Sweep of Fury Clay Dempsey -western fiction review

A venture such as this - the attempt to publish 100 posts over a weekend cannot be done by one man, or even two or three. And so many of the authors with the Black Horse group have helped by providing up coming posts. But I want to extend special thanks to both Steve M of Western Fiction Review and Evan Lewis of Davy Crockett's Almanack - these two guys have given me permission to steal any Black Horse title reviews from their sites and use them as part of the weekend.

With each review used there will be a link to the original post.

So thanks Guys,


SWEEP OF FURY
As by Dempsey Clay
A Black Horse Western from Hale, October 2009
Killer Jimmy Tucker wanted to die.

‘Do it now, Gant,’ he begged the stone-faced lawman. ‘Don’t let ‘em swing me off their gallows. Just shoot me now!’

He was pleading with the wrong man. The Marshals’ Manual was Gant’s bible.

‘The law says you’re to hang, Tucker,’ he pronounced, ‘and I’ll see that you do it.’

‘You ain’t human, Gant!’

Gant nodded. Maybe Tucker was half-right but he’d still swing. The next badman to receive mercy from Marshal Gant would be the first.

Marshal Gant makes for an excellent hero, a proud man who backs down from no one, a man who lives to the letter of the law. A man who is aiming to retire after seeing Tucker hang. But there’s history there too, ghosts from the past that need setting to rest. And then there’s the possibility that Gant’s law could be wrong… MORE