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Title: The Last Hard Man
Author: Brian Garfield
Narrator: Kristoffer Tabori
Format: Unabridged
Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
Language: English
Release date: 11-12-12
Publisher: Audible Studios
Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense
Publisher's Summary:
After breaking free from a chain gang, the prisoners seek refuge in the desert.
Zach Provo saw the dawn of the twentieth century from inside the walls of Yumas prison. After twenty-eight years on an Arizona chain gang, Provo seizes an opportunity to escape. He smashes one guards face with a rock, takes his shotgun, and blows the other guard away. Soon the twenty-eight men of the chain gang are on the loose. Provo sends most of them into the desert to hide, holding back the nine smartest fugitives. While the police hunt for the men who ran, his group waits for nightfall, hidden in the mud of a dry riverbed. At dark they sneak back into Yuma.Escape was only the first part of Zach Provos plan. Now comes time to deal with the man who sent him awayand the bloody vengeance of which he has dreamed for decades.
Members Reviews:
A rugged tale of vengeance in the rapidly evolving West.
I donât typically read western novels â films are my preferred medium for that particular genre â so Iâll admit up front that the only reason I picked up The Last Hard Men because of Brian Garfieldâs non-western works such as Death Wish and Hopscotch.
The Last Hard Men (which is actually a 1976 reissue of the 1971 novel Gundown) has two standard western themes running through it. On the surface, The Last Hard Men is a good old fashioned revenge story, as half-Indian convict Zach Provo breaking out of prison - accompanied by a rag-tag group of hardened desperadoes â with the sole intention of delivering bloody, prolonged vengeance to the man who killed his wife and imprisoned him for 37 years, the now ex-Sherrif Max Burgade.
The novelâs Lawmen versus Outlaws revenge story, however, plays out against the backdrop of the even larger conflict of the Old West vs. the New West. Burgade an aging retired lawman, and Provo, a decades-old escaped convict, both represent the âLast Hard Menâ of the title, rugged frontiersmen whose extensive knowledge of western terrain is quickly becoming irrelevant in the face of advancing technology. As in other westerns signifying the slow death of the Old West, knowledge of the rapidly diminishing way of life of the older frontiersmen proves to be an asset to Provoâs plans, which leaves the aging lawman Burgade as the only man truly capable of bringing Provo to justiceâ frontier style.
The Last Hard Men has everything one expects from a decent western, including a plethora of colorful characters and the occasional lesson on tracking or outdoor survival. Garfield is always a solid read, whether itâs western justice or inner-city vigilantism, and The Last Hard Men is no exception.
Hardy Western Fiction
Author Brian Garfield is best known for his brutal action thriller, "Death Wish," in which an average man goes gunning for revenge against the people who destroyed his family. But Garfield has also been a prolific Western writer as well. That's not all that surprising; turn the clock back a century or so, and "Death Wish" would have made a good Western. In fact, Garfield explored that same theme of revenge in "The Last Hard Men." a book that's as brutal in its own way as "Death Wish" was.
"The Last Hard Men" is the story of two men on opposite sides of the law who are obsessed with each other. Sam Burgade is a semi-retired lawman in 1914 Arizona, living with his widowed daughter.
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Title: The Last Hard Man
Author: Brian Garfield
Narrator: Kristoffer Tabori
Format: Unabridged
Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
Language: English
Release date: 11-12-12
Publisher: Audible Studios
Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense
Publisher's Summary:
After breaking free from a chain gang, the prisoners seek refuge in the desert.
Zach Provo saw the dawn of the twentieth century from inside the walls of Yumas prison. After twenty-eight years on an Arizona chain gang, Provo seizes an opportunity to escape. He smashes one guards face with a rock, takes his shotgun, and blows the other guard away. Soon the twenty-eight men of the chain gang are on the loose. Provo sends most of them into the desert to hide, holding back the nine smartest fugitives. While the police hunt for the men who ran, his group waits for nightfall, hidden in the mud of a dry riverbed. At dark they sneak back into Yuma.Escape was only the first part of Zach Provos plan. Now comes time to deal with the man who sent him awayand the bloody vengeance of which he has dreamed for decades.
Members Reviews:
A rugged tale of vengeance in the rapidly evolving West.
I donât typically read western novels â films are my preferred medium for that particular genre â so Iâll admit up front that the only reason I picked up The Last Hard Men because of Brian Garfieldâs non-western works such as Death Wish and Hopscotch.
The Last Hard Men (which is actually a 1976 reissue of the 1971 novel Gundown) has two standard western themes running through it. On the surface, The Last Hard Men is a good old fashioned revenge story, as half-Indian convict Zach Provo breaking out of prison - accompanied by a rag-tag group of hardened desperadoes â with the sole intention of delivering bloody, prolonged vengeance to the man who killed his wife and imprisoned him for 37 years, the now ex-Sherrif Max Burgade.
The novelâs Lawmen versus Outlaws revenge story, however, plays out against the backdrop of the even larger conflict of the Old West vs. the New West. Burgade an aging retired lawman, and Provo, a decades-old escaped convict, both represent the âLast Hard Menâ of the title, rugged frontiersmen whose extensive knowledge of western terrain is quickly becoming irrelevant in the face of advancing technology. As in other westerns signifying the slow death of the Old West, knowledge of the rapidly diminishing way of life of the older frontiersmen proves to be an asset to Provoâs plans, which leaves the aging lawman Burgade as the only man truly capable of bringing Provo to justiceâ frontier style.
The Last Hard Men has everything one expects from a decent western, including a plethora of colorful characters and the occasional lesson on tracking or outdoor survival. Garfield is always a solid read, whether itâs western justice or inner-city vigilantism, and The Last Hard Men is no exception.
Hardy Western Fiction
Author Brian Garfield is best known for his brutal action thriller, "Death Wish," in which an average man goes gunning for revenge against the people who destroyed his family. But Garfield has also been a prolific Western writer as well. That's not all that surprising; turn the clock back a century or so, and "Death Wish" would have made a good Western. In fact, Garfield explored that same theme of revenge in "The Last Hard Men." a book that's as brutal in its own way as "Death Wish" was.
"The Last Hard Men" is the story of two men on opposite sides of the law who are obsessed with each other. Sam Burgade is a semi-retired lawman in 1914 Arizona, living with his widowed daughter.