The Slavers (G K Hall Large Print Book Series) [Large Print] [Hardcover]

F. M. Parker (Author)

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Mexico in 1877, on the verge of Civil War, is the setting of Parker's latest western. The caudillos , large landowners with private armies, are poised to overthrow the government of President Porfirio Diaz. When Ken Larrway, a young American studying under a famed dueling master in Mexico City, kills the two sons of Ramos Zaldivar, leader of the caudillos , Zaldivar vows revenge. Larrway flees for his life, trying to traverse the dangerous 1100 miles to the U.S. border. Evading his pursuers, members of Zaldivar's private army, he finally takes refuge in the community of Janos, settled by Mormons who left Utah after the U.S. banned polygamy in 1862. Here he realizes that he must return to confront the caudillo . A rather sleazy subplot deals with white women who are kidnapped and sold into slavery and prostitution. Parker ( The Shadow Man ) shows little subtlety in character depiction, but he does manage to convey the atmosphere of those violent, revolutionary times.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From Library Journal

The setting is Mexico in 1877; military chieftains roam and ravage the countryside. Zaldivar, the worst and the wealthiest, plans to wrest control of the government from President Diaz. Much of his wealth is gained from kidnapping and selling into slavery white women from settlements of polygamous refugees from the United States. Ken Larrway, a young gringo, incurs his enmity by killing his son and flees along El Camino Real, leaving a trail of corpses. He is reluctant to kill and quick to aid others in need. The author describes gun battles, terrain, and wildlife equally well, the first with enthusiasm, the last two with love. An exciting story with solid historical basis.
- Sister Avila, Acad. of the Holy Angels, Minneapolis
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 337 pages
• Publisher: G K Hall & Co (October 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0816154821
• ISBN-13: 978-0816154821
• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 6.5 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,568,248 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

My name is Fearl M. Parker. I write under the name of F. M. Parker

I have written 20 novels. The rights for print version have reverted back to me and I have published then as ebooks on Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Apple and some publishers in England.

My early years were lived in Ohio. At 16 I dropped out of school and went to work in a factory making door and windows. Becoming tried of eating sawdust, I started hitchhiking west. Ran out of money in Colorado and worked as a bellhop in Estes Park. After a few days and with a few coins jingling in my pocket, I caught a ride north to Montana where I herded sheep near Miles City. Tiring of that, I jumped onto my thumb and rode it west to Seattle, Washington. There I tasted the salt water and saw all the warships sailing off to war in the Pacific. This was 1945 during World War 11. Again I jumped upon my thumb, pointed it to the east, and rode it to Ohio. Where I talked my mother into signing me into the navy. Well, I wasn't yet 17 the minimum age, and so the navy put me up in a hotel for a day and them swore me in. I spent 4 years that first time, most of it aboard the USS Timbalier. I was called back to active duty for a year and a half during the Korean War in the early 1950's.

Earned a degree in geology, working the night shift for Chrysler Airtemp and going to college during the day. Hired on with a mining company prospecting for uranium in Utah. Next, I worked for an oil company drilling oil wells in Kansas. THEN my luck really struck and I took employment with the Bureau of Land Management, a bureau within the Department of the Interior. This was the perfect job for a fellow with an itchy foot. While working up through the ranks, I was in California, New Mexico, Utah, Washington D.C. and Oregon. I wrote my first book, Skinner, while in Oregon. In Oregon I was district manager. In that position, and with a large staff of specialist, oversaw the multiple use of five million acres of Public Domain land, a land area larger than some of our states. Following retirement from the Bureau, I became an environmental consultant. Today I live in Virginia and writes novels.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Great Author, November 19, 2008

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Michael C. Bowling "mibowl" (greenup, KY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Slavers (Signet) (Paperback)

Great author, I feel that he is the best western writer since Louis Lamour in the western series. He writes with stronger characters than Louis Lamour, but each of them have their weakness also. I personally feel the book the "Nighthawk" is one of his best books. Read it to see if you like his style as this most closely resembles Louis Lamour.