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Rio Grande Deadline
Sinister activity and danger characterize Allan Vaughan Elston’s thrilling new western novel of lawlessness and disorder in the frontier days of New Mexico.
Searching for his younger brother Cass, who is a “bit on the will (sic) side”, Lee Holland rides into New Mexico where Indians, Mexicans and Americans of various sorts are competing for land. Cass has fallen in with bad company – the last of Billy the Kid’s gang – and gives Lee a tip on an Albuquerque lawyer named Condon, thought to be mixed up in some shady dealings.
In Albuquerque Lee checks on Condon and finds he has an untainted reputation and even Ann Garland, an attractive and opinionated young woman bent on reform, refuses to doubt his integrity. When the showdown comes, Lee Has to fight it out alone under grim and frightening circumstances.
As usual Mr. Elston has written a story with a complex plot, authentic historical background, plenty of action – and romance. His colorful assortment of characters includes Le Carge, a half-white Apache, one of Geronimo’s most daring warriors; Father Gasperi, a gentle priest; Jules LeNoir, a mysterious French barber; Celestina Barela, a pretty Mexican girl whose family is whipped out in an Apache raid; Milt Yarberry, the cruel Marshal of New Albuquerque, and a number of other villains, victims and innocent bystanders.
Searching for his younger brother Cass, who is a “bit on the will (sic) side”, Lee Holland rides into New Mexico where Indians, Mexicans and Americans of various sorts are competing for land. Cass has fallen in with bad company – the last of Billy the Kid’s gang – and gives Lee a tip on an Albuquerque lawyer named Condon, thought to be mixed up in some shady dealings.
In Albuquerque Lee checks on Condon and finds he has an untainted reputation and even Ann Garland, an attractive and opinionated young woman bent on reform, refuses to doubt his integrity. When the showdown comes, Lee Has to fight it out alone under grim and frightening circumstances.
As usual Mr. Elston has written a story with a complex plot, authentic historical background, plenty of action – and romance. His colorful assortment of characters includes Le Carge, a half-white Apache, one of Geronimo’s most daring warriors; Father Gasperi, a gentle priest; Jules LeNoir, a mysterious French barber; Celestina Barela, a pretty Mexican girl whose family is whipped out in an Apache raid; Milt Yarberry, the cruel Marshal of New Albuquerque, and a number of other villains, victims and innocent bystanders.
222 pages, Hardcover
Published January 1, 1957
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