Review: Hard-Boiled Action on the Panhandle, or...Jack Laramie Rides!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 4, 2014
The Drifter Detective Series is becoming a favorite series of mine. It started with another favorite series, the Cash Laramie western tales. Here we have Cash's grandson, Jack, fending off a gang of motorcycle outlaws in grand, western, Clint Eastwood fashion. The action takes place in an out-of-the-way eatery in the Texas Panhandle around the middle of the previous century, a time and a place Dundee really makes pop right off the page. The writing is tough and taut, the characters well developed, and the plot has just enough twists and turns to keep your eyebrows arching in surprise. To my mind, Wayne Dundee keeps getting better with every book he puts out. This is crisp and fast and very much worth your time. Though he denies it, Jack Laramie even has a little Mike Hammer in him. I for one can't wait for the next entry in the series as well as another oater from Wayne.