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Gideon Thorn #10
Warpath
A MESMERIZING WESTERN HORROR STORY OF SURVIVAL AGAINST EVIL.
A Yaqui shaman raises a diablero to drive settlers out of Pina County, Arizona Territory in 1877.
Gideon Thorn arrives and teams with a small-town marshal to eliminate the threat and head off racial violence between townspeople and the tribe. Bart Ruggles is a lawman of limited jurisdiction and resources who only wants to save his town.
Still recovering from their recent adventures, Gideon hears from Dinah Pilcher, while he follows newspaper reports to find the unseen powerful force that is responsible for the massacres involving livestock and ranchers around the small town.
A Yaqui shaman raises a diablero to drive settlers out of Pina County, Arizona Territory in 1877.
Gideon Thorn arrives and teams with a small-town marshal to eliminate the threat and head off racial violence between townspeople and the tribe. Bart Ruggles is a lawman of limited jurisdiction and resources who only wants to save his town.
Still recovering from their recent adventures, Gideon hears from Dinah Pilcher, while he follows newspaper reports to find the unseen powerful force that is responsible for the massacres involving livestock and ranchers around the small town.
206 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 30, 2021
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Michael Newton
472 books104 followersLibrarian Note: There is more than one author by this name in the Goodreads database.
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"Michael Newton (born 1951) is an American author best known for his work on Don Pendleton's Mack Bolan series. Newton first began work on the Executioner series by co-writing "The Executioner's War Book" with Don Pendleton in 1977. Since then he has been a steady writer for the series with almost 90 entries to his credit, which triples the amount written by creator Don Pendleton. His skills and knowledge of the series have allowed him to be picked by the publishers to write the milestone novels such as #100, #200, and #300.
Writing under the pseudonym Lyle Brandt, Michael Newton has also become a popular writer of Western novels. He has written a number of successful non-fiction titles as well, including a book on genre writing (How to Write Action Adventure Novels). His book Invisible Empire: The Ku Klux Klan in Florida won the Florida Historical Society's 2002 Rembert Patrick Award for Best Book in Florida History. Newton's "Encyclopedia of Cryptozoology" won the American Library Association's award for Outstanding Reference Work in 2006."
Pen names: Lyle Brandt, Don Pendleton, Jack Buchanan
Bibiliography available here.
From Wikipedia:
"Michael Newton (born 1951) is an American author best known for his work on Don Pendleton's Mack Bolan series. Newton first began work on the Executioner series by co-writing "The Executioner's War Book" with Don Pendleton in 1977. Since then he has been a steady writer for the series with almost 90 entries to his credit, which triples the amount written by creator Don Pendleton. His skills and knowledge of the series have allowed him to be picked by the publishers to write the milestone novels such as #100, #200, and #300.
Writing under the pseudonym Lyle Brandt, Michael Newton has also become a popular writer of Western novels. He has written a number of successful non-fiction titles as well, including a book on genre writing (How to Write Action Adventure Novels). His book Invisible Empire: The Ku Klux Klan in Florida won the Florida Historical Society's 2002 Rembert Patrick Award for Best Book in Florida History. Newton's "Encyclopedia of Cryptozoology" won the American Library Association's award for Outstanding Reference Work in 2006."
Pen names: Lyle Brandt, Don Pendleton, Jack Buchanan
Bibiliography available here.
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June 30, 2021
Michael Newton – Gideon Thorn Bk 10 – Warpath – Reviewed 6/20/21 – Read 6/19/21
The Diablero, taloned hands, fangs, 8 ft. tall, mist-filled, and hell-bent on killing everything!
Gideon Thorn had been following the newspaper accounts of a few unusual killings of livestock, well more like massacres, in a small town called Hades, AZ. He felt that he had recovered enough from the last unnatural encounter that he and Dinah Pilcher, his newspaper friend, had gone through. Thinking back, he had known that Obi, his estate manager could take better care of her, plus he would oversee her recovery process, he had sent her east to the Thorn estate. He decided that he would go ahead and check out the situation in Hades before answering this last letter from Dinah, so he prepared to leave right away. There just seems to be something off in the killings and there might be something that he could do to stop it. Well, at least it was worth checking it out.
Arriving in Hades, Thorn knew that he needed more information, what better place to get it than the newspaper office. After reading the current edition he determined that things had escalated with this latest occurrence, from animals being torn apart to now a local sheep herder’s vicious murder. When he finished his visit with the editor it was late afternoon, thinking maybe a couple of drinks would sit just right he headed for the closest saloon before bedding down. Then he would get an early start in the morning. He had not been there long when he noticed a tired-looking man amble in, wearing a badge that said “Town Marshall,” now that didn’t take long! Seems he keeps a keen eye on newcomers and after checking with the hotel clerk figured to visit with him. Odd, he certainly knew a good deal about his background. He was also quite surprised, normally the local law doesn’t want him to interfere with their problems, but Marshall Ruggles is the opposite. He stated that he surely could use help and that is just what he was going to do, Help him out if he could.
Join Thorn and Marshall Ruggles, plus an old Yaqui Shaman in the battle of their lives against the Diablero, a demon summoned from beyond the other side…
Skinwalker: A Gideon Thorn Western Series includes – Skinwalker #1, Leviathan Rising #2, Ghost Town #3, Mountain Devils #4, Soul Slayers #5, Hallowed Ground #6, Night Flyers #7, Empty Graves #8, Rip Tide #9, and Warpath #10.
What did I like? Have to say that I have read every one of the books in this series and this one was very unique. Maybe because it involved the Yaqui Indian Shamans. Michael knows all the right buttons to push when he creates these storylines, all done with a touch of the unreal, and beyond. Or is it? I remember my grandfather telling me stories about the things that shamans can do, and what would happen if they dealt in black magic. Do these things happen, who knows? Do they exist, who knows? In this story, Thorn and Marshall Ruggles certainly do believe what they see before their eyes and the destruction that the Diablero handed out.
What will you like? Certainly, a well-written storyline that will reach out and grab you on page one, and not let go till the last page turns. The characters are truly amazing, from the Diablero to the Shaman and all of the residents of Hades. Michael gives us the picture in our minds with exquisite descriptions and details. You will hear the scream of the animals and the dying breath of each victim. See the roar of the fire as it burns through the buildings, and the ending will, well you will just have to read it for yourself, but it is amazing! Michael Newton has given us another adventure in book ten of The Gideon Thorn series, “Warpath” that will be available on June 30, 2021.
• ASIN: B095XBSB53
• Publisher: Wolfpack Publishing
• Publication Date: 6/30/2021
• File Size: 2393 KB
• Print Length: 204 pages
• Genre: Western Horror Fiction, Western Science Fiction, Horror Fiction Classics
The Diablero, taloned hands, fangs, 8 ft. tall, mist-filled, and hell-bent on killing everything!
Gideon Thorn had been following the newspaper accounts of a few unusual killings of livestock, well more like massacres, in a small town called Hades, AZ. He felt that he had recovered enough from the last unnatural encounter that he and Dinah Pilcher, his newspaper friend, had gone through. Thinking back, he had known that Obi, his estate manager could take better care of her, plus he would oversee her recovery process, he had sent her east to the Thorn estate. He decided that he would go ahead and check out the situation in Hades before answering this last letter from Dinah, so he prepared to leave right away. There just seems to be something off in the killings and there might be something that he could do to stop it. Well, at least it was worth checking it out.
Arriving in Hades, Thorn knew that he needed more information, what better place to get it than the newspaper office. After reading the current edition he determined that things had escalated with this latest occurrence, from animals being torn apart to now a local sheep herder’s vicious murder. When he finished his visit with the editor it was late afternoon, thinking maybe a couple of drinks would sit just right he headed for the closest saloon before bedding down. Then he would get an early start in the morning. He had not been there long when he noticed a tired-looking man amble in, wearing a badge that said “Town Marshall,” now that didn’t take long! Seems he keeps a keen eye on newcomers and after checking with the hotel clerk figured to visit with him. Odd, he certainly knew a good deal about his background. He was also quite surprised, normally the local law doesn’t want him to interfere with their problems, but Marshall Ruggles is the opposite. He stated that he surely could use help and that is just what he was going to do, Help him out if he could.
Join Thorn and Marshall Ruggles, plus an old Yaqui Shaman in the battle of their lives against the Diablero, a demon summoned from beyond the other side…
Skinwalker: A Gideon Thorn Western Series includes – Skinwalker #1, Leviathan Rising #2, Ghost Town #3, Mountain Devils #4, Soul Slayers #5, Hallowed Ground #6, Night Flyers #7, Empty Graves #8, Rip Tide #9, and Warpath #10.
What did I like? Have to say that I have read every one of the books in this series and this one was very unique. Maybe because it involved the Yaqui Indian Shamans. Michael knows all the right buttons to push when he creates these storylines, all done with a touch of the unreal, and beyond. Or is it? I remember my grandfather telling me stories about the things that shamans can do, and what would happen if they dealt in black magic. Do these things happen, who knows? Do they exist, who knows? In this story, Thorn and Marshall Ruggles certainly do believe what they see before their eyes and the destruction that the Diablero handed out.
What will you like? Certainly, a well-written storyline that will reach out and grab you on page one, and not let go till the last page turns. The characters are truly amazing, from the Diablero to the Shaman and all of the residents of Hades. Michael gives us the picture in our minds with exquisite descriptions and details. You will hear the scream of the animals and the dying breath of each victim. See the roar of the fire as it burns through the buildings, and the ending will, well you will just have to read it for yourself, but it is amazing! Michael Newton has given us another adventure in book ten of The Gideon Thorn series, “Warpath” that will be available on June 30, 2021.
• ASIN: B095XBSB53
• Publisher: Wolfpack Publishing
• Publication Date: 6/30/2021
• File Size: 2393 KB
• Print Length: 204 pages
• Genre: Western Horror Fiction, Western Science Fiction, Horror Fiction Classics
July 7, 2021
Another great read
I chose this rating because the author definitely deserved it, I truly enjoyed this book and series. Looking forward to reading more
I chose this rating because the author definitely deserved it, I truly enjoyed this book and series. Looking forward to reading more
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