WESTERNS - FICTION

"The Savage Trail" by Charles E. Friend

A fast paced western of murder and revenge

Grant Starbuck, marshal of the small Texas town Comanche Wells, returns home after chasing cattle rustlers to find the town has been looted, ravaged, and most of the buildings burned by a band of bandits from across the Mexican border. Among the dead are his wife and his two small children, found burned to death in the ashes of his home. Grant does not want justice, he wants revenge and he sets out alone to hunt down and kill every one of the murders or die trying. Grant becomes even more enraged during his pursuit as he finds the raped, murdered, and mutilated bodies of some of the women the bandits kidnapped from his town. As he catches up with some of the bandits as they lay in ambush, he guns them down without mercy and continues his chase into the very heart of the bandit’s lair.

Although he sets out alone on his quest for vengeance, Grant gets help along the way from the likes of the Mexican Army, the US Army, and the wife of a murdered rancher, Kate Beaumont. But to say more would spoil the story. Just saddle-up and go along for the ride as Grant Starbuck blazes away with his Colt Peacemaker and frontier justice is served up in it's rawest form.

Review by Kenneth S. Smith 17 May 2002

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