Lone Calder Star - Hardcover

Dailey, Janet

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0758204418 ISBN 13: 9780758204417

Publisher: Kensington Pub Corp, 2005

Synopsis

With rumors of trouble on the Calders' Cee Bar Ranch in northern Texas, Quint Echohawk, a lawman and Calder family member, heads for Texas to investigate and, disguised as a cowboy looking for work, discovers that Max Rutledge, the ruthless owner of a competing ranch, will do anything to get his hands on Calder land. 100,000 first printing.

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Debuting in 1981, the eight western romances chronicling the saga of Montana's Calder family are the superstars among Dailey's more than 100 books. This ninth novel follows young ex-lawman Quint Echohawk (a grandson of the series' original protagonist, Chase Calder) on an undercover mission from the family's Montana homeground to Texas, where the rival Rutledge millionaire clan is attempting a hostile takeover of neighboring ranches, including the Calders' sole Lone Star state ranch, the Cee Bar. With virtually the entire town intimidated or bribed into conspiring in the Rutledges' ruthless dealings, loner Quint faces perils ranging from fire to starvation to anthrax, with no allies save two small, out-of-business ranchers: crusty old-timer "Empty" Gardner and his grandaughter, Dallas. Characterizations are somewhat less complex than in early Calder novels. They're also less consistent. A plot twist in which the supposedly whip-smart, principled and gutsy Dallas is motivated by fear to spy on Quint for Rutledge's almost stereotypically slimy son, for instance, is not entirely convincing. (Or appealing; the charm of all Dailey's Calder women lies in their clear-headed grit.) Still, the passion, spirit and strength readers expect from a Calder story-and a Calder hero-shine through, as does the author's gift for vividly bringing the western landscape to life.
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When the manager of the Cee Bar Ranch southwest of Fort Wort disappears, former Treasury Department ATF agent, Quint Echohawk, the grandson of Chase Benteen Calder, is sent to Texas to discover why. Neighboring rancher and billionaire Max Rutledge is out to acquire every ranch in the area, and his incompetent son is willing to go to any lengths to help him. Red-haired college-student Dallas Garner, working two jobs to support her grandfather, Easy, who lost his ranch to Rutledge, provides a love interest, while Easy hires on to help Quint. Rutledge had no idea of who he would be dealing with when he decided to take over the Cee Bar and finds that being up against a willful Calder is no trifling matter. Dailey's characters are archetypes, and the story has been told many times before, yet as she continues the long-running, best-selling Calder saga, she does create a kind of magic that makes her latest enjoyable tale a great choice for the airplane or beach. Diana Tixier Herald
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Edition details

• Publisher: Kensington Pub Corp
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0758204418
• ISBN 13: 9780758204417
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 281