Review: A "Six-Gun"derful book!  Sorry.  #badwordplay
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 3, 2014
I have read another Van Holt book in the past (The Gundowners), and really enjoyed it.  So now I'm back, trying another book by Holt.  And I have to say, I think I liked it as much as the first!Six-Gun Showdown is the story of Sandie Turner, and her quest for revenge for the death of her mother.  She is convinced by the unbelievably sleazeball-rific Claude Brown that the murder was Jim Dexter.  Upon hearing this accusation, HE sets out to kill Claude.  But then SANDIE doesn’t want JIM to kill CLAUDE, because she wants ANSWERS.  Benny Hill music plays, hilarity ensues.Like the previous book that I read, this is a Old West story, through and through.  The characters are so well realized, that I really felt a connection with them by the end of this book, and was bummed to see their story end.  The world, and story in general, is gritty and stylish, and I think it stays very true to what it is, and doesn’t try to be anything else.That sort of sounds like a bad thing, like it’s not trying to be different, but I don’t mean it that way.  Not everything has to be “Taking X genre and turning it on it’s head!”  There’s nothing wrong with a straight up western story, if that’s what you’re looking for, and if that IS what you’re looking for, I highly recommend Six-Gun Showdown, and Van Holt’s catalog of work.