Customer Reviews

Revenge of the Mountain Man

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Don't read this book....unless you're prepared to read the ton of other
books in the "Smoke Jensen and Preacher" series. This author writes a book
before breakfast and another just before dinner. They're plentiful and
highly addictive. Suspend belief and enjoy.

Smoke Jensen, in particular, shoots or fist fights around a hundred
hard cases per book and they all highly deserve the mayhem he delivers.
In spite of this high fiction (most famous old West gunfighters only
killed 3 or 4 men in their entire lives) you'll soldier on with the
series because Smoke Jensen is the stuff heros are made of and the
writing is crisp and moving.

Just don't say you weren't warned when you find that you spent your whole
summer (or winter) in a comfy chair with 50 or so of these read books
strewn around you.

i have read and reread most of this series. this is one of my favorites. it shows some ingenuity and keeps moving right 'till the end. anyone familiar with the series will enjoy the many little jokes in it. enjoy!

Revenge Of The Mountain Man barely held my interest enough to finish the book, and I can't give it more than 2 stars.

The dialog is decent, John Wayne-esque; although there is not a whole lot of differentiation between the characters' voices. They all talk the same. Smoke Jensen, the main character, is largely an empty superhero type. The supporting characters are a mixed bag: some more fleshed out and real, like Sally Jensen; others, like her family for example, are cartoonish and cliched. The descriptions of their actions read like a tv script from a 60's western comedy. There is almost no description of what's going on in the characters' heads.
The plot is absurd. Smoke Jensen, the most famous gunfighter in the west and a man who wiped out an entire outlaw town in the past, pretends to be a whining 'sissy' artiste for two-thirds of the book, in order to penetrate the evil town of Dead River. Somehow this ruse works, and no one notices the guy is built like a prize fighter, has scars from previous fights, and rides in on a trained killer horse? Not believable at all, and the scenes are painful to read. Also the gritty parts are too gritty. Johnstone seems to have a need to include sexual violence in his novels. He could have been more vague and still got the point across that these were all bad men. I would not let children read any of his books.

This book was a gift for someone who is a non-reader. He started with the first book in the series and is now reading all of them. He literally can't put these books down!

Condition was as stated when we bought the book. Very good and proud to have it. Have finally finished the complete set. Thanks to all for your help.