Hondo
Louis L'amour
Originally published 1953
Not, to my mind, L'amour's best western novel but it was his first and set the template that so many of his other works would follow. The strong man rides into protect a woman and boy from the hostile Apaches.
L'amour's punchy economical tale never fails to raise the temperature and get the reader turning the pages quicker than a rattler on a hot plate.
Excellent writing from the man who remains without a doubt the best known name in western writing. This book has sold over two million copies and is currently available in deluxe softcover and an audio version.
Excellent.
3 comments:
Hondo: Great book/great movie. I am going in a slightly different direction this week. I just picked up The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour: The Crime Stories.
DAVID - I've got two volumes of the Frontier stories. I'd like that crime one myself.
Hondo was definitely a very good book. I believe it was one of the very first ones I read by L'Amour. I borrowed it from my brother in law, who was a big fan.
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