Comanchero Rendezvous (Linford Western Library) [Large Print] [Paperback]

Mark Bannerman (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 2001 | Series: Linford Western Library

After the Civil War, John Willard was assigned special duty by the president himself which was to take him to the Staked Plains in Texas. The region was repellent and menacing, a land of death inhabited by Indians and outlaws.'

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Product Details

• Paperback: 280 pages
• Publisher: Ulverscroft Large Print Books (February 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0708959369
• ISBN-13: 978-0708959367
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 4.8 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)

More About the Author

Mark Bannerman is the pseudonym of Anthony C Lewing who was born at Colchester, Essex. He was educated at Kings College School, Wimbledon, and served for thirty-five years in the British Army before retiring to pursue his great interest - writing about the Old West. He has travelled extensively in the settings of many of his stories and owns a large reference library on the various aspects of the subject. He has also written a novel about the English West: The Cornish Woman. He lives in Ash Vale, Surrey, with his French-born wife Francoise.

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5.0 out of 5 stars An author worth looking out for, June 29, 2008

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This review is from: Comanchero Rendezvous (Linford Western Library) (Paperback)

Major John Willard is sent on a special mission by the president himself. This will take him to the Staked Plains of Texas, a region both repellent and menacing, a land of death inhabited by Indians and outlaws. Well hidden within its wildest depths is the stronghold of an embittered band of ex-Confederates. Even though the Civil War is over they continue to fight on by inciting the Indians to attack the Federal Army. Willard's mission is to bring peace to the region.

This author doesn't believe in making life easy for his hero, even before the mission has hardly begun the complications set in. It seems that people other than the president have an interest in the outcome of Willard's mission such as Edward Sanderson and his mysterious jade-eyed daughter Lauretta and soon he's plunged into a world of dark secrets that make this book compelling reading.

Willard isn't the perfect hero either; he makes mistakes, bad mistakes, which put both his mission and life on the line more than once. It's also good to see that the usual hero meets girl and they fall in love and live happily ever after doesn't turn out that way which added to the elements of surprise and twists and turns of the story.

Interesting to see that the author includes quite a lot of wildlife in his descriptive paragraphs, such as moths and bats, something that many authors seem to overlook.

My first book from this author and definitely not my last.