Review: For anyone wanting to pick up a good Western, you have to try Von Holt..
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 18, 2013
I've now read a number of Von Holt's westerns and from the start they have attracted me. I think it is not an exaggeration to say that he has built up such a reputation with the number of good westerns that he has written that he could well be seen in the near future as the next Zane Grey.Von Holt seems to have improved with each book I have read. His writing is more concise and his story-telling sharper. What attracts me most is the way his plots seem to twist and turn, revealing actions and events in the story I just didn't see coming.In this novel we have Shiloh Stark returning back home from his time in the Civil War. His time there seems to have hardened him further, and strengthened his propensity to shoot first, ask questions later. With such a violent nature, it is only a matter of time before he is in trouble again.Yet again Von Holt blurs the lines between good and bad.  For all his harshness, Stark has also his good side, and a code of conduct some might even admire.For anyone wanting to pick up a good Western, you have to try Von Holt.