Review: Return With Us Now to the Year ...Return with Us Now To The ....  This is a two-shoe review. The first shoe is easy to see: thi
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 16, 2013
This is a two-shoe review. The first shoe is easy to see: this is a tightly written, tautly-written Western of the two-gun shoot-em-up. Van Holt is an easy-to-read, highly skilled author whose books are tough to put down. Indeed, I read this one from cover-to-cover in a little over a day just to see where it would lead. In quite a short time, I learned about Alf Gant, Gantville and a character named bin Ladin. I also learned about the characters who inhabited this world, the spies, the wives, the fighters and the gunslingers who inhabit this 300-plus-page novel. The second shoe involves putting this guy named bin Ladin, also known as Alf Gant, his world of doubles and intrigues whose aim is to start a "holy war."  Does this sound familiar? It is; it was Osama bin Ladin's fervent aim to foment such a war and make his "radical Islamism" the world order. Now, Van is an excellent writer -- I wish I were half-a-good -- but I think he got up to his boot tops in this one and could never quite figure out how to get out. His ending is quite contrived (if you want to find out; you'll have to read this work), but it doesDynamite Riders: 9/11 in the Old Westprovide continuity right to the end.