SOON

From Jack Martin, the author of The Tarnished Star, the fastest selling Black Horse title ever comes Arkansas Smith - a new all action western. Out March 31st 2010 - preorder now - HALE BOOK DEPOSITORY AMAZON


Arkansas Smith, a character that is complex and fascinating. Laurie Powers FULL REVIEW

Praise for The Tarnished Star:

I liked this book. A first novel, Martin deftly handles his characters developing them into true people with their own foibles. Cole Masters, the honorable man, San Bowden, the spoiled young man who’d never been responsible for his actions, Clem Bowden, the father who recognizes his own and his son’s shortcomngs, but as a father, can’t stop himself from doing all the wrong things. Randy Johnson

Up to now we have only known author Jack Martin through his short stories under that name and as Gary Dobbs. So how does he stand up with his first novel.

First off he creates a believable character in Cole Masters and makes the reader feel his humiliation to the point that I wanted this character to come through. Sam Bowden is bad but his father Clem is cut from a different cloth and I would be spoiling this character study by relating the how and why.

Add to this two minor characters Quill and Boyd who's brief passage through the story is quite effective.

For a first novel - it reads like Gary has been doing this all his life and can only get better. Ray Foster AKA Jack Giles

THE TARNISHED STAR is an entertaining, fast-moving story, as are all the books I’ve read from the Black Horse Westerns line. From the pulpish cover to the final showdown in which plenty of bullets fly, it’s a fine, action-packed Western that still manages to be character-driven. You can order it from an assortment of places, including Amazon and The Book Depository (which offers prompt, free shipping worldwide – hard to beat that deal, which is why I ordered THE TARNISHED STAR from them), and if you’re a Western fan, you want to get your hands on this one. James Reasoner