Book of Murdock

My first Murdock read--it was alright, with good descriptive work painting a detailed picture behind the adventure. The story itself was kind of flat, but with our rapidly advancing technology so dramatically altering the settings familiar to past generations, the stories of the olden times will reg......more

Great western......more

Not quite a full four, but edging toward it. Murdock is a very solid western character and the writing excellent. A few more guns going off, or bar fights might be nice, but I am still hooked.......more

An agnostic lawman named Page Murdock is enlisted by a Judge to infiltrate a gang of bandits that is operating in the Texas panhandle. When noting that this gang of bank-, train-, and stage-robbers can smell a lawman from a mile away, the Judge tells Murdock he has to pretend to be a preacher to gai......more

Estleman is one of my many favorite authors, not only for his excellent writing style, but his multi-genre expertise. He knows the city of Detroit(of which, we are both native sons.), noir detectives(Amos Walker), hit men(Peter Macklin), westerns(Page Murdock), and the movie business(Valentino). In......more