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Title: Black Thunder

Author: Max Brand

Narrator: Jeff Harding

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-01-17

Publisher: Isis Publishing Ltd

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Three short stories, featuring one man seeking justice, a dangerous trip in a river boat down some impossible rapids, and a love triangle.

Members Reviews:

Rough and tumble old fashioned adventures

Three tales about driven men, some good, some not so, but all obsessive in some way. In each tale, there is action and adventure and the desire to earn the heart of a good woman. Not a some flighty lightweight, but one who could hold her own, and was kind and well liked. The kind of person, worth knowing.

"Lawmen's Heart" concerned a man who saw his friend and mentor shot and killed in a stage coach robbery and the extremes he went through to find and capture his killer. The lady in this tale was admired by both the tracker and the killer. "White-Water Sam", was an interesting tale about river boats, Alaska, the Gold Rush, and the rough men, as wild as the country, who sought to make it rich there. The lady in this tale was helping her dad, a former captain, run a bar. "Black Thunder" was about two big, tough, guys, who enjoyed a fight, had hot tempers, and even as best friends, closer than brothers, they could turn on each other. To paraphrase a song, "God Bless the Mate that comes between me and my Kate". It got so bad, the lady left and hid from both of them, even though she loved one, as she did not want a blood bath and both were special to her. .

Black Thunder

Three westerns ala Max Brand, three that are good reads. Shorts are usually no too good but these are an exception.

A good read

There is something to say about the older westerns written by people who actually lived the rugged life of the later 19th and early 20th century. They display, in their writings, the core values and attitudes that have been pulverized, then over pasteurized and over homogenized by late 20th and current 21st century suburban life.

3 stories

Endings of all 3 stories were not very good. Left too many questions unanswered. Would not recommend to others. Max Brand is better than that.

Good western

I enjoyed the work. His poetic descriptions of the west were very detailed and colorful. Five more words required. The end.