THE DEVIL'S RIGHT HAND

The story is now live at Beat to a Pulp

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Tarnished Star reviews

New TARNISHED STAR REVIEW HERE

JACK MARTIN AUTHOR WEEKEND

Is now happening at - BLACK HORSE EXPRESS

You'll need to sign up to take part in the forum - it's a great group for all western fans.

WESTERN FICTION REVIEW

The TARNISHED STAR is also reviewed on the excellent Western Fiction Review HERE

I'M EXCITED NOW

James Reasoner, one of the finest and well respected western writers working today has reviewed my novel, Tarnished Star HERE

Thanks to everyone who has posted a review for this book - I love you all.

BROKEN TRAIL BY ALAN GEOFFRION

Broken Trail
Alan Geoffrion
Pinacle import £7.99

I very much enjoyed Walter Hills' movie Broken Trail which had Robert Duvall in the starring role. So much so that I snapped up the source material for the film as soon as I saw it looking back at me from the rapidly shrinking western section at my local Borders - (Borders Llantrisant - you need to get some new westerns in at once.)

The author is a friend of Duvall (They are pictured together below) and wrote the novel with the actor in mind for the part of the aging cowboy, Print Ritter who with his nephew Tom who set out to drive a herd of unshod horses to Wyoming to sell to the British who are desperate for good horses to send out to their troops fighting the Boar War.

On their eventful trip they save a group of Chinese girls who are destined for the many brothels springing up on the frontier. The pair, together with the girls, and a tragic cowboy named Billy they face up to everything the trail has to throw at them - Indians, bad weather, sickness and outlaws.

There is much more background given to the Chinese girls in the novel than transferred to the screen and there is also a scene set during the Boar War that highlights the amount of horses the British were losing on the battlefield. As in the film it is the character of the aged cowboy that really carries the story forward. It's a great western adventure set very much in the traditional style.

JACK MARTIN WEEKEND ON THE BLACK HORSE WESTERN FORUM

This SAT/SUN the Black Horse Express forum will hold another of it's author weekends when the forum is given over to a specific author for the weekend. This weekend it's your truly, Jack Martin. I'll be taking questions most of Sat and all of Sunday - you'll have to be a forum member to take part and anyone wishing to do so can join the Black Horse group - HERE.

It's a great group made up of authors and readers of western fiction.

Also Jack Martin related - this weekend Beat to a Pulp will run my short western, The Devil's Right Hand which is short western story. I was thinking of Louis L'Amour and Zane Grey when I wrote this one. And hope I've captured something of the classic style. If you do like this story then the site also holds an earlier Jack Martin western, A Man called Masters.

And also this coming Tuesday sees the official publication of my novel, The Tarnished Star but it's available right now from all the usual sources. HERE

Below are some of the reviews for The Tarnished Star


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