White Lights Roar: A Western Story [Large Print] [Hardcover]

Tim Champlin (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 6, 2004

In 1916, thousands of Krag rifles disappeared in New Mexico. In fact, the entire train carrying them vanished into the desert without a trace. James Whitlaw, the railroad dispatcher, was implicated in their disappearance. Whitlaw is in New Mexico in forced retirement, taking flying lessons in a Jenny bi-plane from an Army pilot. But that isn't his primary reason for being on the violent Mexican border . . .

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When a load of highly prized Krag rifles disappears from James Whitlaw's train line, management needs a fall guy and decides--with no proof--that Whitlaw was responsible. He desperately wants to find the rifles to clear his name. Tommy Gasheen, a volunteer in the Irish Republican Brotherhood, also wants the rifles to arm his group in its ongoing struggle against the occupying Brits. The two are thrown together after a raid across the Arizona border by Pancho Villa's army. Gasheen and Whitlaw each has his own reasons for finding the weaponry, and they decide their odds are better as a team; they will settle the fate of the guns after they find them. Champlin, an accomplished western author, takes a particularly lawless time in American history and uses it as a backdrop for a character-driven adventure in which personal vindication is at odds with more significant issues of freedom and revolution. This is more than a western and should appeal to all historical-fiction readers. Wes Lukowsky
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Product Details

• Hardcover: 336 pages
• Publisher: Thorndike Press; 1 edition (October 6, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0786269219
• ISBN-13: 978-0786269211
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.7 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,639,598 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Light Entertainment, March 21, 2004

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D. Smith (Alexandria, VA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Five Star First Edition Westerns - White Lights Roar (Hardcover)

Not being a big Western reader (other than some Zane Grey books-on-tape), I picked this up at the library based on the cover. It was a quick, entertaining read - it just seemed a little sparse.