Brimstone
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- ISBN13: 9780399155710
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
New York Times-bestselling leader Robert B. Parker takes aim at the Ancient West with this brilliantly crafted follow-up to Resolution and Appaloosa, again featuring guns-for-hire Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch.
W hen we last saw Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch, they had just place things to right in the rough-and-tumble Ancient West town of Resolution. It’s now a year later, and Virgil has only one thing on his mind: Allie French, the woman who stole his heart from their days in Appaloosa. Even though Allie ran off with another man, Virgil is determined to find her, his deputy and partner Everett Hitch at his side. Building their way across New Mexico and Texas, the pair finally learn Allie in a tiny-town brothel. Her spirit crushed, Allie joins Everett and Virgil as they head north to start over in Brimstone. But things are not the same between Virgil and Allie; too much has happened, and Virgil can’t face what Allie did to survive the year they were apart. Vowing to change, Allie thinks she has establish redemption through the local church and its sanctimonious leader, Brother Percival. Agreed their reputations as guns for hire, Everett and Virgil are able to secure positions as the town’s deputies. But Brother Percival stirs up distress at the local saloons, and as the violence escalates into murder, the two struggle to keep the peace.
As sharp and clear as the air over the high desert, Brimstone proves once again that Robert B. Parker is “a force of scenery” (The Boston Globe).
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Two of the three black hats, an Indian with a grudge, and a preacher with an manufacture, are both strawmen for the pair of bulletproof white hats, who would have us judge that the west was won with bullets, alcohol, hookers and hackneyed ripostes. Please stick to Boston Mister Parker, I liked you there.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
Heroes. Terrible guys. Fantastic dialogue. Relationships that make you scratch your head. Fantastic action. Damsels in distress. Commentary on society. Suspense. A smile on your face. A master at work.
It’s all here, and at the end? You can’t wait for the next one.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
The most over priced book I have ever bought from Amazon. Written at the third grade level, it was a chore just to end. Weak plot, pour dialogue, what more can I say. Parker is no Elmer Kelton.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
What can I say nice about this book? Not much.The late Robert B. Parker could have been the best crime fiction writer of the last quater of the 20th century.That is until he changed his Spenser novels into trite, chit-chatty junk.In 2005 he ventured into the western genre(not counting his Wyatt Earp rewrite).Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch are nothing more than Spenser and Hawk out west.The writing is shallow,banal and inane,which reminds the reader of conversations between Spenser,Hawk and Susan Silverman.If you want to read Parker at his best,read his first twelve Spenser novels.If you want western fiction read Louis L’amour.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
“Brimstone” is the third installment of the series (“saga” would be hyperbole in this case) featuring Everett Hitch and Virgil Cole, town-tamers wandering through the Ancient West in the literary equivalent of the “buddy movies” of the 80s and 90s.
They’re likeable guys, though these certainly aren’t novels that reach anywhere near the depth and scope of the “Lonesome Dove” novels by Larry McMurtry.
In this entry, Cole’s trying to track down his ancient girlfriend, Allie, from the first book of the series, “Appaloosa” (adapted as a very excellent movie, BTW). Along the way, they find themselves facing what’s quickly apt a formulaic situation in these Parker books: a town with no lawman, a Terrible Guy trying to take control of the town, a different Terrible Guy opposing Terrible Guy #1, and Hitch and Cole sorting it all out by applying their skills with guns as appropriate to resolve this nicely as in one of the ancient ½ hour western TV shows of the 1950s.
This book is very sparse and bare-bones, with small in the way of settings in place and time. At one point, Parker refers to the characters having visited Fort Rucker – which in real life is in Alabama – when it’s clear the tale’s meant to take place in a more traditionally “western” area like Arizona, from where they travel to Texas, for example. It’s really pretty generic.
Obviously the laconic scenery of the storytelling is a creative choice by Parker, and as it matches the scenery of the central characters, works well enough.
As I said: light fare; honestly entertaining, but sorry to say doesn’t even come close to realizing its potential. Certainly leaves you wishing there were more to it.
MUCH better as a movie treatment or speech than as a fully-realized novel.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5