Gun-hand Lassiter travels to Mexico to collect on an IOU, and ends up embroiled in local corruption and national politics, in Sidewinder, an entry in the long-running series by "Jack Slade."
Jack Slade was a lot of different people, in this case Frank Castle, considered one of the second-tier scribes of the series.
But I liked this overheated, spaghetti-flavored western, written in a baroque style but never lacking in action.
This one opens with Lassiter digging his own grave, but he quickly escapes only to be jailed a few more times in between killing owlhoots and bedding women.
With a whole Mexican town against him, he hides away dynamite and weapons all over town, and needs them all in fast-paced finale.
I got this western in a Christmas swap in a paperback collecting Facebook group I belong to, and read it quickly on a camping trip.
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