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All the plot elements are familiar. The powerful rancher with a wayward son. Renegade Apaches. A hired gunman. Parker mixes them all together with Callico in a meandering story that could have used some editing. There's a bit too much repetition even though the book is more the length of a novella than a novel. But who cares? Not me. I enjoy reading pages of Parker's patented dialogue, even if I've heard it all before. I'm really going to miss his three or four new books a year.
I love the cover of this one, by the way. Hitch and Cole riding off into the sunset. Very appropriate.
1 comment:
You're right about the cover being symbolic of the ending of the series. I admire Parker for writing westerns when he could have kept pumping out Spenser novels.
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