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Last of the Breed: A Novel Mass Market Paperback – June 1, 1987

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  • Mass Market Paperback: 400 pages
  • Publisher: Bantam; New edition edition (June 1, 1987)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0553280422
  • ISBN-13: 978-0553280425
  • Product Dimensions: 4.2 x 1.1 x 6.9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (666 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #13,837 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 starsNot typical Louis L'Amour
By Joseph H Pierre on June 17, 2001
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The late Louis L'Amour wrote mostly Westerns--specifically about the 'Old West'--for which he is justly famous. I may have read them all, but I hope not. I hope there are a few more out there, somewhere.

This book, however, is different. This is the kind of authentically detailed story that is his hallmark, but it is more modern. It is about U.S. Air Force Major Joe Mack, whose forbears were Sioux Indian. When his experimental aircraft is forced down in the USSR, he is captured, and no one but he and his captors know he is a prisoner. He escapes a prison camp, and is forced to survive the Siberian wilderness in an effort to make it to the Bering Strait, which he will have to cross to get back home. He is pursued relentlessly by a Yakut scout who knows the land intimately. Joe Mack must think like a Sioux to escape.

Louis Dearborn L'Amour (originally Lamoore) lived the lives that he portrayed. He was a roustabout, merchant seaman, boxer, cowboy, logger, miner, and an army officer during WWII in tank destroyers. He was shipwrecked in the West Indies, sailed a dhow on the Red Sea, and circled the earth on merchant ships. He wrote a hundred books, and had more million copy best-sellers than any other author. I was personally desolated by his death. What a glorious man! He was a true troubadour in the original sense.

Joseph H. Pierre
Author of The Road to Damascus: Our Journey Through Eternity
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5.0 out of 5 starsSPOILER ALERT!!!! One of my all time favourite books
By Kali on April 11, 2004
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!!! MAJOR SPOILER ALERT!!!!!

Louis L'Amour has never been one of my favourite authors because most of his books are Westerns but "Last of the Breed" is an exception to my rule simply because it isn't a Western. This is a brilliant novel that is both suspenseful and creative and it is a real shame that a sequel was never done.

Set during the hostilities between the Soviet Union and the USA Joseph "Joe Mack" Makatozi is a man trapped in enemy territory. He is a downed test Pilot who has been captured by the Russians and is seemingly at their mercy in the inhospitable landscape called Siberia; the only inhabited cold Hell in existence.

However Joe Mack isn't your ordinary test pilot. He is part Sioux and in his blood is the will to survive a savage land that was once home to his ancestors. He escapes his prison with the goal of crossing Siberia and making his way across the Bering Straits and into America, something that has not been done by modern man.

Joe Mack finds himself slowly merging with the wilderness, forced to rely on his ancestral abilities to survive the killing cold and elude the constant danger of his determined Soviet pursuers, including a man who is to become his nemesis, a Siberian Native Yakut tracker called Alekhin who knows that in order to trap his quarry he must think and act like a Sioux.

As we follow Joe Mack across the deadly landscape we become aware that he is changing, he is becoming what his ancestors once were thousands of years ago, trackers, hunters, killers, but ultimately survivors.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsA classic novel of escape into the wild
By A Customer on July 16, 2001
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Louis L'Armour is an author of rare quality. His words seem to flow straight from the heart of the wilderness. He can place his readers in the midst of heated gun-fight, or on the icy arctic tundra. He can describe a situation with skill that few authors have mastered.
Out on the cold, desolate plains of Siberia there stood a boy, filled and surrounded by the incredible writing of a man who is close to the ways of the wild. This boy stood watching a Soiux warrior in his journey home. This boy was me. When I read Last of the Breed by Louis L'Amoure, I experienced a feeling I had never felt before. It was a feeling of lonliness, comfort, joy and sorrow. I could feel the cold that Major Joe Mack felt. I could feel his hunger as well as my own as I feverishly read through the last minutes of class before the bell rang for me to go to lunch.
This is a book of capture and escape, a cat and mouse game between a man and his enemies. It has a quality about it that makes you want to keep reading, yet not want to know what imminent danger lies around the next rock, or hillside, or bend in the stream. I loved this book from beginning to end and have read several times as I hope you will too. If you enjoy the outdoors, suspense, survival, or if are just a Louis L'Amour fan, I highly suggest you give this book a try.
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3.0 out of 5 starsA good yarn
By E. S Winskill on August 5, 2004
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This is a good story, deserving neither the overly fulsome praise nor the sour dismissals found in some of the reviews here. I've read it a couple of times over the years, and for many years it was the only L'Amour book I'd read. It's a good survival adventure tale, very servicably written.

Here's a tip: for those who liked this story, check out Dersu Uzala, a Kurosawa movie set in Siberia; the protagonist is an old Siberian hunter and trapper, and you'll get a real flavor of the country and way of life described by L'Amour in Last of the Breed.
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5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

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Published 6 days ago by Carol Tharnish
4.0 out of 5 starsLast of the Breed Audio

Read the book and the story is the same. CD's were of good quality, no sound problems. Would have like an ending note on the CD's so you knew when to change them. Read more

Published 8 days ago by Maury Swoveland
5.0 out of 5 starsOne of the best books I have ever read

An amazing book. Before reading this, I had thought Louis L'Amour only wrote westerns. But this book had everything an adventure book requires. Read more

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Louis' best book.

Published 11 days ago by G. R.
5.0 out of 5 starsA good read

An epic journey by one man against a government, army and country. He fights to live on his terms he is last of his breed.

Published 12 days ago by Frances M. Miller
5.0 out of 5 starsGood read

Enjoyed very much ,looking forward to next book looking forward to my next read. Love this group of books thanks

Published 14 days ago by Mae Elliott
5.0 out of 5 starsA DIFFERENT KIND OF LOUIS L'AMOUR MODERN DAY STORY

This was a book I had read rears ago and loaned it but never was returned - I was anxious to read it again and found it just as 'don't want to put it down' as in the first time I... Read more

Published 22 days ago by Connie Madott
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The end makes you want to continue on.

Published 26 days ago by jim Schiller
4.0 out of 5 starsFour Stars

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Published 27 days ago by fred Messinger
5.0 out of 5 starsGreat louis

Not your typical Louis lamour but this is a great book. Great adventure to get lost in.

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