A Shawn Starbuck Western
Rating:
5 / 5
Bounty Hunter's Moon is #23 in the Shawn Starbuck series Ray Hogan wrote as a Signet Brand Western softcover. This series to my knowledge never appeared in hardcover, with all 30 odd books I have in the series being Signet softcovers.
Underlying each story in this series is Shawn's search for his brother, who after quarreling with their father, headed 'west'. With the father now dead, Shawn needs to find his brother not only for reunion, but to settle the estate left to both him and his brother.
Each book has a different setting and different set of circumstances, with this one taking place in New Mexico Territory of 1881. A location Ray Hogan knew very well, living most of his life in New Mexico, with his own father being an early Western marshal and lawman.
This book also has an overtone of the law, with a western sheriff mysteriously murdered Shawn is prevailed upon by the widow to help her getting "...himself drawn into a maze of treachery and death..."
As the previous review mentioned, Ray Hogan's character leap off the page. This series was a widely popular one with this particular one being #23 in the series.
Pick up a copy and you will see why this series continues to hold reader's interest.
Bounty Hunter's Moon by Ray Hogan
Rating:
5 / 5
Bounty Hunter's Moon is an old-fashioned, clean cutmystery/western. Hogan does a realistic job portraying Shawn Starbuckas a lone jack-of-all-trades looking for his long-lost brother in New Mexico Territory. Although finding his lost brother has been his goal for many years, his sets aside his quest (I'm not so sure it's as settled as the opening page claims) in order to do what needs to be done, in the code of the Old West. Hogan's characters leap off the page, and the text flows well, more like a B&W movie than a book. The book has a surprise ending, as do all good books. And it has the heroic gunplay requisite to all great Westerns.Although Starbuck's brother is alegedly dead according to the opening line of this book, I hold out hope that there is a mistake about the message, and there will be another Starbuck adventure. Of course, if there is, it's probably already written as Mr. Hogan is rapidly approaching 100 years old....
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