Longarm and the Pleasant Valley War

By Tabor Evans

In the blood-soaked rangelands of Texas, a powerful ranch fenced in its smaller neighbors-and now the entire valley is about to explode like a powder keg. Deputy Marshal Custis Long will have to slap leather and sling lead before he can lay down the law.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0515147311
• ISBN13: 9780515147315
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: Jove Books
• Length: 187 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.2" x 6.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 12 and higher

Customer Reviews

"Longarm learned in his years of manhunting that expecting the unlikely was the best way to live to

Marshal Billy Vail sends Longarm to Claireville,West Texas,to find out what is going on and resolving a dispute between ranchers in what is becoming known as The Pleasant Valley War. Things have been heating up with cattle missing and people being killed;but who is to be blamed? Longarm,as expected ,meets up with some real interesting characters,some savory and others not so. The writing in this story gets a little drawn out,there is lots of description,some heavy fighting,Longarm is badly injured and almost dies.At times the descriptive writing gets good,as we see here; "Sure as hellfire in a pool of screamin' sinners,the good deputy is not bluffing.I have a feelin',dear Verna,he might be a man to ride the river with,even climb a mountain or two." In the end,Longarm finds himself alone and far outnumbered,when a very unusual thing happens.Not only is our hero saved by the unexpected,the culprits creating all the trouble,are even more unexpected.