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Nobody knew what cards Walt Parras held in the dirty game going on at the Romero Ranch, but the safest way to avoid surprise was to get rid of Parras fast. So they sent him off to rep for Romero at Madigan's Roman 4 roundup. To 'help' him, they assigned a cowhand with a low-slung gun and a killer's grudge. They figured if Madigan's hardcases didn't shoot Parras out of sheer cussedness, then their own man could backshoot him for certain. What nobody realized was that Parras himself didn't know what his own hand held...and he'd gunblast the lot of them to find out!
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First published January 1, 1969
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Nelson C. Nye
166 books4 followersNelson Coral Nye was an American author, wrote westerns and non-fiction books on quarter horses. Besides Nelson C. Nye he also wrote fiction using the pseudonyms Clem Colt and Drake C. Denver.
1959 Spur Award winning author for 'Long Run'.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_... and https://absolutewestern.fandom.com/wi...
1959 Spur Award winning author for 'Long Run'.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_... and https://absolutewestern.fandom.com/wi...
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January 9, 2022
My first Nelson Nye, unfortunately it was not a winner. This was a big disappointment as the story elements were all there. Our hero stumbles up to a ranch, looking for help. He had just woken up at the bottom of a cliff, his dead horse on top of him and no memory in his head. Unluckily for him, he's stumbled into a tense situation, with all sorts of schemes and double-crosses as multiple interests vie for control of the ranch.
Should be thrilling; it ain't. So much wheel spinning, especially anytime we're with the hero's point of view. Those sections go like this, state the obvious, fret over what has passed, reiterate the obvious and the fretting, review everything that just happened. It's all a big heap of telling not showing, and telling in an uninteresting way.
If that's not bad enough, this quality gets worse as the story builds, or at least tries to build, momentum. Action scenes get dragged down and lose any tension they may have had. Even worse, right before the climax, the villain spends FOUR pages retelling recent events with only slight changes. But the very worst is saved for last, a completely unsatisfactory ending that seemed ike the author looked up and saw he had reached his word count.
I have a few more Nye books, so I will still give him another try, but everyone else should avoid this one.
Should be thrilling; it ain't. So much wheel spinning, especially anytime we're with the hero's point of view. Those sections go like this, state the obvious, fret over what has passed, reiterate the obvious and the fretting, review everything that just happened. It's all a big heap of telling not showing, and telling in an uninteresting way.
If that's not bad enough, this quality gets worse as the story builds, or at least tries to build, momentum. Action scenes get dragged down and lose any tension they may have had. Even worse, right before the climax, the villain spends FOUR pages retelling recent events with only slight changes. But the very worst is saved for last, a completely unsatisfactory ending that seemed ike the author looked up and saw he had reached his word count.
I have a few more Nye books, so I will still give him another try, but everyone else should avoid this one.
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