Review: A Very Different Western
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 2, 2011
Bernard Schaffer has become one of my favorite contemporary writers because his books are always well written and interesting.  The Guns of Seneca 6 is no different. Schaffer transports the American Western into deep space and populates this world with characters that suits Schaffer's always unique imagination.The good guys in this world aren't always good and the bad guys are definitely BAD...Elijah/Little Willy Harpe in a grotesque way. There are several lines of tension and conflict nicely woven around each other in this book, which keeps the plot moving and interesting.  I finished this story in two nights.Schaffer's work has generated controversy because it is raw and violent.  He has responded to this criticism by publishing a "gentleman's" version of Whitechapel: The Last Stand of Sherlock Holmes.  In real life as a big city detective, Schaffer's world is raw and violent, filled with hypocrisy and failed justice.  Like all of us who have been in that world, he knows the story must be told.  He does it well.