Flints Honor, Richard S. Wheeler
Flints Honor, Richard S. Wheeler
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Flints Honor
The Sam Flint Series, Book 3

Author: Richard S. Wheeler

Narrator: Patrick Cullen

Unabridged: 11 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/17/2009

Categories: Fiction, Western


Synopsis

Sam Flint is a dedicated frontier journalist whose only weapon is the truth. But when he pulls into Silver City to set up his crusading weekly newspaper, he fears hes made a mistake. The overpopulated town is being run into the ground by the corrupt editor of the Silver City Democrat, Digby Westminster. A friend of merchants and flatterer of politicians, the manipulative scoundrel has grown fat ridiculing the miners and working girls while making sure they are ruthlessly taxed into destitution. Flint believes strongly that an honest journalist must challenge the Democrat. But how can he launch his own paper when the whole town is in his rivals pocket?

About Richard S. Wheeler

Richard S. Wheeler is the award-winning author of historical novels, biographical novels, and Westerns. He began his writing career at age fifty, and by seventy-five he had written more than sixty novels. He began life as a newsman and later became a book editor, but he turned to fiction full time in 1987. Wheeler started by writing traditional Westerns but soon was writing large-scale historical novels and then biographical novels. In recent years he has been writing mysteries as well, some under the pseudonym Axel Brand. He has won six Spur Awards from the Western Writers of America and the Owen Wister Award for lifetime achievement in the literature of the American West.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Milo

This book proves the versatility of writing Richard S. Wheeler is capable of. After reading several of his Barnaby Skye novels I ventured into Wheeler's vast knowledge of 1800's printing methods and equipment all contained in a superb story set in a mining town in Colorado. Basically a David vs Golia......more

Goodreads review by Ken

Mr. Wheelers Newspapers Excellent story of a wandering newspaper man with a purpose other than making a living. All three are page turners. Enjoy......more

Goodreads review by Barbi

I loved this old West series and would like to read it again someday.......more