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Title: Valdez Is Coming by Elmore Leonard ISBN: 0-380-82223-7 Publisher: HarperTorch Pub. Date: 05 February, 2002 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (6 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Good western adventure
Comment: Elmore Leonard is largely known for his crime novels, but through the years, he's managed to squeeze in a few westerns. Valdez is Coming is one of these, and is an excellent adventure story.
Bob Valdez is a local part-time constable whom nobody really notices. When a shady character tricks him into killing an innocent man, he asks those responsible to share in the burden of supporting the dead man's wife. They refuse, beating and humiliating Valdez in the process. This pushes Valdez over the edge, and he kidnaps the bad guy's girlfriend and begins a killing spree against his gang of thugs.
As in all Leonard books, the dialogue here is great. The story is also very well-written. I enjoyed this book over the course of an evening; it's a very entertaining and quick 256 pages.
Rating: 5
Summary: his finest
Comment: I've read a handful of other Leonard books and I've enjoyed them all. So far, this is his best. Yes, this is a western, but don't let that turn you away. It's just a good setting for a great story. Here, the law rests not with the police, but with a powerful, dislikable land owner, not with Valdez, the town's part-time constable. Valdez is tolerated, but laughed at, even bullied. When he and the landowner finally face off, Valdez proves himself tougher than anyone expected. Leonard has a gift for observing people and putting that observation to page. As always, he writes great bad guys, but here they are especially believable. You can understand their motivations. Leonard is a master at deadpan humor, and here its fully realized. You don't even know he's making a joke--until you start laughing. Read it and enjoy.
Rating: 5
Summary: Great Story
Comment: Even though this was written in 1970, the setting is at the turn of the century. The book has a timeless quality. Leonard has a great knack of developing all of his characters.
I heard this on Cassette. The reader and production were a joy to listen to.
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Title: Hombre by Elmore Leonard ISBN: 0380822245 Publisher: HarperTorch Pub. Date: 05 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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