The Gun

by Lyle Brandt

Book Overview

A powerful new voice in Western fiction, Lyle Brandt delivers a haunting portrayal of one gunfighter's isolation reflected against the majestic landscape that is the American West. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0425186954
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: Berkley
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.8" x 0.8" x 4.3"

Customer Reviews

WHAT ARE FRIENDS FOR, IF NOT TO HELP?

Anyone who has read the long standing Executioner series of men' action/adventure books has heard of Michael Newton. But who knew he could write such engrossing and entertaining westerns? With the character of Matt Price he has struck gold, expecially humanly showing Matt to tired and weary of burying in double figures, less fast gunmen. All he has to show for a lifetime of gunfighting is his horse and nowhere in particular to go. So up comes another young gunny trying to make a rep and also comes a telegram prior to the fight from an old friend 10-years back. 'Come to Texas, need help' is pretty much what Belle has written. True to friendship and more, Matt heads out to Texas, several week's ride away. Stepping full force into a hornet's nest of greed, killing, and a past that just hasn't gone away. As this book weaves way to an ending we begin to like and approve of Matt Price more and more. He has a son, Jesse, now that he never knew about, that very fact will change his life in this book as well as the others that follow. I'm a late comer to these books of Lyle Brandt (Michael Newton) but have now purchased all, and have even read his 1st book in the new series, LAWMAN, too. 2nd LAWMAN due out soon. As long as Lyle Brandt/Michael Newton continues to write 'em, I'll be reading them. Semper Fi.

best NEW Western you'll find

Terrific book! Who'd believe a new modern Western could be this good?Matt Price is the fastest gun alive.But a good smart moral man,trapped by his own speed and knowing what's ahead. In a dusty town after a blazing-fast reputation-hunting kid draws a little too slowly against him, Price gets a telegram.The woman he loved ten years before --who left him because she saw him gun down two men who came against him in the night--is in trouble. Most modern Westerns are terrible. Bad Westerns and bad pornography.Matt Price is a stand-up guy. Ethical,troubled,thoughtful, gentle in his own way. And the best there is at what he does, when forced to it. A rousing tale..

very good western genre writer

get this one and the sequel--justice gun, and finish them in one sitting. this writer is better than others who just got more hypes and better marketing strategies but would not surpass this new upcoming and very promising writer. so far, only louis la'mour and a few others are actually readable in this genre. mr brandt will be definitely among these few. tks very much.

Pretty Good Start to New Series

When I first started reading this book, I thought I was galloping straight into cliche-land. What saved the book for me was the characters. They were likable and fleshed out pretty well, so I cared about what was going to happen. The bad guy was suitably bad, and there's plenty of gun-fighting action. Ought to be, based on the title. I look forward to reading the next book in the series.