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Title: Nowhere, Tx by David Robbins, Ralph Compton, Terry Evans ISBN: 1-56511-851-0 Publisher: Penguin Audiobooks Pub. Date: February, 2004 Format: Audio CD Volumes: 4 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.8 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Great Read
Comment: The town of Nowhere is in No Man's Land, an area yet to be given a name or statehood. A place where the only law is that dealt out by a one-handed Marshal, which aint alot.
A small town struggling to survive. Then Black Jack and his outlaws decide to make Nowhere home.
At first it works well, the uneasy peace between outlaws, citizens and the cowboys who work in the surrounding area. Eventually the peace becomes unease and then the violence erupts.
David Robbins provides us with a top notch tale here, tough, gritty and at times brutal. A story that dosen't contain a central character, rather revolves around the actions of many, both law abiding and not. Characters that'll have you urging them on, sharing their happiness and sorrows, or just plain despising them.
The events of the story weave together to build strongly to the final violent confrontation.
This book grabbed me from the opening sequence and from then on just begs not to be put down until you've finished it.
Very highly recommended, buy it now!
Rating: 4
Summary: FIRST RATE READING OF WESTERN
Comment: David Robbins does a picture perfect job of recreating the old West and Terry Evans does a great job of giving it voice from the outlaws, cutthroats, and thieves to the outraged townspeople to our hero.
Nowhere, TX is precisely that - nowhere, a tiny town perched on the border between Texas and the Oklahoma Territory. Nowhere is also a way station for all running from the law and for those who simply want to make trouble.
Obviously, life isn't easy for any law abiding citizen when they're overrun by desperadoes who think there's no law they can't break and set out to prove it. But, enough is enough, the town folk want the killers and thieves out of their town.
The tale of how this is accomplished is a breakneck listen from start to finish.
- Gail Cooke
Rating: 5
Summary: Nowhere, Tx Review
Comment: NOWHERE, TX - A Ralph Compton novel by David Robbins Genre: Western
This was a great book, one of the best stand alone Westerns (i.e. not a series) I've read IMHO. The way it was written was very effective and original, in fact I can't remember a book being written this way before. You had to judge people in the book by their actions, reactions or what they said or didn't say, You never got to know what the character's were thinking as no thought processes were detailed in the narrative i.e. there was never anything like "he thought", "she wondered" etc. It reminded me of watching a movie in some regards where you had to judge a character by what they did or said as you couldn't know what was in their minds.
The basic story revolves around the town of Nowhere which is on the cusp of the states Texas and Oklahoma but belongs to neither so it is in effect in "No Man's Land" and totally lawless as no state statutes apply there, A gang led by Black Jack Shelton take over the town gradually without the citizens noticing as the profit by the money the Outlaws are spending in the business, before they know it the town in a wild and lawless place. The story builds to a brutal and bloody outcome but I won't detail the whole story here as I don't want to ruin in for other readers. The whole pace of the book is very quick and I couldn't put the book down once I started it. The violence at times in the book is shocking as it comes totally out of the blue most of the time as you don't know what the character is thinking about before they trigger the violence, Billy Braden is a good example of this when he kills two innocent traveller's at the start of the book. What I also found interesting is that there isn't really a central hero figure in this book and this made it more life-like to me as there wasn't one good guy putting everything to right at the end of the tale.
This is a must read Western IMHO, fantastic.
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Title: Showdown at Two-Bit Creek by Ralph Compton, Joseph A. West ISBN: 0451208544 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: 03 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Jackpot Ridge by Ralph Cotton ISBN: 0451210026 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: 02 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Sabre's Edge by Ralph Cotton ISBN: 0451210034 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: 04 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Death Along the Cimarron by Ralph Cotton, Ralph Compton ISBN: 0451207696 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: 07 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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