Book Review: ‘Showdown’ by William W. Johnstone
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Jan.27, 2021, under Books
Showdown by William W. Johnstone
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
‘The Last Gunfighter’ series is appearing to be the better of the many Johnstone Clan series. This one one starts badly and then continues into a fun tale.
It’s a tired tale, even among the hundreds of Johnstone Clan books. The book tumbles into the premise with a whole series of outsiders suddenly finding the famous Frank Morgan. How this happens is not really explained except for some mention of detectives. Considering the book states Morgan happened to the town, that was quick work by detectives and travel from the northeast to Arizona.
All goes awry as the outsiders plans go out-of-control as bad guys will be bad guys. Seems a stretch the outsiders – not a one – expected even the potentiality. All leads to the fun of Frank Morgan cleaning out the mess. That is the fun and worth of the book.
Writing is standard Johnstone clan. Many characters are duplicates of so many before. Dialogue standard. Great characters.
Bottom line: I recommend this book. 7 out of ten points.
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