Donovan

By Elmer Kelton

Book Overview

Donovan was supposed to be dead. The town of Dry Fork, southern Texas, had buried him years before when Uncle Joe Vickers had fired off both barrels of a shotgun into the vicious outlaw's face as he was escaping from jail. Now, Uncle Joe has been shot-in just the same way. And Judge Upshaw had found a noose hanging on his door. It looked as though Donovan was back-gunning for the people who had tracked him down and tried him. Sheriff Webb Matlock, a stern, quiet man, had more than one reason to find Donovan; Matlock was in love with the woman he had believed to be Donovan's widow; moreover, there were rumors that his hotheaded younger brother Sandy might have joined up with Donovan's gang. For his own peace of mind, and to protect the townspeople who had been threatened, Matlock decided to slip across the border, find Donovan in his Mexican hideout, and bring him back-or kill him.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0765343002
• ISBN13: 9780765343000
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: Forge
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.0" x 7.1"

Customer Reviews

Sheriff Webb Matlock is on Donovan's Trail

This is a GOOD one by Elmer Kelton. I am reviewing it from my Ace Charter edition published in April 1985 which I have owned since November 1986. It was first copyrighted in 1966 as Elmer Kelton was being "discovered" by the reading public. In Donovan we have a great book about a town in southern Texas, Dry Fork, which seethed with greed, and corruption, and shady people who wanted to run things their own way. But the sheriff, for his own peace of mind and to protect the townspeople decided to find Donovan who was supposedly dead by a blast from a shotgun into the outlaw's face a few years before. But it seems as though it wasn't him who was killed, and that left a mystery of huge proportions for him to solve. And if that meant going into Mexico to locate Donovan and bring him back, so be it. This is a novel not to be missed. Written in the style of readability one can understand. Elmer Kelton has succeeded big time with this one.

Donovan

Elmer Kelton somehow continues to come up with great western cowboy stories; particularly about Texas. This one would make a wonderful movie of the same caliber as his "Good Old Boys".