Laconic drifter Adam Steele comes across a group of young couples outrunning a secret in George G. Gilman's Wagons East.
Adam Steele is Gilman's lesser-known Western character after Edge, the star of a long string of violent western paperbacks in the 60s and 70s. I picked up an Edge book after seeing them promoted ceaselessly in the backs of other paperbacks, but found it rather unpleasant and written in an unusual style.
Steele seems to be more of a traditional western hero, and the plot of this one holds few surprises as well. Steele, although not as well recognized today as Edge, still managed to star in close to 50 of his own titles, so readers were finding and apparently enjoying him.
I again had trouble adjusting to Gilman's writing, written in a staccato style and featuring lots of quips and puns. I think I will have to try a larger sampling size before deciding what I think of Gilman's work.
I bought this in a large stack of goodbye paperbacks at a flea market in Richmond, Indiana.
Adam Steele is Gilman's lesser-known Western character after Edge, the star of a long string of violent western paperbacks in the 60s and 70s. I picked up an Edge book after seeing them promoted ceaselessly in the backs of other paperbacks, but found it rather unpleasant and written in an unusual style.
Steele seems to be more of a traditional western hero, and the plot of this one holds few surprises as well. Steele, although not as well recognized today as Edge, still managed to star in close to 50 of his own titles, so readers were finding and apparently enjoying him.
I again had trouble adjusting to Gilman's writing, written in a staccato style and featuring lots of quips and puns. I think I will have to try a larger sampling size before deciding what I think of Gilman's work.
I bought this in a large stack of goodbye paperbacks at a flea market in Richmond, Indiana.
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