Longarm on the Border

Longarm #2

by Tabor Evans

Deputy U.S. Marshal Custis Long is dispatched to El Paso to extradite a prisoner from Mexico-and winds up target practice for some angry polecats.

Genres: Westerns

Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1978

About the author

Tabor Evans is the author of the long-running Longarm western series, featuring the adventures of Deputy U.S. Marshal Custis Long. Tabor Evans, is a house pseudonym used by a number of authors. The pseudonym of Tabor Evans would begin in the 1970s when Lou Cameron established it for the Jove Books publishing label. Lou Cameron helped create the character and wrote a number of the early books in the series. The first book was published in 1978. Other authors known to have written books in the series include Melvin Marshall, Will C. Knott, Frank Roderus, Chet Cunningham, J. Lee Butts, Gary McCarthy, James Reasoner, Jeffrey M. Wallmann, Peter Brandvold and Harry Whittington. In addition there are 29 "Giant" editions published as well.

The Longarm series is a mainstay of the "adult western" genre which arose in the 1970s. These books are distinguished from classical westerns by the inclusion of more explicit sex and violence.

Reviews

[Malum · Rating 4 out of 5]

One of the better Longarm novels that I have read. The mystery is compelling and the sex scenes don't start to get overbearing until near the end (and I usually skip through those anyway. I guess that's the trashy novel version of reading a skin mag for the articles).

[Josh Hitch · Rating 3 out of 5]

This second book in this long running series was ok. Written by Melvin Marshall who is not as good of a writer as some of the others who wrote these. The story is simple enough, Deputy US Marshal Long is sent to the Texas/Mexican border to find a missing Army Captain, a couple of soldiers, and a Texas Ranger who all disappeared around a sort of town called Los Perros. Also seems that a old cattle rustling loop has developed again taking stolen cattle into Mexico, bringing them back after their brands have been changed and with Mexican paperwork. This also seems settled around this little shack filled town and Long is supposed to look into this as well. Of course Long charges in and plans as he goes and screws every female multiple times on the way. I've read a fair amount of these and yes they all have silly sex scenes but most writers keep them short and get three in and that's it. But ol Melvin had several more then 3 and multiple pages for each, he took the adult part of adult western as the more important part then a good western story. Again the story was ok but most of these seem to be better.

Can't really recommend, if you enjoy adult westerns then you won't find this one unreadable but again most of the Longarms I've read have been better.

[Kurt Weber · Rating 4 out of 5]

In contrast with Book 1, which took me 33 months to finish, this one took me all of one day to finish.

[Bradley Schlieper · Rating 4 out of 5]

Overall pretty good plot with a few twists.

[Jay Kawasaki · Rating 2 out of 5]

“I’ll admit, you’re long where it counts the most.”

“After you get used to me, you’ll find I’m just as ornery as any other man that wears britches.”

[Seth Tomko · Rating 3 out of 5]

My video review of this Longarm novel can be found here: https://youtu.be/y_ZzOXjoemE?si=nGegE...

[Karen · Rating 3 out of 5]

Following my enjoyment of the first book in the Longarm series, this one was a bit of a let down. Longarm on the Border...as in bordering on 2 1/2 stars from me. The story itself is decent but it suffers from some rather stilted dialogue, particularly in the last half of the book, that left me struggling to finish it.

Longarm is searching for some missing people in the town of Los Perros, a town near the Texas/Mexico border. While on his mission he catches wind of some cattle rustling and is mighty suspicious that the shady lawmen of Los Perros may be involved in some lawless activities.

Once Logarm makes his way into Mexico the story became kind of less interesting to me for some reason.

I did enjoy reading about his hook up with the Mexican woman at the food stall. Reading about the food made me want to eat some tacos. The sexy parts were interesting as always but became downright "THAT WOULD NEVER HAPPEN!!" when he ends up having two women um, accompany him rather than fight over him. Please.