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The Gunsmith #346
Lady Eight Ball
The GUNSMITH learns that it's in the way that you use it... Clint Adams is already known for his talent with a gun, but Arizona rancher Jerry Sacks thinks that Clint's dead-eye skills make him the perfect man to play for him in a high-stakes pool game in Tucson. Now the Gunsmith is going to have to make some serious trick shots if he wants to avoid getting racked.
- GenresWesterns
192 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published September 28, 2010
About the author
J.R. Roberts
575 books42 followers"J.R. Roberts" is the pen name of Robert J. Randisi under which he writes the Gunsmith series.
Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name.
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June 12, 2016
Wow, this really takes me back to the long-running paperback series of my youth. (Some of which are still running, I'm told.) I'm glad I got it on deep discount though, as it's a slight volume not nearly worth its retail price.
It's a well-worn formula; stoic hero comes to new town, shoots a few people, has some sex, resolves issue of the story, leaves town. Some variation is had by making the issue of the story a pool tournament, but it's superficial trappings; anyone who hung out in a pool hall in their youth will learn nothing new about billiards.
The extremely short chapters do work in the book's favor in one respect; I was able to quickly skip over the sex scenes without missing anything.
If you see this or probably any of the Gunsmith books at a garage sale for a quarter, I'd recommend picking it up for a light, unchallenging read with some Western flavor.
For more Western reviews, see http://www.skjam.com/tag/western/
It's a well-worn formula; stoic hero comes to new town, shoots a few people, has some sex, resolves issue of the story, leaves town. Some variation is had by making the issue of the story a pool tournament, but it's superficial trappings; anyone who hung out in a pool hall in their youth will learn nothing new about billiards.
The extremely short chapters do work in the book's favor in one respect; I was able to quickly skip over the sex scenes without missing anything.
If you see this or probably any of the Gunsmith books at a garage sale for a quarter, I'd recommend picking it up for a light, unchallenging read with some Western flavor.
For more Western reviews, see http://www.skjam.com/tag/western/
Displaying 1 of 1 review