Review: The Gunslinger
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 26, 2014
A short but good western romance with a slightly different theme. Chance Wilder is a gunslinger, hired by people for various jobs, mainly to get rid of their enemies. He has quite a reputation for being fast on the draw and for killing many men. Fact is, he is not that fast, just deadly accurate and the number of kills attributed to him is inflated, but he doesn't clear up these facts, it all perpetuates his image. He is known to accept the best offer; when Toby Madison offers him "everything I got",( a piece of string, a harmonica and a bent coin) to protect his sister, Lillian, Chance accepts. Chance is wounded during the shootout to save Lillian and she winds up tending to his wounds. She doesn't know that she is the person that he had been hired to come to town to get rid of. I like the personality given Chance by the writer; he has a sad past and present; he has no home and doesn't ever expect to have one. He is unaccustomed to being around decent folks. I love the underdog, even though he is a hardened man. A good book.