Edge #14: THE BIG GOLD

Edge #14

by George G. Gilman

Seascape, Oregon. A down-at-the-heels carny with one spectacular side-show – a brick of solid gold worth $1.000,000. Roger Case knew that to the untamed men of the west, this was just putting temptation in their way, and he feared for both his gold and his life.

Then Edge rode into town, and Roger Case knew any man that lightning fast and still poor just had to be honest. And anyone who met Edge’s piercing ice-cold gaze realized that if evil and cruelty were ugly, then this man was a nightmare!

Genres: Westerns

Mass Market Paperback

First published October 3, 1974

About the author

A pseudonym used by Terry Harknett.

Edge (61 books as George G. Gilman)
Adam Steele (49 books as George G. Gilman)
Edge Meets Adam Steele (3 books as George G. Gilman)
The Undertaker (6 books as George G. Gilman)

Reviews

[Wayne · Rating 5 out of 5]

Edge rides into a town with a carnival type show going on. The main attraction is a block of gold worth $1,ooo,ooo. The owner of the carnival hires Edge to help guard the gold after he witnesses him kill one guard that riled Edge. He takes the job and finds that no one is innocent when it comes to the gold.

One of the better books that I have read in the series. It ventures into some new areas of violence. Not only does Edge shoot and knife people, but he also releases two tigers on some ambushers. That's new. All in all, a great book.

[Monica Willyard Moen · Rating 2 out of 5]

I didn’t like any of the characters in this book, so I didn’t enjoy reading it very much. If you said this book belongs in the noir western genre, I would say it’s way too noir for me.

[Mikepottz · Rating 3 out of 5]

Edge stabs a knife in the armpit of a carnival knife thrower, blood spraying from the gaping hole. Satan had decided the lessons learnt in war needed to put into practice and Edge was an idea person. Edge gets a job protecting 1 million dollars in gold from thieves and also from guards. Don't point a gun at Edge , he fucking doesn't like it. He sends a bullet through an eye gouging out the eyeball, smashing through the skull, hosing blood. Amother will have his head disintegrate in a shower of torn flesh and thick liquid. Carnival Tigers will feed on thieves, crunching bone, feeding frenzy, ripping, clawing, tearing. Edge will squeeze the trigger of a blunderbuss lifting a man like a life-sized doll, thousands of wounds merged into one gaping area. A women who points a gun at Edge twice will be offered to a man with no teeth, his putrid breath rotting the air as Edge has no cash. As always Edge is a maniac.

[Charles · Rating 2 out of 5]

A typical "Edge" series read. Quick and easy. No redeeming characteristics in Edge's personality, but this is book 14 so if I were expecting some by now I would have long since quit the series. There's the usual gore and black humor. Edge cracks lots of one liners. Some of them are anachronistic in that they relate to things that happened long after the time of the novel.

[Carl · Rating 2 out of 5]

not as good as I remembered

[Davide · Rating 1 out of 5]

Un uomo d'affari mostra, a pagamento, una grossa pepita d'oro. Per difenderla dai rapinatori assolta Edge, che con la sua astuzia e la sua violenza lo salverà più volte.