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Post by franklinmarsh on Oct 22, 2007 11:41:34 GMT
A few words of praise for Jubal Cade 3 : The Hungry Gun. Trained to heal - he was born to kill! Jubal Cade was whisked from a Chicago orphanage at an early age to England, where, as he grew up he trained as a doctor. He returns to America in book 1 with his new wife. Unfortunately she is killed and Jubal spends another 21 books trying to apprehend her murderer. The first three books were written by Terry Harknett (creator of Edge) and then JC was passed on to Angus Wells, an editor at Sphere, to begin his writing career. I've read a couple of these and thought them OK but nothing particularly special. The Hungry Gun (Mayflower 1975, reprinted 1978) however is completely bonkers and therefore worth seeking out.
A mysterious gunman turns up at a railroad station. Seems he's looking for Cade who's on the next train in. The sheriff herds ten blonde dames dressed in red into the station. Their show at the local saloon has upset some folks and they need to be run out of town. The girls board the train to mucho a-whoopin' and a-hollerin' from the menfolk. The gunman (who's been recognised by one of the girls as someone who mistreated her) faces down Cade but the doc emerges triumphant. A little further down the line, some ordinary blokes who've been boozin' it up decide to force their attentions on the girls. Jubal, using one of the girls make up cases manages to defuse things by convincing the passengers there's a smallpox outbreak. The train is then held up by Mexican bandits who make off with the passengers wealth and the ladies, one of whom has left a message for Jubal - she knows something about the scarfaced man he's trying to track down. And then it starts to get very bloody and deranged.
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Post by noose on Jan 8, 2012 22:20:58 GMT
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Post by andydecker on Jan 9, 2012 10:09:18 GMT
Ah, Clifton-Dey! One of those cases wheren the cover are mostly better then the content. I love a lot of Angus Wells´stuff, but these he mostly wrote on auto-pilot.
Those winter covers are so good.
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Post by benedictjjones on Aug 25, 2012 20:11:39 GMT
^fully agree - the winter covers are great, oh and also agree that the covers are better than the writing!
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