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Title: Sackett
Title: Sackett
Series:
Sacketts #8
Author:
Louis L'Amour
Rating:
3.5 of 5 Stars
Genre:
Western
Pages:
160
Format:
Digital Edition
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Synopsis: |
William “Tell” Sackett decides that since his younger brothers are so successful that he needs to do something important too. So he finds a hidden valley with a gold mine and a beautiful lost woman.
Gets
hunted by golddiggers, some gunslingers out for revenge for their
dead brother and a banker. Now THAT is scary! Just imagine the banker
from The Bank of Evil in Despicable Me.
The
beautiful woman rejects him because he's such a “savage killer”.
Then he rescues her again, kills most of the badguys, gets shot and
hooks up with the beautiful woman, who sees the error of her liberal,
big city, gun hating ways.
Oh, if
only more stories had that kind of happy ending.
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My Thoughts:
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Besides Ride the
River, this was the most enjoyable Sackett story yet. It is also
one of the simplest and straight forward ones as well. As well as eye
rollingly western tropish. But that is WHY you read L'Amour.
When I married Mrs
Bookstooge, if I had known that all I needed to do to get her to
agree to me owning a gun was rescue her from a mountain, in a
blizzard while being chased by desperadoes, well, that would have
totally changed the equation. And doing it while carrying a wounded
man who had tried to kill me? Psshawwww! But obviously, real life
isn't that simple. I had to prove to her that her wishes came first
for 9 years.
Honestly, I don't
think that Tell Sackett was as big a man as me! I'd like to see him
put up with some of the people I have. Of course, he'd probably just
shoot them and have done. Ahh, the good old days
* huge grin *
★★★☆ ½
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