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Title: Hellfire Canyon
Author: Max McCoy
Narrator: Henry Strozier, Carol Monda, Scott Sowers
Format: Unabridged
Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
Language: English
Release date: 05-07-09
Publisher: Recorded Books
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes
Genres: Fiction, Westerns
Publisher's Summary:
Hellfire Canyon features Alf Brolin, a tall drink of water who guns down innocent victims with the same carelessness with which he quotes classic literature. Federal trooper Zach Thomas, however, lacks any appreciation for Brolin's airs and means to see the outlaw put six feet in the ground.
Members Reviews:
Max McCoy's stories with Jacob Gamble as the protagonist is ...
Max McCoy's stories with Jacob Gamble as the protagonist is "can't put the book down" reading. Gamble is a character that I have not seen in other books and can't wait to see what he is up to next.
Good writing, easy reading, but more historical than a Western. Don't recommend it as a Western but good historical facts.
I've been struggling to find an author who writes good Western stories, not historical, not long on details of no value to a plot, and not biographical or whatever this one is called. Max McCoy isn't it, although my conclusion may be premature after only one book.
It's not all bad; it's a good size for a Western (about 200 page), very good writing and easy reading. But no plot really, just a story about a young Jacob Gamble's very early years. And I don't need footnotes to point out specific historical factors. I prefer fiction and this book is a terrible example of a "fiction" Western.
Too bad Chuck West can't find a publisher, but many are no longer publishing Westerns. I rate him the best writer of Westerns today, setting a standard that is not approached by the "selected" Johnstone authors in the past nine years.
I have four more of Max's books on my bookshelf... woe is me!
Norm
A Must Read! Two Thumbs Up!!
McCoy has always been one of my favorite authors, from Indiana Jones, to Westerns. His attention to historical detail--no doubt a by-product of his work as an award-winning journalist--is both impeccable and impressive. He's outdone himself with Damnation Road. It is no wonder the book won a 2011 Spur Award from the Western Writers Association.
The tale begins in 1898. It is the story of Jacob Gamble, a man conflicted by his wish to go straight, and the bitter deep-rooted knowledge that the conspiracies of life, and his outlaw genetics would always somehow, someway, prevent every attempt.
McCoy skillfully weaves in Campbell's violent past with tumultuous, "current" action, no holds barred. Gambles is a tough guy, unyielding but with great sensitivity, which--though deeply buried--fuels his desire to be something other than what he is, at the same paradoxically resigning him to the reality of being nothing more than he's meant to be.
The vernacular, action and detail is sterling McCoy. A must read for any aficionado of the personalities and legends of the historical West. Two thumbs up!
Reid Lance Rosenthal
Hellfire Canyon
Hellfire Canyon is the story of Jacob Gamble: outlaw, renegade and general trouble-maker. He is the archetypal western outlaw, with one exception: He is likable, and rather than the antagonist, he is the hero.
The novel begins when three men trample into young Jacob's farmhouse and demand breakfast from his mother. They are confederate soldiers with a platoon of blue bellies hot on their trail. This is the catalyst that shapes Jacob's life--the Union soldiers burn down his home, and he discovers his father is in lockup scheduled to be hanged.
