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Title: Stripped-down Western
Review: I had just been introduced to a couple of Parker's Spenser books when I caught sight of this new Western. I'm a Western fan as well as a crime fan.Parker does a reverse Elmore Leonard; moving from crime fiction to the Western. Leonard was one of the best Western writers ever when he moved to the crime genre.As some have pointed out, this book has a pretty standard western plot with the laconic close-to-the-line gunning lawman. But I like Parker's tight, stripped-down prose, particularly the dialog, which reminds me of Leonard's first-class hardboiled Westerns.
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