Gun-hand Carmody decides, at the spur of the moment, to rob a small bank, only to cross a gang who also wanted to rob it; when they beat him mercilessly in the middle of the street, he won't rest until the whole gang is dead in Peter McCurtin's Tall Man Riding.
McCurtin was an extremely prolific writer and editor across many genres; Carmody was a western series character that appeared in a number of volumes.
To say Carmody is an anti-hero is putting it mildly; he kills men and beds women without much of a thought for either throughout. To that end, it would be most polite to say that the book is a product of its time, with race relations and gender relations not portrayed in a contemporary vein.
But McCurtin is just a cracking good paperback writer, and I've found his books to be enjoyable for discriminating readers.
I got this in a batch of mixed western paperbacks from a friend and read it quickly.
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