Longarm and the Palo Duro Monster

Just another wonderful, exciting, tension-filled, lusty 'oater' by Tabor Evans, the coordinator of many western writers. The writing styles are often noticably different, but this one in the series tells the story swift and sure, and has the shootouts and ladies in fine order. This time Longarm is after vicious killer Simon Grimm who butchered an entire family. There are a few close calls, but Longarm prevails in the end. A typical line of dialogue, after Longarm just beat the holy hell of the town bully Duer, from a gambler in the saloon about the beaten bully, "Why don't he stay down. The feller (Longarm) that's kickin' his big dumb ass don't appear to be the least bit tired." Another entertaining one with some unique originality...a good yarn about the Old West and the lawmen.

If you are a fan of the Longarm series, you will enjoy this one. Like all the western novels in this series, there is plenty of action, both in and out of the bedroom. This yarn begins quickly not with a shoot out but with a hot and lusty roll with in bed with the beautiful and always horny Cora Fisher. In no time our deputy marshall is on his way to another assignment hunting down a spooky and brutal killer named Simon Grimm. Along the way he picks up a few men and one straight shooting revengeful woman. As always, my reviews of novels will never give away too much and spoil it for the reader. Rating: 5 Stars. Joseph J. Truncale (Author: Martial Art Myths, Never Trust a Politician, Season of the Warrior, Combatives Vol. 1, 2, Persuader Defense Systems).

This is one of the most unusual episodes I've come across in this long running series,for several reasons.First of all,I'm sure the author of this episode in new to me,as I can't recall any other one with near as much flowery,descriptive language.It runs through the whole story ;let me give you an example. Here's how he describes Marshal Vail's clerk ,Henry,when Longarm entered the office. "Marshall Billy Vail's edgy,bespeckled chief clerk jumped as though shot when Longarm slammed his way into their boss's outer office.Startled and surprised by the deputy's bearish,abrupt entrance,the owl-eyed Henry hopped away from a job at his newfangled typewriting apparatus.He came nigh on to standing at attention,coughed,and with a visible display of teeth-gritting irritation waved his private kingdom's most recent invader toward the open door of the U.S. marshal's inner sanctum.Grumbled indecipherable epitahs issued from the fussy gent's twisted mouth as he flounced into his seat and went back to hunting-and pecking at the ivory-colored keys of the clattering iron machine perched atop his desk like a hungry black buzzard." I nearly fell over with this,and wondered what we were in store for when our hero becomes involved in his enevitable shootout,fight to the finish with some desperado or encounter with some wild beauty of the West,as he is sure to do. The character that Marshal Vail sends Longarm to hunt down is ,to say the leasst,one of the most unbelievable owlhoots Longarm has ever encountered and the descriptions by the writer,are something to behold. It's a great yarn,filled with all kinds of suspense and excitement. I have no idea what other things this author has done ;but this is an excellent,though very different approach for this series.