The Searcher by F.M. Parker


The Searcher
Title : The Searcher
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ISBN : 1908400358
ISBN-10 : 9781908400352
Language : English
Format Type : Kindle Edition
Number of Pages : 267
Publication : First published February 1, 1985

Escaping from a Comanche raid that killed their parents, sixteen year old Sam Tollin and his strikingly beautiful thirteen year old sister Sarah, race to Tucson seeking help. Young and inexperienced, they become easy prey of ruthless men. Before they can get to the law or the army, their money is stolen and they are kidnapped and hauled off on a Mexican wagon train to be sold as slaves in Mexico.

However one of Sam’s and Sarah’s captors has made an enemy of Two Foxes, a Comanche warrior. Two Foxes stalks the wagon train seeking revenge on the Mexican. While killing his enemy, Two Foxes helps Sam to escape. Sam can not help Sarah escape and still escape himself. He vows to Sarah that he will return and rescue her. He leaves, filled with his need for vengeance against the Mexicans and to keep his vow to rescue his beloved sister. If he can survive long enough.

Following Two Foxes, Sam meets up with a hard bitten band of outlaws on a trek across the desert to California. Realizing he will need money and weapons, Sam joins the outlaws in their planned raid on the rich ranchos of California. Kept alive in the beginning within the brutal outlaw gang by the horribly disfigured gunman, Zimmer, Sam’s perilous adventure forces harsh lessons upon him and he matures from an innocent boy into a hard-bitten, steel eyed young man. With his conversion to a skilled pistolero completed, Sam sets out to keep his vow of vengeance and to rescue the sister he was forced to abandon, and who is now held prisoner by the fastest of pistoleros in his fortress rancho deep within Mexico.

The Searcher Reviews

  • Ward G

    A decent tale.
    Of a young man's journey into the outlaw life.

    The circumstances leading up to it.
    As well as how he first moves into it, just to stay alive.
    Then starts using it.
    To learn how to gain skills.
    Needed to find and fight. For the younger sister, stolen away.

    To track her down, and set her free.
    Some of the final scenes, maybe not as realistic to swallow.
    As it involves him dealing with a different culture and group of challenges.
    That make it seem not that easy, as everything falls into place.

    Still it does wrap things up, and give some story closure.
    All in all, a decent western tale.

  • Randy Grossman

    Pretty close to as good as any Louis L'Amour books I've read. I have a couple "complaints". The was a prologue that made no sense to me nor had anything to do with the story that almost made me give up on the read before I got into the actual story. But once I started that part of the book it kept my interest with enough action and problems that need to be solved. The conclusion seemed to be a bit rushed and there was a group of criminals that "got away" with their crimes. But, I could read more by this author.