Kilrone

by Louis L'Amour

Book Overview

When Major Frank Paddock and Barnes Kilrone were dashing young officers in Paris, they both fell in love with the same woman. But now they are men in exile in one of the harshest territories of the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0553107992
• ISBN13: 9780553107999
• Release Date: January 1977
• Publisher: Bantam
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Powerful pulp Western

Kilrone is an ex Army man who gave up a promising military career after a confrontation with an exploitative Indian agent and has spent his post military career as a drifter.He rides into an Army outpost to alert the commander to an Indian raid that has wiped out a cavalry patrol.The post commander is Paddock ,a once high flier whose career has been blighted by scandal and an old acquaintance of Kilrone whom he suspects to be in love with his wife.Against the advice of Kilrone the commander sets out to warn the other patrol in Indian territory of possible attack Kilrone rightly feeling the attack was a ruse to get him to weaken the post defences so the tribes can take over the fort.He stays behind to organise the defence of the post while Paddock takes the field to warn the other patrol.That is not all however for Kilrone's foprmer nemesis Iron Dave Sproul is a key man in the fort and has been selling guns to the Indians L'amour cuts briskly between the siege and the troops in the field and action is vividly described and plentiful with something of the more explicit violence that emerged in the genre -celluloid and paper-during the mid sixties.The climactic fist fight is especially powerful and the seeker after action will not put down the book feeling short changed.The climax fells rushed and the conflict between Kilrone and Paddock is not fleshed out enough ,while the women remain cyphers.This is all a little carping however and overall the book is a satisfying read for lovers of the genre.

Great realistic story

Kilrone is a great western about a man with many enemies who ends up being embraced by a town he passes through. Lamour's stories are realistic, as he has a thorough knowledge of the terrain and the history of the old west.

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One of the best I've read in a while.

A good book. Very easy to read, but full of real meat. You can put it down and come back to it later and get right back into it. I found myself taking notes to refer to later. Really terrific.

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