a gregarious and personable crew ,and earns his employers gratitude by rescuing his daughter from marauding Apaches .
He narrowly evades capture a second time at the hands of Taggart fleeing to Tombstone where he takes up his former trade of athlete and becomes a fight manager for the local saloonkeeper in a bare knuckle brawl with the fearsome local champion.
Yet he still cannot wholly evade his pursuers who track him down ,and in the process he makes an unwelcome discovery about Mcpherson ,his previous employer

There is lots of action but the various elements of the story do not quite gell for me and it does feel like a bunch of short stories welded together to form a novel.This is not to take away from the liveliness of the writing and briskness of narrative and the result is an enjoyable genre piece that Western readers will probably enjoy