Review: A Great Modern Western
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 12, 2013
Years ago I found and fell in love with Louis L'amour. I read every book written by L'amour that I could get my hands on and soon found that his writing was different than anything I'd ever read before; it was fast and staccato. For a reader like myself who enjoys the unusual, I eagerly jumped right into the world of deadly snakes, gunfights and rolling brush. Dead Man Riding is actually BETTER than L'amour's books (although I will always have a soft spot for L'amour) because Van Holt has figured out how to write a western in that slow Southern manner but with a fast-paced accent. The reader has no time to be bored as Van Holt keeps the action moving rapidly. The characters reveal themselves in single-word stories that somehow speak volumes. And the plot is a bit more mysterious than usual. We know who the bad guy is, or do we?