Review: Superb Western - Desert revenge
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 11, 2013
The Man Called Bowdry is a tantalizingly mysterious story about Bowdry, a wondering crack gunfighter, who appeared out of the desert and disappeared never to be heard of again; but not before making all-out war against the Wadley clan of thieves and rustlers who killed an old friend who sheltered Bowdry.The gunfighter was also the only one who knew why so many men had been killed in the boulder-strewn hills around the old man's shack where Bowdry stayed. And he told no one, except lovely Lucy Reardon.Mr Van Holt is here at his western action best. Like the many titles in his western series, the author's prose has a straight forward economy that tells a gripping story. The narrative shoots straight from the hip without too much flourish.So this makes this novel a good satisfying read, and hard to put down - I tried not to rush to the end to see how Bowdry wreaks his revenge.