Desert Death Song

I listened to this short audiobook of two L'Amour stories while driving on I-80 through the center of Illinois. These stories had in common that the hero in each story is being pursued into the desert by a group of men that are, shall we say unfriendly. One of the hallmarks of Westerns is the thorou......more

Enjoyable read...very! Highly recommended.......more

Louis L'amour's fiction is mostly all the same. Tough guys. Real men. "Country tamers." A few sleaze balls. Throw them into the old west with some crack shots, faithful horses, a quest for water/supplies, and some exposition about campfire etiquette, and you're good to go. You can see plot developme......more

My dad has been a big fan of Louis L'Amour for years, and I finally read (or rather listened to) a couple of his stories. This is pretty short, just over an hour, and has two short stories, each of which feature a wrongly-blamed guy fleeing in the desert from bad people. Each story is pretty straigh......more

These are good westerns. Short, and both books quickly draw you into the story of a man on the run in the desert. Both men are in the wrong but are being given unfair biased justice. The first story was too descriptive of the desert itself. Despite the detail, I could still just envision sand and ro......more