Review: Van Holt Brings Back The Concept Of The "White Hat"
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 10 8, 2013
While Hollywood has given us a lot of Westerns with guys in "white hats", they of all seemed a just a bit too angelic too good to actually have existed. Van Holt gives us a hero that is truly believable, although in the classic motif with come to expect from the best Westerns.Ben Hite's alarmist drifter that is cynical about everything, his life was ruled by the notion that found in needed each other to survive in the West that they would roundly get along. Like many of his ilk wherever he went trauma was not far behind. On the trail he's being chased by bad men in Native Americans alike. Along the way we meet three women, all of very different character and caliber.Van Holt's writing is superb and descriptive prose takes you back to the days of the old West. You could almost taste the grit in the air. This is a great book for any collection.