Rogue Lawman

This is the first in a new series from Peter Brandvold featuring Deputy Marshal Gideon Hawk. Peter Brandvold paints a savage picture of the west, in fact many times his descriptive words created vivid images within my mind. His bad guys are vile and his hero, Gideon Hawk, is definitely an anti-hero who can be as cruel as those he's hunting. If you like westerns with obvious lines between the good and the bad then maybe this isn't for you but, if like me, you enjoy the more savage types of western fiction then get this book now! This book is filled with one violent confrontation after another, tough and at times sadistic action, that will satisfy anyone who likes brutal and bloody. Peter Brandvold has produced a new western character that has me counting down the days until the release of the second book in this series - Deadly Prey.

Deputy US Marshall Gideon Henry Hawk slowly turns vigilante and outlaw in the wake of tragedy, turning his back on the ideals of law and order he believed in. As has been noted elsewhere, a character in the book is named DeRosso. Appropriate, since this novel is in the spirit of pulp and paperback author H.A. DeRosso's noirish Westerns, Brandvold drawing his characters and situations with bold, economic but evocative strokes that lift's it far above the sort of cheap paperback action-adventure Western the bare bones description of the plot resembles.