Reillys Luck, Louis LAmour
Reillys Luck, Louis LAmour
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Reilly's Luck

Author: Louis L'Amour

Narrator: Beau Bridges

Unabridged: 8 hr 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/12/2011

Synopsis

Val Darrant was just four years old the snowy night his mother abandoned him. But instead of meeting a lonely death, he met Will Reilly—a gentleman, a gambler, and a worldly, self-taught scholar. For ten years they each were all the family the other had, traveling from dusty American boomtowns to the glittering cities of Belle Époque Europe—until the day Reilly’s luck ran out in a roar of gunfire. 

But it wasn’t a gambling brawl or a pack of thieves that sealed Will’s fate. It was a far more complex story that Val would soon uncover—one that would bring him face-to-face with the one person he least wants to see: his mother. With the help of a beautiful, street-smart rancher and the woman who was Will Reilly’s lost love, Val must close this last cruel chapter of his past before he can turn the page on an uncertain future.

About The Author

Louis L’Amour is the only novelist in history to receive both the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal. He has published ninety novels; twenty-seven short-story collections; two works of nonfiction; a memoir, Education of a Wandering Man; and a volume of poetry, Smoke from This Altar. There are more than 300 million copies of his books in print.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Adam on February 19, 2022

This book made my top 5 fiction books that I read in 2021, check it out!: [URL not allowed]-0nySwQ After previously reading the relentlessly dark and pessimistic Her Smoke Rose Up Forever by James Tiptree Jr., L’Amour’s ‘aw shucks, man raises orphan because it’s the right thing to do’ coming of a......more

Goodreads review by Oleta on March 08, 2023

This is one of my favorite books by Mr. L'Amour. I have read almost all of them but I keep coming back to this one over and over. I guess in many ways it is a coming of age story. Valentine "Val" Darrant is a boy of four years at the start of the story and it follows him into adulthood. There are th......more

Goodreads review by Jim on October 22, 2014

I had fond memories of this novel & should have kept them. Beau Bridges read the book. His gravelly voice was OK for some parts, but the women's voices were horrible & a couple of women had very important parts in the novel. Still, he was OK for the adult male parts & was acceptable for the boy's. Un......more

Goodreads review by Rich on July 30, 2024

This is one of my favorite Louis L'Amour books. A gambler takes in an abandoned child and raises him in the old west. Eventually, Rielly, the gambler is ambushed and killed. The boy goes east, and gets an education, but eventually returns to the west, ultimately finding himself up against a formidab......more

Goodreads review by Brian on August 11, 2021

This is my favorite of the 8 or 9 L'Amours I've read over the years. He wrote Reilly's Luck in 1970. Will Reilly is a loner, like most L'Amour heroes. A friend comes to him asking an incredible favor - take this four year-old boy whose mother wanted him left out in the prairie to freeze. The boy act......more

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