Damnation Road

Name: Damnation Road
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Max McCoy
ISBN: 9781470327972

Author: Max McCoy

Narrator: Henry Strozier

Unabridged: 7 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 11/23/2012

Categories: Fiction, Western

Synopsis

It's the last chance for Jacob Gamble, Rough Rider, outlaw and man of a few principles. Nearing 50 and flat broke, Jacob bends his own rule about robbing trains. But by the time he reaches the payroll safe on a Rock Island train, he finds another thief there first with a bullet in his head. Jacob is caught holding the bag - and turned into hero. A broke hero. Shackled by unwanted fame, running from a life gone wrong, and raising the suspicions of a Pinkerton detective, Jacob listens to a woman: beautiful and tattooed by the Indians who seized her as a child. Olivia Weathers knows of a treasure hidden in a cave along the Jornada del Muerto - a merciless hundred mile stretch of hell on earth guarded by Apache warriors. Now, Jacob will follow Olivia into the most savage and deadly territory in the southwest - where few ever come out of Canyon Diablo alive.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jeff on March 03, 2024

Damnation Road, Max McCoy (western) Jeff Book Review #294 A newer Spur-award winner, "Damnation Road" (2010) follows an old outlaw named Jacob Gamble as he dodges some bounty hunters in 1898 after sticking his nose into an ugly situation in order to save some abused people from even further troubles.......more

Goodreads review by Jason on August 09, 2013

After reading one of McCoy's Indiana Jones books, I knew I had to check more of his work out. That book was one of the best I've ever read. I then found out he writes a lot of Westerns, which I love, so I jumped at the chance to read this book. The main character kind of reminds me of Tom Selleck's......more

Goodreads review by Dave on August 20, 2015

I wanted to like this book more, but the 5-6 "F" bombs were too much as well as the 2-3 brief sexual innuendos. The plot jumped around a little bit with flashbacks but wasn't too bad to follow. The twist at the end was good. I would have liked a little more closure of some of the little sub-plots. W......more

Goodreads review by Nathan on August 15, 2016

A little uneven and meandering in the plot department, and McCoy keeps wanting to show off all the accurate historical detail he's acquired, but a decent read nonetheless.......more

Goodreads review by Mark on January 07, 2016

Winner, 2011 Spur Award for Best Original Mass Market Paperback......more