Typical of the Johnstone estate to just over repeat the same shit over and over and torment the reader with the repetitiveness of it. Just how many times can Matt and Sam be creased by bullets? Feel bullets going by their heads or the heat from them? Or have bullet holes in shirt sleeves or fringes shot of jackets (Without hitting them? Making it an unrealistic and unbelievable gunfight in Mexico. Matt, Sam, Seymore, along with people from the town, then the Colton and Paxton ranches wipe them out and end the book 75 to 100 pages sooner and avoid the 'Ghost Writer' rushing to the last page, to end the store. Letting them know Alcazarrio's plan, so when the Mexican bandito does show up in Sweet Apple, with his army.

After the gunfighter Cole Halliday shot up Hector's Sombrero. Just feel that it would have been a better story, to have Hector double cross Alcazarrio, due to Marshall Standish's standing up for him, along with Matt and Sam ready to jump in if needed. Johnstone you'll like and if you've read his work, you'll be disappointed. If you never read a book written by the late William W. At least Matt Bodine and Sam Two Wolves, aren't lost in this one, playing second fiddle like in the last book.

This probably was the correction for the error of 100 pages missing from Book 11 in the series. Johnstone had lived for many years in Shreveport, Louisiana, yet died in Knoxville, TN, at the age of 65. He also authored two novels under the pseudonym William Mason. His main publication series were Mountain Man, The First Mountain Man, Ashes and Eagles and his own personal favorite novel was The Last of the Dog Team (1980). He wrote close to two hundred books in numerous genres, including suspense and horror. Johnstone started his writing career in 1970, but did not have any works published until 1979 ( The Devil's Kiss) and became a full-time writer in 1980. He later served in the Army and, upon returning to civilian life, worked in radio broadcasting for 16 years. He quit school when he was fifteen and worked in a carnival and as a deputy sheriff. His father was a minister and his mother a school teacher. William Wallace Johnstone was a prolific American author, mostly of western, horror and survivalist novels.īorn and raised in southern Missouri, Johnstone was the youngest of four children.

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