Longarm 299: Longarm and Maximilian's Gold

A rather different slant on the Longarm series.Longarm gets an assignment to escort an arrogant, French, Marquis de Sant Cerre in his search for Maximillian's Gold.The story has some very interesting characters and is sprinkled with lots of history about the early days of the American Southwest,The Louisiana Purchase,French and British involvement and support of the Confederacy during the Civil War.Now, throw in some involvement of the struggle for land with Mexico,and a hunt for treasure,of what kind who knows ,and whether it is supposed to be in Gros Teton,Texas or Gros Teton,New Mexico;has Longarm as baffled as he seldom becomes.Add to that, lots of people trying to eliminate our hero;and with some very close results;we are treated to a great fast- action episode with many interesting twists and turns.Included throughout, are many well written lines lines such as,"Longarm reloaded before he walked forward.That one was dead,but if you find a rat in a corn crib,you shouldn't assume it is the only one there," or,"She went out like a candle in a windstorm. Her eyes rolled back in her head and she collapsed ,out cold."