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In this third book in the series, Sam Flint, a dedicated frontier journalist, tries to launch his own newspaper in Silver City, Colorado, to counter the lies of a rival newspaper run by a corrupt and manipulative editor.
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出版社周刊评论
After the first two insipid volumes in the Sam Flint western trilogy (Flint's Gift and Flint's Truth), Spur Award-winning Wheeler finally strikes the right balance of suspense, humor, drama and credibility in this final installment. Flint is an itinerant newspaperman, an idealist who bums around the rough mining towns of the Old West setting up crusading weekly newspapers until he gets run out of town, which happens with clockwork regularity. In 1878 he shows up in Silver City, Colo., with his printing press, some paper and ink, and a nave plan to oppose the established and corrupt newspaper of Digby Westminster, a ruthless and greedy editor who preys on the poor and helpless. Silver City is a boomtown, however, and the only rental space available to Flint is in the unsavory back room of a bordello; his landlady is a predictably voluptuous and kindhearted trollop inappositely named Chastity. From the doxies and tinhorns, Flint quickly learns how Westminster runs a powerful triangle to control the town. In his journalistic efforts to combat this corruption, Flint's new paper, the Silver City Sentinel, earns few friends, no money and plenty of rough handling by Westminster's scathing editorials and his street thugs. Flint's enemies are not limited to the newspaper war. Rich and arrogant mine tycoon Achilles Balthazar, his penny-pinching wife, Consuela, and brutal son, Hamlin, also conspire to be rid of Flint and his bothersome publication. Aided by Chastity and a wacky and brilliant typesetter named Napoleon, Flint fights back with some nifty journalistic tactics that turn the town upside-down and drive his enemies crazy. This conclusion to the trilogy has pizzazz. Shrewdly plotted and refreshingly entertaining, it is by far the best of the three. (July) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Kirkus评论
The dizzyingly prolific Wheeler's thirtysomethingth novel, windup to the trilogy begun with Flint's Gift (1997) and Flint's Truth (1998), which is at heart a saga about western journalism in the 19th century. Big, lean Sam Flint is a peripatetic publisher who, over the course of the past 12 years, has started up about eight weeklies among the boomtown years. Now, he's moved to Silver City, in the newly christened state of Colorado, to foment a rivalry with the established but coarsely vulgar Silver City Democrat, the kind of paper that lets loose editorial guffaws about a local woman's tragic suicide. Flint faces not only hydra-headed editor Digby Westminster, but also big, bald, frost-laden silver king Achilles Balthazar, head of the Mining Association, who buys up mines, has little regard for the lives of his workers, and looks like an eerily unblinking, monocled undertaker. Everyone warns Flint about starting up the Silver City Sentinel, dubbed by Westminster The Bawdyhouse Bugle because Flint has to set up shop in a building owned by whorehouse madame Chastity Ford. All told, a duel of honor arises between the two papers until the Sentinel's printing plant is seized and physically moved by Balthazar. To be set beside Wheeler's well-researched novel/memoir Sun Mountain (p. 487), which tells of the life of western newsman/editor Henry Jackson Stoddard and includes Stoddard's ties to Sam Clemens, a fellow Gold Rush reporter who went on to greater things.
《书目》(Booklist)书评
This is the third novel in this veteran scribe's series featuring frontier journalist Sam Flint. It's also the best. The crusading editor moves to Silver City to compete with the established Democrat and its corrupt editor-publisher, Digby Westminster. Flint also takes on the self-satisfied local authorities, the equally contented merchants, and evil mine-owner Achilles Balthazar and his villainous son. Unable to rent space anywhere in the overcrowded town, Flint finally moves himself and his printing press into vacant space in the house of Chastity Ford, a pretty lady who personally rents by the hour. Although Westminster suggests Flint call his paper the Bandy House Bugle, he opts instead for Silver City Sentinel. Needless to say, our man Flint and justice eventually triumph--with help and support from Chastity, tradesman Marcus Bridge, and printer Jude Napoleon. To round out a good tale well told, Flint even finds romance with a lovely lass named Livia. --Budd Arthur