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The Return
Nearly a year after an illegal gold mine was discovered and shut down another mystery is presented to the town of Rapid City and it's up to Judge Preston, Marshal Savage, and Zeke Conley to find the source and stop another bloodbath. The three are assisted again by Ben, a hundred and fifty pound monster of a dog with the courage of a bear and the cunning of a cougar.
394 pages, Paperback
Published July 3, 2019
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September 20, 2024
Actually doesn't deserve idt.
First of all, there weren't any chapter divisions, lots of misspelled words, superfluous and boring descriptions like someone adding 1 bean at a time to make a burrito. It took way too long to finally give a clue to the reason for the storyline, 77% of the whole book. In the meantime, just repetitive attacks, gory descriptions and too many new characters being added all along. The only reason I persevered to the end was because I paid a lousy $.99 for it, and wanted to add it to my list of books read for the year. I did that, but still feel like I wasted my money.
First of all, there weren't any chapter divisions, lots of misspelled words, superfluous and boring descriptions like someone adding 1 bean at a time to make a burrito. It took way too long to finally give a clue to the reason for the storyline, 77% of the whole book. In the meantime, just repetitive attacks, gory descriptions and too many new characters being added all along. The only reason I persevered to the end was because I paid a lousy $.99 for it, and wanted to add it to my list of books read for the year. I did that, but still feel like I wasted my money.
March 17, 2022
Unless you like zombies and other beasties.....
Well, unless you like zombies and other beasties with your cowboys I'd skip The Return and Haunted West. Chester's Last Ride is a better read.
But if you do read them, the trilogy in order are....
1. Haunted West
2. The Return
3. Chester's Last Ride
There are threads of an excellent series of books hidden beneath a lot of distracted writing and poor editing. A re-read before publishing would have helped all books, especially the first two.
Well, unless you like zombies and other beasties with your cowboys I'd skip The Return and Haunted West. Chester's Last Ride is a better read.
But if you do read them, the trilogy in order are....
1. Haunted West
2. The Return
3. Chester's Last Ride
There are threads of an excellent series of books hidden beneath a lot of distracted writing and poor editing. A re-read before publishing would have helped all books, especially the first two.
March 30, 2022
Gross
This is defiantly not a typical western. Zeke and Ben, marshal Savage, judge Preston, and some railroad men are looking for missing people. Many of the missing are found eaten by people infested with rabies. A very gross read. This author also does not know the correct tense of verb usage.
This is defiantly not a typical western. Zeke and Ben, marshal Savage, judge Preston, and some railroad men are looking for missing people. Many of the missing are found eaten by people infested with rabies. A very gross read. This author also does not know the correct tense of verb usage.
May 24, 2022
Decent quality amazing story awesome men and fantastic dog hard to put down lots of interesting sto
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the story unfolds you CA a Tully feel like you are there while all is happening
The end. Thanks for the interesting story
😋
Y you can feel the excitement as
Vvery good accounting of all thzt ishappening
the story unfolds you CA a Tully feel like you are there while all is happening
The end. Thanks for the interesting story
😋
March 13, 2022
ZOMBIES ? REALLY???
I don't read or watch zombies ! Even knowing this was about Zeke and Ben I was almost ready to give up because it took a while for them to make an appearance!
More Zeke and Ben please!
I don't read or watch zombies ! Even knowing this was about Zeke and Ben I was almost ready to give up because it took a while for them to make an appearance!
More Zeke and Ben please!
May 21, 2022
interesting story
I hope the author continues to improve. The story is good. Constant use of terms like “he reached him a gun.” Should be reworded to “he handed him…” and other phrases like that. Made my eyes hurt reading it over and over…
I hope the author continues to improve. The story is good. Constant use of terms like “he reached him a gun.” Should be reworded to “he handed him…” and other phrases like that. Made my eyes hurt reading it over and over…
February 10, 2020
Another marvelous story from Nathan Wright
This was my second story by Nathan and I enjoyed very much. It seems that there are at least two more and that where it headed next.
This was my second story by Nathan and I enjoyed very much. It seems that there are at least two more and that where it headed next.
February 13, 2020
Good story
Love the characters in this book. Have read all the books I could find with them in it. The plots are different but still good. Hope the series is continued.
Love the characters in this book. Have read all the books I could find with them in it. The plots are different but still good. Hope the series is continued.
December 23, 2020
Great read. I love Ben and Hazel.
Good story and character creation. Looking for other titles by this author. Hope any others are as well defined and interesting.
Good story and character creation. Looking for other titles by this author. Hope any others are as well defined and interesting.
February 21, 2022
Walking dead meets old west
Just the dead villains ruined what could have been another enjoyable western. Should have left well enough alone and just kept turning out great westerns
Just the dead villains ruined what could have been another enjoyable western. Should have left well enough alone and just kept turning out great westerns
April 4, 2022
Great story
Very interesting reading; and made it even better by the animals, especially the dog. He really was the star of the story.
Very interesting reading; and made it even better by the animals, especially the dog. He really was the star of the story.
April 8, 2022
Ben Takes the Show!
This book is kinda spooky. My husband really scared me when I was reading it. Characters were very good. Comraderie between them was good to read.
This book is kinda spooky. My husband really scared me when I was reading it. Characters were very good. Comraderie between them was good to read.
May 1, 2022
The return
It was an unusual book but it ended well. I don't think I liked the rabies disease and what it did. I prefer bad and good not diaeased.
It was an unusual book but it ended well. I don't think I liked the rabies disease and what it did. I prefer bad and good not diaeased.
May 1, 2022
The dog
I really want to know where he (the dog) came from . Waiting for the story. I hope Nathan Wright decides to do just that.
I really want to know where he (the dog) came from . Waiting for the story. I hope Nathan Wright decides to do just that.
May 27, 2022
Loved it!
Above all, this book was DIFFERENT!. Not the same old western - and I love westerns.
You take it from there.
Dale
Above all, this book was DIFFERENT!. Not the same old western - and I love westerns.
You take it from there.
Dale
September 1, 2022
I thought the story content was good, however, I'm not into zombie stories.
March 3, 2023
Editor, PLEASE!
A good story may be buried in all the poor grammar and worse punctuation but it's too much work to dig it out.
Mr. Wright, don't waste your effort. Get an editor.
A good story may be buried in all the poor grammar and worse punctuation but it's too much work to dig it out.
Mr. Wright, don't waste your effort. Get an editor.
August 17, 2023
Not your typical Western. really held my interest.. Well thought out book. I thoroughly enjoyed the story and loved the interplay between Human and horses and dog. Great read.
April 1, 2024
Got a little stupid at time wit the sickness. If it wasn’t for the dog wouldn’t have given it the rating I did
January 9, 2020
GET AN EDITOR
The author desperately needed an editor. There were so many punctuation problems in the writing that the book was difficult to read. I had to guess what the author’s intended meaning was throughout the book. There were so many comma splices that I was repeatedly reading lines and figuring out where one sentence should have ended and a new sentence should have begun. I counted more than fifteen comma splices and run-on sentences in the first few pages. I have taught junior high, high school and university level writing courses. I can tell you that my eighth graders had a better grasp of basic punctuation than this author demonstrated. It’s a shame. Having to make sense out of very poorly punctuated writing took the joy out of reading this book.
The author desperately needed an editor. There were so many punctuation problems in the writing that the book was difficult to read. I had to guess what the author’s intended meaning was throughout the book. There were so many comma splices that I was repeatedly reading lines and figuring out where one sentence should have ended and a new sentence should have begun. I counted more than fifteen comma splices and run-on sentences in the first few pages. I have taught junior high, high school and university level writing courses. I can tell you that my eighth graders had a better grasp of basic punctuation than this author demonstrated. It’s a shame. Having to make sense out of very poorly punctuated writing took the joy out of reading this book.
January 10, 2020
Awesome
I could not put this book down. It was very well written and you had no idea what was going to happen next. !over the dog character...he was almost human. Put him in another book please.
I could not put this book down. It was very well written and you had no idea what was going to happen next. !over the dog character...he was almost human. Put him in another book please.
August 3, 2019
CAN'T RUN AWAY
Fellow readers this is a "what, what moment! People will stoop to any means necessary to get what they want. Men are injected with a super radical strain of "rabies" injection. Strange but then not strange a group of medical doctors from the south who wanted to enhance the chances of winning the Civil War. Their ultimate goal didn't work, but it didn't go un-noticed, it was said that Andrew Jackson who was appointed as President of the Confederate States was supposedly not aware of this situation.
Men were captured and injected with this super strain of rabies to scare people off their farms. These farms where abandoned and brought up a Dalton Talbot aka Lloyd Schafer who was behind this horrendous crimes committed against humanity. This was almost a take off of the "walking dead."
I would like a little more history about Hazel the green eyed mare and Ben a huge one hundred and fifty pound of mixed breed of dog. But I speak and think quitely about Ben and Hazel. Per Marshal Zeke whom these two friends, he even said they were just there, no one came to claim them, so we are together..strangely weird, right?
I hope to read more about Marshals Zeke, Savage and Judge Preston. A very strange group of people.
This is worth reading and it keeps you wanting to know more about what's going on..Strange strange!! So why should the West just contain cowboys, crazy gun toting gangs, land grabbing and slave owners who wanted free labor to work the silver and gold mines..wouldn't surprise me or you right. Ways don't change only the people who apply them for their own selfish narcissistic wants.
Fellow readers this is a "what, what moment! People will stoop to any means necessary to get what they want. Men are injected with a super radical strain of "rabies" injection. Strange but then not strange a group of medical doctors from the south who wanted to enhance the chances of winning the Civil War. Their ultimate goal didn't work, but it didn't go un-noticed, it was said that Andrew Jackson who was appointed as President of the Confederate States was supposedly not aware of this situation.
Men were captured and injected with this super strain of rabies to scare people off their farms. These farms where abandoned and brought up a Dalton Talbot aka Lloyd Schafer who was behind this horrendous crimes committed against humanity. This was almost a take off of the "walking dead."
I would like a little more history about Hazel the green eyed mare and Ben a huge one hundred and fifty pound of mixed breed of dog. But I speak and think quitely about Ben and Hazel. Per Marshal Zeke whom these two friends, he even said they were just there, no one came to claim them, so we are together..strangely weird, right?
I hope to read more about Marshals Zeke, Savage and Judge Preston. A very strange group of people.
This is worth reading and it keeps you wanting to know more about what's going on..Strange strange!! So why should the West just contain cowboys, crazy gun toting gangs, land grabbing and slave owners who wanted free labor to work the silver and gold mines..wouldn't surprise me or you right. Ways don't change only the people who apply them for their own selfish narcissistic wants.
December 21, 2019
Western Mystery
The Return by Nathan Wright. Book two of the series about strange things happening in the area of Judge Preston, Marshall Savage and Zeke with his dog Ben. With undead men and cannibals. It's one adventure after another keeping you reading!
The Return by Nathan Wright. Book two of the series about strange things happening in the area of Judge Preston, Marshall Savage and Zeke with his dog Ben. With undead men and cannibals. It's one adventure after another keeping you reading!
October 11, 2019
An NW. Western Action Adventure Horror Tale (TR)
NW. had penned a western action adventure horror tale, which he must have concocted after watching "The Walking Dead" I have to admit I thoroughly enjoyed the novel and would like to see a western movie made. It could be serious or tongue in cheek. Fear the walking dead or become like them from a single bite. The only way to kill them is to shoot them in the head or decapitate them.
This is an excellent read for the genre. I laughed all the way through the reading.....DEHS
NW. had penned a western action adventure horror tale, which he must have concocted after watching "The Walking Dead" I have to admit I thoroughly enjoyed the novel and would like to see a western movie made. It could be serious or tongue in cheek. Fear the walking dead or become like them from a single bite. The only way to kill them is to shoot them in the head or decapitate them.
This is an excellent read for the genre. I laughed all the way through the reading.....DEHS
July 22, 2019
Scary
Ok, I have to ask? Is the virulent rabies a true fact? Fast action. This one is a horror story. Not a horror story fan , although one was well written.
Ok, I have to ask? Is the virulent rabies a true fact? Fast action. This one is a horror story. Not a horror story fan , although one was well written.
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