Ronicky Doone

First in a series of three. Bill Gregg sees a picture of a girl and goes after her, with Doone helping him go find her. The trail leads to N.Y. city where the girl and a girl friend of hers are being held against their wills. Spoiler Alert: Bill Gregg gets his girl(Caroline) and it's up in the air a......more

When a stranger rides into town in a cloud of dust on a horse almost ridden to death and demands a fresh mount and directions to a nearby town, the reader settles down in his (or her) chair and prepare to enjoy a tale of the old west. This narrative is far from your typical western mainly because it......more

The book was written in 1921, the communication style and culture was completely different to post modern times. It's was an entertaining book but clearly not realistic when you associate to western movies today compared to 1950's black and white films such as The Rifleman and compare that to Unforg......more

Though I usually always enjoy Brand's writing, the plot of Ronicky Doone veers into the somewhat fantastical territory where he sometimes liked to go, with rather exaggerated characters. There's the nearly infallible super-criminal who has a strange fascination and hold over people, and the hero who......more

Melodramatic to the point that the dialogue is often overwrought and silly, emotionally unsatisfying, and an uneasy mixture of competent and turgid prose, this book does not have much to recommend it other than the novelty of setting most of this Western novel in New York City. Two country boys head......more