Scream of Eagles (The Eagles) - Softcover

Johnstone, William W.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0786004479 ISBN 13: 9780786004478

Publisher: Pinnacle Books, 1997

Synopsis

Grieving over the murder of his beloved wife of forty-five years at the hands of the infamous Miles Nelson gang, Jamie MacCallister, a hero of the Alamo and the Civil War, and his sons set out to deliver their own brand of justice. Reprint.

About this title

About the Author:

William W. Johnstone is the USA Today and New York Times bestselling author of over 300 books, including Preacher, The Last Mountain Man, Luke Jensen Bounty Hunter, Flintlock, Savage Texas, Matt Jensen, The Last Mountain Man; The Family Jensen, Sidewinders, and Shawn O'Brien Town Tamer . His thrillers include Phoenix Rising, Home Invasion, The Blood of Patriots, The Bleeding Edge, and Suicide Mission. Visit his website at www.williamjohnstone.net or by email at dogcia2006@aol.com.

From Publishers Weekly:

Twelve years?and any sense of realism?have gone up in smoke since Jamie MacCallister fought for the Confederacy in Talons of Eagles (1995). In this fourth volume of Johnstone's Eagles series, Jamie, patriarch of the hugely prolific clan that runs Valley, Colo., acts as little more than a Dirty Harry in buckskins, as likely to slaughter historical fact as he is to off his fellow humans. After his beloved wife is murdered by the Miles Nelson gang of cutthroats and robbers, Jamie vows to track down and kill every one of the cowardly outlaws. At 62, the frontiersman is as tough as a boiled owl, spry and still handy with his pistols, rifle and shotgun.Wasting no time, he wipes out the gang and, through a maze of poorly defined subplots, also pumps lead into bounty hunters, feuding families, crooked lawmen, hired assassins and several hapless smart alecks. Jamie even finds time to fight the Sioux with General Custer, miraculously surviving the Last Stand. This is a preposterous story, with little historical accuracy or value, featuring a shallow caricature of a western hero. Readers may note that Jamie never confronts Miles Nelson himself, no doubt saving the outlaw for a further bloodbath?though one wonders if it could possibly be as mindless as this.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Pinnacle Books
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0786004479
• ISBN 13: 9780786004478
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320