Mojave Crossing / Sacketts #6 [Mass Market Paperback]

Louis Lamour (Author)

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• Mass Market Paperback
• Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell (July 1982)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0553229990
• ISBN-13: 978-0553229998
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.2 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,566,172 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Occassionally confusing, about the early Sacketts - Tell Sackett, December 27, 2005

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A. Woodley "Patroness, Janeites, the Austen list" (New Zealand) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Sacketts # 6 Mojave Crossing (Paperback)

One of the early Sackett stories, William Tell Sackett is travelling to Los Angeles with a sack of gold to trade for supplies, he intends returning to town with a load of supplies to make a fortune. Only he gets caught up with having to help the oddly named woman, Dorinda Robiseau, with him. She is on the run from someone and needs to get out of town, even if that means a horror crossing of the Mojave.

Tell does his best to help her, but even so they are ambushed and he is left in the open with no horse, no water, no food and no chance of help. Luckily he remembers a local outlaw hideout in hidden valley and manages to get a horse and some help. They've stolen his gold and that is what he wants back - just his gold.

The confusing part of it for me was when he reached Los Angeles - there is complex cross and double-cross thing going on. An elderly man is having his farm foreclosed on and only Tell, a stranger can help. He is a pirate and has a hidden stash of gold but does not want anyone to know where it is. Trouble is, it puts Tell at risk because people now want to torture Tell to get the information out of him. Tell doesn't want anything of it.

The confusing part is that you never know who is double crossing whom and why. The reasons are often unclear - there is definitely more Sackett novels that I'll have to read, I think, to understand this better. There is references to the Trelawney girls back whom, the three branches of the Sackett family and Angie, Tell's probable girlfriend who has not written.

Rollicking good reading.