| Title | : | Deputy U.S. Marshal (Longarm Double #1) |
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| ISBN | : | - |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Kindle Edition |
| Number of Pages | : | 432 |
| Publication | : | First published July 29, 2008 |
LONGARM
Longarm has a new mission. Ride to Crooked Lance. Pick up Cotton Younger, killer cousin of Jesse James, from the town jail. Bring him to trial. It should be easy. Except for one Deputy Kincaid has already tried it. And Deputy Kincaid is nowhere to be found. Nobody at Crooked Lance wants Longarm to do his job—not the beautiful widow woman, or the Federal Agent, or the James gang—but Longarm never gives up when he has work to do. Even if it kills him…
LONGARM ON THE BORDER
The Mexicans claim it’s a Texas town. The Texans say it’s Mex. Los Perros. A tough, old cow-camp of border-jumpers and price-tagged rustlers—with a “hanging” sheriff of flexible sympathies. The Feds want it cleaned up, the cattle thieves flushed out, the vanished lawmen found. Only one man can do it…
Deputy U.S. Marshal (Longarm Double #1) Reviews
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Sex, Violence and smart ass hombres. This is a wonderful yet did not age well socially western novel. No more white hat vs black hat. It’s a quick read for two novels. And the stories grip you from the first line. Will I read more? Maybe. But I glad I know this series exists. Again, I acknowledge this is not of my era and not socially okay now. But dammit. It’s a fun book as long as you keep that in mind.
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Leave The Sex Out.
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Longarm?
Based on the first two novels collected in this edition, I’m not sure how this became the most popular series in the “Adult Western” genre. It is only “adult” in that it includes gratuitous, explicit sex and fairly graphic depictions of violence. Do not expect “adult” to mean dealing with mature themes or challenging ideas. There are none to be found here.
The plots of both stories are very simple and not really worth detailing. That’s why there is a publisher’s summary. Suffice it to say that the plots are very thin with some large leaps in logic to make the titular “Longarm” seem more smart and capable than the characters he encounters. That’s not hard. If the character is male, he exists to either be a bad guy or to admire “Longarm’s”alpha-maleness. If the character is one of the few females, she exists only to throw herself at “Longarm” and have sex, often at weirdly inappropriate times. The last lines of each story has “Longarm” ruminating about these trysts and thirsty for more.
No, wait. There was a female character that was the mother of one of “Longarm’s” sexual conquests. So, almost every female character has sex with “Longarm”…
Anyway, as odd and off-putting as these elements may be, I was more distracted by one other thing. The author/narrator is the only one to refer to the main character as “Longarm”. The others in the story refer to him as some variation of U.S. Deputy Marshall Custis Long. Why call the series “Longarm” if no one in the story calls the character by that name? It boggles my mind more than a bit, and actually makes me want to read a later book in the series (I think there’s a few hundred different stories to choose from) just to see if anyone ever calls Custis “Longarm”.
So, yeah. This was something that I read when exploring various genres. -
I've always wanted to read the first Longarm books as written by the original author. As long as I have been reading this series, you can certainly tell the different authors.
