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An American Outlaw (The John Whicher Books) (English Edition) Formato Kindle

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One Law. Two men either side of it. The war's come home. The war's deadly. John Whicher is a US Marshal, a criminal investigator in today's American southwest.

'Fans of John Sandford will love this modern Western series that's as thoughtful as it is action-packed.' (Bookbub) BOOK #1 in the bestselling WHICHER SERIES ★★★★★ "Spellbinding..." forensicoutreach.com

Gilman James comes home from Iraq - the last of three childhood friends to return. His brothers-in-arms are mere shadows of their former selves - Gil, unmarked, determines to take care of them. But how far should a man go for the people he loves?
Stepping across the line between right and wrong, Gil finds himself stranded in the Texan desert--as a bank heist he's planned goes horribly wrong. Pursued into the badlands by US Marshal John Whicher, a moment of violent reckoning is set in train. What makes an outlaw? Marshal John Whicher thinks he knows. But can natural justice ever outrank the law?

'A classic series in the making...' Amazon Reviews ★★★★★

"As a retired LEO, 37 years on the job I can relate having worked with deputy Marshals during that time.' M. James Cullinan, Amazon Reviews ★★★★★

'Powerful, smart, action-packed...the book has one of the most gratifying endings I've encountered in fiction this year...' B. Case, Amazon TOP 500 REVIEWS ★★★★★

'This is a post-Iraq Butch & Sundance throw-down. Meditations on war and love and life. Can't wait to see the movie...' CiscoPike, Goodreads, Terlingua, TX ★★★★★

"A book of the year..." murdermayhem&more ★★★★★

'A fast-moving, tension-filled manhunt...hooks the reader...brilliantly rendered.' Raven Crime Reads ★★★★★

'I am a USMC Vietnam Vet. Thank you for bringing out some of the treatment of our young men that we trained to kill but did not retrain to rejoin a society they are no longer a part of. I would recommend this book to anyone, but especially vets. Will be looking for more books by this author.' Jarhead, Amazon Reviews ★★★★★

'A rip-roaring 21st century western...a relentless pursuit among the sun-scorched mountain trails of West Texas...' R. Hoseason, Amazon Top 50 'Hall of Fame' Reviews ★★★★★

'Having spent time as a USAF Air Policeman riding with Tom Green County Sheriff and the Texas Highway Patrol makes the book more real...' Stevie-Joe, Amazon Reviews ★★★★★

'As a veteran, who also spent years in rural Texas, I was able to relate and enjoy...' Rev. Stan Chapin, Amazon Reviews
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  1. Parte della serie
    The John Whicher Books
  2. Lunghezza stampa
    409 pagine
  3. Lingua
    Inglese
  4. Memo
    Su Kindle Scribe
  5. Data di pubblicazione
    10 gennaio 2014
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    982 KB
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    John Stonehouse
    4.0 su 5 stelle (4.673)
    Edizione Kindle
    4,99 €
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    John Stonehouse
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    John Stonehouse
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    John Stonehouse
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    John Stonehouse
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    John Stonehouse
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  7. Mountain Gods (The John Whicher Books) (English Edition)
    John Stonehouse
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00GSUABE6
  • Lingua ‏ : ‎ Inglese
  • Dimensioni file ‏ : ‎ 982 KB
  • Utilizzo simultaneo di dispositivi ‏ : ‎ illimitato
  • Da testo a voce ‏ : ‎ Abilitato
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  • Memo ‏ : ‎ Su Kindle Scribe
  • Lunghezza stampa ‏ : ‎ 409 pagine
  • Numeri di pagina fonte ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1497463688
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5,0 su 5 stelle An excellent thoughtful read
Recensito in Australia il 6 gennaio 2017
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The professional insight, relentless dedication and human compassion of the Marshall Whicher character are centred in a circumstance of understandable reality.

An excellent contemporary thinking person's read, spare in the nature of hard-boiled fiction, but with a lack of cynicism
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Marjie, Mother of 9
5,0 su 5 stelle Fast Paced and Well Written
Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 3 marzo 2014
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At the beginning of this book, Gilman James explains that you don't know him, but you probably have heard of his great-great grandfather. This sets the tone of this book, in which Gilman is our narrator, and begins to feel like a friend.

Gilman and his friends Michael and Steven have set out to rob a bank. Each is staying in a town about 100 miles from the intended target; Gilman is in a small town out in West Texas, awaiting the robbery later that day. However, power to the town went down, and there is no cell phone service. The agreement was that if they all didn't check in a couple of hours before the robbery, they would postpone it by one day. With no phone service, and no power, so Gilman can't gas up his truck, he spends the night in a tiny motel. The next morning, when the power returns, Gilman finds his face on the TV, wanted in connection with the robbery of a bank.

The story bounces back and forth between Gilman James and the US Marshall who's been sent to find him; it's a very well told, fast paced story. I wasn't entirely sure where it would end, and I didn't see the final outcome. Overall, an excellent book.
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4,0 su 5 stelle Very good
Recensito nel Regno Unito il 15 settembre 2014
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I picked this up having spoken to the author via Twitter. To be honest I was a little hesitant. I wasn't sure it was going to be my cup of tea at all. But in the end I was glad I did.

Basic storyline is ex-US marine and Iraq vet goes on a robbery spree to raise money for his team mates who came back traumatised and generally f***ed up by their wartime experiences. Throughout the book there's a recurring theme that society doesn't adequately look after it's veterans. This leads the reader to have a natural empathy with the protagonist. But the author also introduces us to a likeable antagonist, a US Marshall who's job it is to hunt this team of rogue US marines down. By the end I found myself kinda cheering for both of them, which gave the novel extra depth.

This could so easily have been a generic heist story, hence my hesitation. While the whole feel-sorry-for-the-vets thing could so easily have been laid on with a trowell. But the author's undoubted skill ensures that we avoid the world of cliché. The characters are well drawn and their motivations adequately explained. The tension is ramped up throughout the course of the narrative but it's not simply bang bang and lots of explosions.

On a technical level I noticed few spelling or grammatical mistakes, so rare in this age of ebooks where novels, particularly those self-published, are increasingly released without proper editing.

I have two minor quibbles which make this a four star review rather than a five star one. Firstly, one way the marines are tracked is via their use of their own service weapons. It's never adequately explained why they would use their own weapons, especially in the Southern states where guns are easy to come by. Why not just buy guns on the black market? Or use a false ID in a gun store? Secondly, the main protagonist is incredibly careful not to kill anyone. Despite being a combat veteran of the US marines, having fought through a bloody ambush in Iraq and come out traumatised, we're expected to believe that he would be unprepared to take life even when his back is to the wall? I understand why the author did this, he wanted us not to fall out of love with the character. But I felt it stretched credulity just a little far.

Having said that, all in all this was a very good book. The author is certainly someone to watch. I would definitely read more of his work.
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Mathieu Albanie
4,0 su 5 stelle A book to read, an author to follow.
Recensito in Francia il 30 giugno 2014
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Well, I am, probably, if not the first one, ones of the first french reader of An American Outlaw, which book I read in English, with, I must confess, the help of the of the integrated dictionary, and of the translation dictionary in my e-reader ; so, it was, somewhere, an interrupted reading from time to time, but, even like that, this book is definitely a page turner, in the whodunit's style, and more precisely in the sub-genre's pursuit style. Although a lot of words and expression come from the slang language, and therefore there is a large use of the elision, read this book was a pleasure. The pursuit is well drawn, the characters sound reals, complex, and weak enough to stick with them all along the story, some scenes of actions are totally absorbing, not because they are bloody, but because they are well written. This book is also contemporary, almost universal by many sides, in the sense where the characters represent by theirs existences and their actions many of the problems and of the injustices of the American society such as the war veterans, the immigrants, the foreclosures, the power of the banks upon the civil society and the morality, and in particular on the lower class, or ex-middle class, as you wish. The whodunits, or mysteries - or polars in French - are most of time the perfect way to testify of the convulsions of an epoch, and if you want to have an idea of how and why you could become an outlaw after you served your country abroad in a useless war, or how is it hard to be a lonely mother from Mexico in USA, or how the good and the bad are sometime, even for a cop, just a question of point of view, and or chance, you should read this book, urgetently. I saw some of Jim Thompson and a little bit of James Lee Burke in the prose of John Stonehouse, with a sauce made of Texas and Louisiana, which ingredients are good for any starters or main courses, spicy or not, and really, for a first book, it's a good food for the soul. I will await the second book by this author with impatience, and I hope to see him translate in French one day, to have the pleasure to reread again some chapters, just for the pleasure of the prose. Congratulations Mister Stonehouse.
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JOHN SR
4,0 su 5 stelle good yarn
Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 3 novembre 2023
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Interesting story that may set the scene for further adventures of Marshall Witcher. At times the story was fast moving, other times reflective to add perspective, still, I enjoyed the story, but undecided if I will read another in the series
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