California Carnage

Skye Fargo is hired to help establish the first stagecoach line along the Old Mission Trail. Along with the dangers the landscape puts in their way there's also Hiram Stoddard, a powerful, ruthless man, and competitor. A man who will stop at nothing to be the first to set this route up. A man with plenty of hired guns to back his play. Now The Trailsman has to beat a path through the bush and the opposition if he's going to make it out alive... The first thing long-time readers of this series will notice is that Skye Fargo is back to using a Sharps, something that I welcome as this always made The Trailsman stand out from other series as most of the others have their hero using a Henry or Winchester - depending on the time period the books are set in. As expected from a Trailsman book you get an entertaining, fast moving, action packed read, into which Jon Sharpe even manages to include some ghosts giving part of the story a very eerie atmosphere. The story builds well as it races towards it final showdown making for a hard to put down book filled with interesting characters - two of whom fall in love and this reader hoped they would make it to the end alive. Did they? You'll have to read the book to find out. Recommended.