The Brothers Of Junior Doyle

By E.K. Recknor

After his father is gunned down, Paddy Doyle, Jr.'s first instinct is to hunt down those responsible. Lucky for Junior, he has a friend like Wyatt Earp to steer him away from this course of action. So instead, Junior looks into his father's past, hoping to learn something about his mother, who died when he was born. He's shocked to discover that his mother's alive, along with four brothers and a sister he never knew about. And his brothers are anything but the law-abiding kind. When he's brought into the "family business" despite his misgivings, Junior finds himself caught between the law and loyalty.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0451220161
• ISBN13: 9780451220165
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: Signet Book
• Length: 249 Pages
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 4.2" x 6.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 12 and higher

Customer Reviews

The Problems with Family Values

E. K. Recknor delivers another solid performance in patented style. Junior Doyle follows his father from one silver mine to another, finally arriving in Tombstone during its heyday. When his father is gunned down by an unknown assailant, the 16-year-old Junior is dissuaded from pursuing the killer for vengeance by the town Marshall (a fellow by the name of Earp). Instead Junior decides to return to the village where he was born, and from there to places his father had previously lived, to see what he can learn of his father. He soon discovers that his father's generosity with his affections had produced four brothers by as many mothers. As thegrowing clan travels together, Junior quickly discovers that each of his older brothers has his own well-developed felonious skill. Regrettably, the brothers all resemble their father, which produces great confusion among lawmen, and great peril to Junior. Meanwhile the journey of discovery leads them to clues about the early days of their father and the events that put a professional killer on his trail. Before long they pick up the killer's trail on the way to the final confrontation. Readers seeking a high intensity, blood-pounding, violent western must look elsewhere. What sets Reckon apart is grace and humor together with a unique version of the "coming of age" story as Junior must deal with the conflicts of kin and conscience. Any reader who enjoyed "The Legendary Kid Donovan" will find "The Brothers of Junior Doyle" worth his time.