Revenge of the Mountain Man (The Last Mountain Man) [ABRIDGED] (Audio Cassette)

~ (Author), Doug Van Liew (Narrator)

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Racing home to his Colorado ranch, Smoke Jensen learns that his beloved wife has been shot by a band of outlaws who were hoping to kill him instead, and Jensen vows that he will stop at nothing to make them pay. Reissue. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Audio Cassette
• Publisher: Otis Audio; Abridged edition (October 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1591830028
• ISBN-13: 978-1591830023
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.5 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,789,746 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Old West Mayhem, October 3, 2007

By	Paul Harmon (Brentwood, TN) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Revenge Of The Mountain Man (The Last Mountain Man) (Paperback)

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.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars one of the best, January 7, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Revenge Of The Mountain Man (The Last Mountain Man) (Paperback)

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!

2.0 out of 5 stars Revenge of the Mountain Man, August 7, 2009

By	Joel Tunnah (Brooklyn, NY) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Revenge Of The Mountain Man (The Last Mountain Man) (Paperback)

My first foray into Johnstone's writing, and although it held my interest enough to finish the book I can't give this more than 2 stars.

The Good:
The dialog is quite good, and full of John Wayne style western flavor, although there is not a whole lot of differentiation between the characters' voices. They all pretty much talk the same.

The Bad:
The main character is largely an empty superhero type. The supporting characters are a mixed bag: some 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. Also, strangely for a gunfighter novel, we get to read precious little about the gunfighting. Most of the fighting scenes are vague, drawn from a distance, and provide little or no details on the mechanics of it, or what's going on in the characters' heads. It's, Smoke put a .44 slug in so-and-so before he could even clear leather, and that's it. On to the next scene.

The Ugly:
Smoke Jensen, the most famous gunfighter in the west and a man who wiped out an entire town in the past, pretends to be a whining 'sissy' artist for two-thirds of the book, in order to penetrate the evil town of Dead River. And this ruse works. Right. Because no one notices the guy is cut like a prize fighter, has scars from previous fights, and rides in on a killer (literally) horse? Not believable at all, and the scenes are painful to read. Also the gritty parts are too gritty. Mention of raping children has no place in a western action novel, sorry. Rape and torture is mentioned quite a bit in this book. The author could have been more vague and still got the point across that these were all bad men. He spends many a page covering himself and his main characters with a legal shield for the carnage they create. We don't need to be reminded every twenty pages who is legally cleared to kill. Would an actual Smoke Jensen care if he was deputized? These guys shot his pregnant wife!

I'm going to give Johnstone another chance, but this doesn't bode well.