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A Time for Heroes
Jason, a lonely orphan, learns the true meaning of friendship and heroism in this adventure novel revolving around a legendary hoard of gold and the two renegades who are after it
308 pages, Hardcover
First published June 1, 1987
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July 10, 2016
I really liked this book. It was full of humor and fun. I am going to read it again.
November 10, 2022
Time of Heroes, A Bryant, Will 3 Hist.F Hist.1920s Post WWI flier out west befriends woman newspaper writer caring for orphaned nephew & Great Uncle Union soldier inventor from gold diggers- comedy of misconceptions- funny 2015 1/28/2015
July 4, 2015
Set in 1920s Arizona, somewhat humorous adventures of aviator bootlegger. The enjoyable cast includes an eccentric inventor and an 11-year old.
copied and pasted "KIRKUS REVIEW
After a 10-year gap, Bryant (The Big Lonesome, Escape from Sonora, Blue Russell) returns with another high-spirited Western romp. This time the setting is 1923 Arizona and the accent is on humor as a roguish aviator helps a winsome family outwit a group of thugs. The leading man here is flyboy-turned-rumrunner Maynard Gaylen, but the novel's heroic heart beats loudest inside crazed desert-rat Hector Callard, an old coot who splits his time between perfecting a perpetual-motion machine and fending off imagined enemies. He thinks Gaylen one of these when the flyer, on the run from lawmen, lands his booze-laden plane near Hector's isolated shack. Hector's pretty grandniece Lexie turns up in time to save Gaylen from a shotgun blast--and to drive him into Tucson, where trouble brews in the form of her loutish brother-in-law, J.W. Whitlock, who's arrived in town to demand custody of his son, Jason, Lexie's nephew and ward. Determined to keep Jason, Lexie asks Gaylen to hide away the boy at Hector's shack. Meanwhile, setting the table for a clever comedy of errors that drives the book's remainder, two thugs identify J.W. as the man who reputedly stole gold from Pancho Villa's army; when he disappears the next day (actually to a brothel), the thugs wrongly assume that he's stashed the gold with Hector. But when the two race out to Hector's shack, the old inventor thinks they're after his perpetual-motion machine and escapes with Jason into the hills. A comic chase gallops through the novel's last third, as Hector employs an old soldier's canniness (and a sackful of tarantulas) to keep the thugs at bay, Jason learns a lesson in courage and friendship, and a romancing Gaylen and Lexie, accompanied by scores of townspeople, follow in hot pursuit of the thugs. Neat twists spiral into a bittersweet ending, wherein it's revealed that there is no gold, but there is a perpetual-motion machine--of a sort. As much fuss as action: the Keystone Cops chase soon wears thin. But chock-full of charming characters, and a real hea
copied and pasted "KIRKUS REVIEW
After a 10-year gap, Bryant (The Big Lonesome, Escape from Sonora, Blue Russell) returns with another high-spirited Western romp. This time the setting is 1923 Arizona and the accent is on humor as a roguish aviator helps a winsome family outwit a group of thugs. The leading man here is flyboy-turned-rumrunner Maynard Gaylen, but the novel's heroic heart beats loudest inside crazed desert-rat Hector Callard, an old coot who splits his time between perfecting a perpetual-motion machine and fending off imagined enemies. He thinks Gaylen one of these when the flyer, on the run from lawmen, lands his booze-laden plane near Hector's isolated shack. Hector's pretty grandniece Lexie turns up in time to save Gaylen from a shotgun blast--and to drive him into Tucson, where trouble brews in the form of her loutish brother-in-law, J.W. Whitlock, who's arrived in town to demand custody of his son, Jason, Lexie's nephew and ward. Determined to keep Jason, Lexie asks Gaylen to hide away the boy at Hector's shack. Meanwhile, setting the table for a clever comedy of errors that drives the book's remainder, two thugs identify J.W. as the man who reputedly stole gold from Pancho Villa's army; when he disappears the next day (actually to a brothel), the thugs wrongly assume that he's stashed the gold with Hector. But when the two race out to Hector's shack, the old inventor thinks they're after his perpetual-motion machine and escapes with Jason into the hills. A comic chase gallops through the novel's last third, as Hector employs an old soldier's canniness (and a sackful of tarantulas) to keep the thugs at bay, Jason learns a lesson in courage and friendship, and a romancing Gaylen and Lexie, accompanied by scores of townspeople, follow in hot pursuit of the thugs. Neat twists spiral into a bittersweet ending, wherein it's revealed that there is no gold, but there is a perpetual-motion machine--of a sort. As much fuss as action: the Keystone Cops chase soon wears thin. But chock-full of charming characters, and a real hea
March 1, 2016
A Time For Heroes, Will Bryant, RDC-M #2, @ 1987, 1/90. A comic adventure about an old inventor and a little boy. Okay.
January 16, 2008
A great read and another find from RDC!
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