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Title: A Gathering of Widowmakers
Series: Widowmaker #4
Author: Mike Resnick
Rating: 4 of 5 Stars
Genre: SF
Pages: 198
Words: 68K
Written seven years after the supposed end to the Widowmaker trilogy, Resnick handles it much better than he did with the sequel to Santiago.
It felt very 2 story line’ish. One was about the original Widowmaker teaching the newest Widowmaker a much needed lesson and the second was of all 3 Widowmakers fighting an outlaw who could multiply himself. They were semi-tied together but it came across more as 2 serialized stories being put together. The whole Widowmaker series IS pretty much a serial, so it wasn’t a big stretch but I just noticed it more this time around.
This pretty much completes my re-read of Resnick’s stuff that I enjoyed in the past, so what comes next will be all new to me. He’s got a 50% success rate, so I’m not expecting a lot. Just hoping I don’t get bored.
★★★★☆
From the Publisher
When every version of the most lethal bounty hunter in the universe comes out to play, you get three times the action from the Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author.
He may be retired from the bounty hunting game, but Jefferson Nighthawk is still one of the three most dangerous men alive. The other two? His clones.
Trained by Nighthawk himself, Jeff can take down men no one else can. His one flaw is his mind. Jeff can only see in black and white, which leads to him killing an innocent man—and shooting another version of himself.
That would be Jason Newman, the second clone, the one who gave Nighthawk the peaceful future he’s now enjoying. He may have a new face and a new name, but he’s Nighthawk through and through, with the brains and humanity to match. Which is how he winds up on the wrong end of Jeff’s burner. Now, Jason’s in the hospital waiting for his organs to regenerate.
To teach the impulsive Jeff a lesson, Nighthawk lures him to a lawless planet where the galaxy’s most wanted are there for the taking. And where Jeff will learn how to match wits with both of the killers who came before him . . .
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