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Wheeler is a master of characterization and paints a realistic picture of frontier life. - Booklist By 1877, frontier towns had sprung up all over the West. The young community of Payday is a paradise of rolling meadows and balmy skies with a quiet population of ranchers and merchants. Sam Flint, editor of The Payday Pioneer trumpets Payday's glories throughout the West, luring new settlers to town. Now Flint finds himself in the middle of an all-out war between the original settlers and the newcomers for control of Payday...
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出版社周刊评论
Intended as the first book in a trilogy about frontier newspaperman Sam Flint, this uneven novel rewrites the classic western film High Noon for a hero who slings words instead of six-shooters. Sam is a one-man newspaper operation, wandering the Southwest looking for the right town in which to set up his press. Lured to Payday, Ariz., in 1877, he finds an isolated little community hungry to attract new settlers and merchants. His newspaper, the Payday Pioneer, helps bring folks to town, but not without growing pains. Before the decent townspeople know it, a crowd of drifters, tinhorns, gamblers, whores and pistoleros set up shop, led by a blackheart named Odie Racine. The only man willing to stand against Racine's threats is Sam Flint, but his candid reporting makes him a lone, vulnerable target. On the other hand, the only man powerful enough to help save the town is Flint's bitter rival for the hand of beautiful Merry-Grace Rakoczy. In the final showdown, two unlikely allies step beside Sam to face down Racine's gunsels and back-shooters: once the gunsmoke clears, the satisfyingly high body count attests to Wheeler's strong recovery from an occasionally plodding story line. Still, the prolific novelist's third novel this year never lives up to the promise of his terrific Second Lives. (Sept.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Kirkus评论
The first volume of an emerging trilogy tracing the adventures of Sam Flint, intrepid frontier newspaperman. Lured by a civic committee headed by the city's chief entrepreneur, Judge Cutlip, to the frontier hamlet of Payday, Arizona, Flint is enticed to stay on by what is described throughout as an Edenic setting--a place offering perfect climate, good land, and honest people. The townsfolk hope Flint's newspaper, The Payday Pioneer, will entice more settlers to come, ensuring a prosperous future. Though doubtful, the young editor sets to work and succeeds beyond anyone's expectations. But complications soon arise as established cattlemen resist the encroachment of sheepmen and farmers on the previously open range. Things get even more complex when the attractive young wife of a missing rancher captures Flint's heart. Moreover, his dedication to editorial integrity soon gains him the ire not only of the profit-minded merchants but also of the county's most powerful rancher. All conflicts are set aside, however, when Flint's efforts begin to attract a nefarious element and the town fills with thugs, hired gunmen, and even an evil madam, Odie Racine, who's bent on extortion. Racine's malevolence forces Payday's citizens to join forces with the crusading editor, putting aside personal concerns as they fight to save their town. Though his characters never rise off the page, and the action is somewhere on a par with 1950s TV horse operas, Wheeler (Sierra, 1996, etc.) uses rather than merely displays his knowledge of the period, its details, and its attitudes. The Flint series will be a welcome addition to the reading lists of younger western fans, and a happy find for all those who prefer more traditional forms of the genre.
《书目》(Booklist)书评
Newspaper editor Sam Flint thought he'd found paradise in the post^-Civil War southwest town of Payday. Then rancher and ex-Confederate officer Clayton Buell runs off the good farm folk whom Flint's editorials brought to the town in search of clean air and black earth. As Paradise runs amok with madams, hookers, roustabouts, and drunks, Sam's crusading journalist instincts take over, leading quickly to conflict. Meanwhile, he falls in love with a young woman who is determined to honor her missing husband and who is also being courted by the inscrutable Buell. Veteran genre author Wheeler is a master of characterization and paints a realistic picture of frontier life in which ordinary folks exhibit courage, determination, and vision. This is the initial entry in a promising new series. Western fans will do well to make Sam Flint's acquaintance early. --Wes Lukowsky
《图书馆杂志》(Library Journal )书评
The fledgling frontier town of Payday nestles at the foot of the Mogollon Rim in Arizona. The air is fresh, the grass and water are plentiful, and Sam Flint is starting his newspaper, The Payday Pioneer, at the behest of the local merchants. Flint will lure settlers to the new town by advertising it as a veritable Garden of Eden, but he will not compromise his editorial standards and become a pawn. Payday is comprised primarily of men who fought in the Civil War, and the division still stands, with saloons on the north and the south sides of the street. The merchants hope to attract families to homestead in the area, but the first settlers are met with resistance from rancher Col. Clayton Buell. Patrick Cullen reads with a clear, steady voice, providing more vocal distinctions among the characters as the book progresses. However, the packaging leaves much to be desired in a circulating tape. Recommended for Cullen's reading expertise only.Melanie C. Duncan, Washington Memorial Lib., Macon, GA (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.