Review: Fine New Western
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 10, 2012
I always look forward to a new western from James Reasoner. The man never disappoints. I read this one early this morning over coffee, my favorite way to read ebooks.Here we have a man, Tom Brodie, ten years from losing his left arm in the Civil War, who ges a message from his past when the gut shot man dies in his arm. He gasps out a few words before the end. "Eva...Flannery...Salt Crossing!"Salt Crossing he knew, a small town in northern Texas. He'd never been there. Flannery was a name he didn't know. And Eva was his wife! He hadn't seen or thought much of her in thirteen years. When he got home, he'd learned she had sold everything and left town with a man, believing him killed in a battle.A week later he rode into Salt Crossing. Right away he saw the name Flannery all over the place, virtually every business in town.When he met Eva, a beautiful redhead used to getting her way with men, he learned she'd won a saloon from Flannery in a poker game, running a bluff on him. Flannery didn't like it, but the game was witnessed. He was determined to get it back. He'd been embarrassed to lose to a woman.Brodie knew what she wanted without her saying it, but he wasn't a hired killer. He was over Eva, at least he thought he was, but decided to stick around for a while. He already didn't like Flannery because he;d been braced by a couple of the boss man's gunmen.Recommended highly.