Deadwood

Luke Starbuck #6

by Matt Braun

"MATT BRAUN IS A MASTER STORYTELLER OF FRONTIER HISTORY." -Elmer Kelton
IN THIS TOWN

Five thousand dollars. That was what a slick Denver lawyer-representing a mysterious client-offered to pay the legendary manhunter Luke Starbuck. The job: to find a way into Wyoming's infamous Hole-in-the-Wall outlaw stronghold and shoot a bad man dead. Starbuck knew there was something wrong with the deal. And by the time he reached the foothills of the Big Horns he had a good idea what it was: he'd been set up to be killed.

ANY MOMENT COULD BE YOUR LAST...
Now, making his way among lawmen, gunmen, and free spirits riding on both sides of the law, Starbuck is traveling to Salt Lake City and all the way back to Denver to find the mystery man who wants him dead. But with key players dying every step of the way, Starbuck must find his answers within his own violent past-and in a Badlands town called Deadwood, where secrets are sealed in blood.

"BRAUN IS ONE OF THE BEST!"-Don Coldsmith, author of the Spanish Bit series

Genres: Westerns, Historical Fiction

256 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published November 28, 1981

About the author

Matt Braun is an author of fifty-six books, most of which are in the Western genre and has over 40 million copies in print.

Reviews

[Stephanie · Rating 3 out of 5]

This started off and finished off as an excellent Western. The real drag was the long, long discourse on Dakota politics. Yes, needed for the story, but if I wasn't listening to an audiobook, I would have drifted off. I listened to the audiobook by Richard Ferrone. He does an excellent job.

[Kanabar · Rating 5 out of 5]

It's a well written book, the action is not too slow, not too fast.
There are many interesting details about the old west.
I really enjoyed reading this book.

[Megargee · Rating 3 out of 5]

While at sea, I found this novel in the ship's library and enjoyed it. Matt Braun appears to include more historical detail and some real life historical characters and settings in his novels. Deadwood is the first Luke Starbuck novel I had read and I decided to read some more when I had the opportunity.

[David · Rating 5 out of 5]

A bit better than MANHUNTER--the other half of this two for one package--and sets up a potential conflict between Luke Starbuck and Butch Cassidy. Excellent.