Brionne: A Novel

When Brionne put Allard in jail, just before he was hung he vowed his brothers would get even...Four years later they did, killing Brionne's wife, Anne. Hurt and without much to live for Brionne took his son and went west. But Allard's brothers were still not finished; there was more revenge yet to come to Brionne. This is one of the better L'Amour westerns which I can recommend as it does begin quickly and keeps the reader wanting to know what is going to happen next.

L'Amour's story of a man whose wife has killed herself before a band of thieves and thugs can rape and murder her, keeps your interest from the first. Brionne's concern with his son, traumatized by witnessing his mother's attack and death, and his attempt to help a young woman in distress take him to wild country where the same band of outlaws are trying to kill him, his son, the young woman, and anyone else traveling with him. A good story.

I liked Brionne quite a bit. The country seemed so real, and I liked the history of the main character. Read this L'Amour for sure, and if you like it read Kirby Jonas's Legend of the Tumbleweed. The call Jonas the New Louis L'Amour, and I concur. They write like a matched pair, and I'd be proud to recommend anything by either of them.

This is a heart-warming, and a tear-shedding story that revolves around Brionne -the father- and his young but ready to learn only son his wife left behind! Brionne leaves all the hard memories behind and seek for a whole new peaceful life in some other spot of the land but the trouble come after which put Brionne in a difficult situation! May not be the best of L'Amour writings but it's surely nice, and will keep you reading till you reach the end of the story!