Pride of the Mountain Man by William W. Johnstone

My rating: 2 of 5 stars


This entry was during the Smoke Jensen series where needless and irritating flashbacks were common. A few books before this a number of the books had nearly a fifth of the novel set in flashbacks.At this point the flash backs had lessened, but still makeup 15 pages or so. This was among the problems with the book.

Depending on the ghost writer a version of Smoke is presented. In this one Smoke curses and less sure of himself (Which does lean away from the typical super hero antics of gun play). The entire tenor of the book is much more violent and gory than other tales of Smoke. The writer further veers from consistency with the series characters acting out of character and the plotting being better than others in the series.

The direction of the plotting would make this book better than most, but I recognized the plot from other books of the Johnstone Clan. There are also errors editors should have caught. The real problem is the entire construction of the book with the Johnstones, editors, writer and cover designer not paying attention to the 21 books before this one or the make up of this book.

This is still another book in the series with a silly book title and cover.

Bottom line: i don’t recommend this book. 5 out of ten points.



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