Continuing the print fiction reading binge...
Title: Town Called Fury Judgment Day
Author: William W. and J.A. Johnstone
Date: 2007
ISBN: 978-0-7840-2878-8
Length: 216 pages
Quote: "The whites had done nothing to them. But just the fact that they existed was a thorn in Soaring Hawk's--and Lone Wolf's--side."
However unfairly treated, Native Americans were not all uniformly nice people, any more than European immigrants were. So here is an oldfashioned "western" where all the Apache characters are thoroughgoing baddies. All they are there to do is kill White men. Lots of shootouts, arson, murder, and mayhem follow until, in order to save the town of Fury, Sheriff Jason has to fight a duel with Lone Wolf. Jason's wife and sister also take wounds, but, unlike most real Western towns of that time, Fury has a doctor whose patients survive being stitched back together.
Oh, and a happy ending for Jason's sister involves dumping a husband she despises--not watching him grow into a man she can respect, nor yet losing him in the way Victorian families tended to lose weak members.
I was not thrilled by J.A.'s addition to the Johnstone corpus. Some "western" readers may like it.
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