The Warrior's Path: The Sacketts

Barnabas Sackett is no more and the story transitions to the next generation. Word comes from the small colonies in distant New England that Kin and Yance Sackett's sister-in-law, Diana, has been kidnapped. To a Sackett blood is truly thicker than water and the two frontiersmen race up the coast, cr......more

Now that was a lot better than the last one (To the Far Blue Mountains). A tight story with great pacing and the hero you'd expect from L'Amour. I liked Kin Sackett, though haring off to the Caribbean was a bit of an odd start. I liked Diana even better, though, and find it a relief that L'Amour's w......more

A good, but not great, entry into the Sackett series. The story was exciting, but quite cliched. There was never any doubt about what was going to happen next. I enjoyed the excursion to Port Royal. This was not the best written story by L'Amour. He actually repeated one paragraph in two separate pl......more

Been on a Louis L’Amour reading bender. Enjoyed this story of Kin Sackett and Diana. White slavery, piracy, West Indies and Indians all feature. Ok the coincidences are far fetched but for escapism literature Amour is a master. As I recall Kin only featured in this story. On to Jubal Sackett the nex......more

I'd forgotten much of the plot of this book in the years since I first read it. But stepping back into a Louis L'amour book reminded me once again why I spent much of my teen years reading these books. One thing Louis L'amour does really well is the descriptions of land. He's accurate, with the eye......more