Gun-for-Hire Neal Fargo owes Pancho Villa a favor, and ends up in the middle of a land war between Mexican-Americans and a crooked Texas Ranger in John Benteen's Fargo and the Texas Rangers.
Benteen was really Ben Haas, and one of my favorites of the prolific paperback writers. Fargo is a series character--and despite the book's cover--this actually isn't a true western but more of a Men's Adventure novel, an early 20th Century story set square during World War I on the Texas-Mexico border.
Benteen knows how to write hard-nosed action, and plenty of it, and this one doesn't stint, including a memorable knife fight on horseback and a street fight between two tripod-mounted machine guns.
I got this in a big stack of John Benteen novels from a friend trying to turn me into a fan (he was successful), and I read it quickly.
Benteen was really Ben Haas, and one of my favorites of the prolific paperback writers. Fargo is a series character--and despite the book's cover--this actually isn't a true western but more of a Men's Adventure novel, an early 20th Century story set square during World War I on the Texas-Mexico border.
Benteen knows how to write hard-nosed action, and plenty of it, and this one doesn't stint, including a memorable knife fight on horseback and a street fight between two tripod-mounted machine guns.
I got this in a big stack of John Benteen novels from a friend trying to turn me into a fan (he was successful), and I read it quickly.
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