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[Elmore Leonard] Ð Elmore Leonard's Western Roundup #3: Valdez is Coming & Hombre ☆ Download Online eBook or Kindle ePUB. Elmore Leonard's Western Roundup #3: Valdez is Coming & Hombre Five Stars A. Leonard was great before he was cool I picked this book up at San Francisco International Airport (which has a great bookstore in the United Airlines terminal) thinking I'd like to relax with a western. I have always loved Elmore Leonard's work, so it seemed like a fit to choose one by him instead of old Louis (anot. E. S Winskill said Hard-boiled westerns. I knew Leonard only by reputation and the movie "Get Shorty". I thought I'd pick him up someday. Meanwhile, I started to read
| Title | : | Elmore Leonard's Western Roundup #3: Valdez is Coming & Hombre |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.72 (712 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0385333242 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-07-14 |
| Language | : | English |
The little guy is the kinda guy, the harder you shove him, the more trouble he's gonna be. He shoves back. There's not a wasted moment; every scene, every line of dialogue moves the story forward to the inevitable showdown where, as Valdez says, "you get one time, mister, to prove who you are." The second novel in this volume, Hombre--perhaps Leonard's best-known Western novel--is just as relentlessly plot-driven, with characters that reveal their psychological complexity strictly through what they do and say as they struggle to make their way to safety across a hot desert in the aftermath of a stagecoach holdup. Other than that, you've got tw
Five Stars A. Leonard was great before he was cool I picked this book up at San Francisco International Airport (which has a great bookstore in the United Airlines terminal) thinking I'd like to relax with a western. I have always loved Elmore Leonard's work, so it seemed like a fit to choose one by him instead of old Louis (anot. E. S Winskill said Hard-boiled westerns. I knew Leonard only by reputation and the movie "Get Shorty". I thought I'd pick him up someday. Meanwhile, I started to read westerns, and picked up a few L'Amours. Louis is good. But a friend told me that Leonard wrote westerns before mystery/thrillers. Try him, he said. I did,
Then Bob Valdez, humble town constable and stage-line shotgun rider, walked down to the shack. But for Bob Valdez it was far from over. Moments later Valdez had killed an innocent man, and the crowd, sapped of its bloodlust, wandered off. Valdez Is Coming: The shotgun went off aimed at the wrong man, held in the wrong man's hands. One of the passengers, John Russell, is a white man who was raised partly by Apache Indians, and knows first hand the indignities suffered by them at the hands of the whites who control the reservations. He wanted the wealthy landowner who had enginnered the scene to give the dead man's woman money for a wrongful death. A crowd had gathered to drink and laugh and shoot down at the old shack where a supposed killer was hiding out. Combatting the outlaws, Russell finds himself faced with the decision of whether to save only himself or to save his fellow white passengers. They laughed at Bob Valdez. They taunted him and beat him until Valdez had no choice but to come back to them again. Only this time Valdez was coming with three guns--three guns and the will to teach a rich man's army how costly atonement can get.Hombre:
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