Review: Good western action
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 11, 2013
Another gun-slinging action western from the author of other action westerns such as Wild Desert Rose, The Bushwhackers, Blood in the Hills and many more.Like the ones before it, The Vultures doesn't disappoint. On the contrary, it moves along nicely at a good pace, and the story is packed with action and gunfights in the desert. And high above them, circle the ever-hungry vultures in the blazing sky.Bart Hooker has to grapple with the nasty Knox Farraday and his gang of trigger-happy desperadoes. Hooker comes close to biting the dust but manages to elude the baddies in ingenious ways.I enjoyed the book's easy-reading prose that contains plenty of good action, with enough suspense to keep the pages turning.An ex US Military Police in South Korea, Van Holt writes now in Tucson, in the Arizona landscape that provides stark background to the gun flights and dirty deeds that go on daily in his imaginary West.Western novels run the danger of being predictable and stereotyped, but thankfully none of this applies to Van Holt's novels.  This one has a convincing storyline that entertains.Recommended.