Review: The quintessential Western
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 09 3, 2013
For all the genre's good, and bad, Without Mercy is the prototypical Western. Perhaps that should be stereotypical Western... but for the most part it works. The 125 pages fly by as Morgan Kane loses a fortune in a rigged poker game, is ambushed and left for dead, and sets out on a course of revenge. The plot has been done a million times before, but the compelling characterization, excellent pacing, and credible dialogue more than make up for it. If you can get past a small dose of adverb poisoning and the occasional grammatical foible, the book is quite entertaining. Not perfect by any means, but well worth reading.