Six-Gun Samurai: Gundown at Golden Gate

Six-Gun Samurai #3

by Patrick Lee

Gundown at Golden Gate (Six Gun Warrior Series) [Mar 01, 1981] Lee, Patrick

Paperback

First published January 1, 1981

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Reviews

[Wayne · Rating 4 out of 5]

On his way to San Francisco to avenge his family's death, The Six-Gun Samurai gets shot by bandits. He's nursed back to health by a Chinese man and woman who are also headed to Frisco. When he gets there, they are greeted by some toughs who don't like the Asian race, who work for the Samurai's mortal enemy. The Samurai fights the man who is trying to become mayor, also backed by the one he is seeking vengeance on, and a violent Tong gang, who just by chance is fighting each other as well.

Sort of short. 170+ pages. This is not as violent as an "Edge" book, but there are a lot of decapitations and people losing hands and feet. It drifts away from time to time on political talk and flashbacks from the two previous books. It does move along with the story and action, though.

[Mikepottz · Rating 3 out of 5]

Tanaka, the American samurai, is still in hot pursuit of his arch enemy. Tommy swiftly moves his sword cutting through the forehead, the skull effortlessly falling to the ground. Another had his guts seeping out while projectile vomiting blood. His pistol skills are impressively adroit and an enemies skull explodes and splatters gunk through the air. Ribs exploded into lungs piercing like spears. He will destroy an illegal opium and prostitution racket run by the Chinese. Blood spilled like a broken vat of red wine. His honor and loyalty is beyond measure.

[Matthew · Rating 3 out of 5]

This one was better than the last one with its plot involving Chinese tongs in San Francisco. Overall, an amusing escapist read.

[Tom Johnson · Rating 3 out of 5]

Six-Gun Samurai #3: “Gundown At Golden Gate” by Patrick Lee (William Fieldhouse). Thomas James Fletcher joined the Navy as a young boy, but while in Japan he is alone and struggling to survive when a powerful Samurai takes him under his wing. For the next twenty years he is trained as a Samurai. A letter from home tells him of the problems plaguing his family in Georgia, and he returns to seek vengeance upon Colonel Edward Hollister, the leader of a renegade commander and his troops, raiding and pillaging, killing and raping. As an American, raised in the land of the Shogun and trained as a warrior knight in Japan, he’s now known as Tanaka Tom Fletcher and bound by the Samurai code of the Bushido to a bloody vendetta against the Yankee marauders who slaughtered his family in Georgia. He must carry out his mission to its ultimate conclusion – the destruction of his enemies or himself. This is the basic premise of the backstory and series. In this current story Tanaka Tom Fletcher’s quest for vengeance has led him to San Francisco, where an agent of his archenemy, Colonel Hollister, is running for mayor of the great city. Tanaka Tom intends to terminate his campaign. However, there is a violent power struggle between the forces of the corrupt politicians and the ruthless blue dragon tong society, and Fletcher finds himself in the middle of two warring factions – and both sides want him dead. This is a silly plot for a western series, but good writing for the most part. Don’t expect much characterization, but there is plenty of action.