Review: "The Wild West Returns With Morgan Kane, Texas Ranger"
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 27, 2013
From one of the most famous authors, Kjell Hallbing under the pseudonym Louis Masterson, has written  83 novels featuring Morgan Kane.  The series has sold over 20 million copies in Europe.  "Without Mercy" is the third eBook in the series, following "El Gringo" and El Gringo's Revenge.  Losing a poker hand of four sevens to a straight flush is hard to take.  For Texas Ranger Morgan Kane, it represents a loss of $10,000.  Though he appears calm, his spine is tingling.  He doesn't begrudge the monetary loss, but the three men at the poker table had fooled him.  There are no obvious signs that they cheated, but he feels he'd been sucked in with wins before the big bomb had been dropped on him.  Morgan had stopped in St. Louis returning from a mission to Illinois to capture a swindler from Waco, Texas.  He was forced to kill the swindler.  Little did he know that one of the men at the poker table was the swindler's brother, who knows of his brother's demise.  Troy Duncan is out for revenge for his brother, and the first step is stripping Morgan of his money. The second stage is more savage.  I haven't read a western novel in a very long time, but I amazed myself by being swept away into the old west as if I was watching an old black and white western.  Morgan Kane is definitely no wimp; in fact, he acts more as a vigilante driven to overcome challenges.  This book is very exciting, though brutal in parts, but also has a touch of romance, as well as the drive to survive.  All this makes for an outstanding story, one you won't want to put down.  I look forward to reading more Morgan Kane stories.  Also, a movie project is in the works, "Morgan Kane: The Legend Begins" and I look forward to seeing it on the silver screen.