SCAVENGERS A Porter Rockwell Adventure Dark Trails Saga Book 1 eBook David J West
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An untouchable gunslinger. A lost hoard of gold. A host of brutal adversaries. What could possibly go wrong?
Deputy Marshal Porter Rockwell can't be harmed by a bullet or a blade. As long as he never cuts his hair, Rockwell is free to right wrongs and chase criminals without worrying about the consequences. But when he learns about a map to a mysterious cache of gold, he's embroiled in a battle for the treasure with enemies lining up on every side.
As outlaws, villains, and a surprisingly formidable Ute chieftain stand between the Deputy Marshall and the gold, bullet and blade might not be what finally take Rockwell down. It could be plain old bad luck...
Scavengers is a Western with colorful characters and wit straight out of a Tarantino flick. If you like mixing horror with your pulp, strong and admirable heroes, and weird Westerns, then you'll love the first book in David J. West's Porter Rockwell series.
Buy Scavengers to join the hunt for gold today!
SCAVENGERS A Porter Rockwell Adventure Dark Trails Saga Book 1 eBook David J West
“It’s a hard thing to be a living legend. To be told by a prophet of God that if you never cut your hair no bullet nor blade can harm you. True enough, in some twenty-five since the night he had received that unusual blessing it had been absolutely correct. Blessed like Samson of old, Porter was promised incredible things and so far, they had proved one hundred percent correct. Porter bore no scars on his rangy body at all. And it wasn’t like he didn’t spend his life in the thick of things. He had been a scout, frontiersman, bodyguard and now lawman all without a single wound. But he still found himself ducking and dodging and fighting his way out of scraps. He didn’t stand around and let himself get hit, no sir. That’d be like tempting fate, and Porter wasn’t about to do that.”I didn’t realize that Porter Rockwell was a real historical personage until I opened up this book. He was, and he lived a fascinating life. He has to rank pretty high on a list of people criminally underappreciated by the Western genre (along with Bass Reeves).
West has Porter caught up in a hunt for buried treasure that may or may not be cursed.
West writes with a good voice for a Western. Muscular. Laconic. Understated.
“‘You’d be surprised,’ answered Porter, ‘at what a little blood loss can do to a monster.’”
Porter Rockwell is an outlaw turned lawman. Running a fugitive down gets Porter caught up in the aforementioned hunt for buried treasure. A treasure that everyone from outlaws to bandits to cavalrymen to Utes are chasing. Porter falls in mainly with a black cavalryman named Quincy, and Roxy, a runaway with a magic faro table.
There weren’t as many SF aspects as I expected or hoped for. There is a buried treasure that may or may not be cursed, that is protected in any event by some Indiana Jones-style traps. There is a magic faro table and Porter may or may not be protected by God. Not that I don’t like stories that play around at the speculative edges, but I was a little thrown off just because it wasn’t quite what I expected.
But that is criticizing a story for what it isn’t rather than what it is. What it is is a fun weird western yarn that Robert E. Howard would have been proud of—or at least been happy to sell.
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SCAVENGERS A Porter Rockwell Adventure Dark Trails Saga Book 1 eBook David J West Reviews
A western novel that is a little hard to believe. The main character defined death in impossible fashions at least twenty times. I personally would not be interesting in reading additional books by the author. Credit to the author, the story line was good but I felt lost its positive potential to the overly using the superman, death refining characters.Yurt in ok
Wild and crazy story, but I loved it! Humor in serious situations is always needed! Great collection of characters with only one thing on their minds! Gold or survival!!!
This is pretty solid work. The characters need more speech pattern differences, though. It's also more a straight Western than I was expecting, though I'm told it will get weirder as the story continues.
This is an excellent western adventure. All the action and adventure you . could ask for and more. Just about everything that could be put in writing, and done well.
Lots of cowboy action, lots of shooting, lots of the good old west. Very cinematic and I can see this easily becoming a movie. At times the hero was almost too lucky and far too smart to get captured/trapped like he did...felt almost like the author needed a convenient way for Porter to get captured...but in the end the story came to gain a nice fashion.
This book is the best western I’ve ever read. The characters are varied and easily distinguishable. Every setting pops out at you and feels recognizable as so very western. Action is overflowing and the tension is constant, not a boring part in the entire book. There is a natural flow to the whole piece that feels like an old spaghetti western movie, back when movies were fun to watch. It feels like you’re really there, walking with the characters. This author knows what he’s doing and he does it with exquisite talent.
One star is taken off because the book suffers from tremendous punctuation and editing problems. It got distracting, and I had to read passages multiple times to get the meaning. Imagine having a delicious meal at a gourmet restaurant, but the waitress interrupts you after every bite. It feels like reading a really fun rough draft of the novel that should have been released. The author has issued a statement that he’s planning to fix this and address it going forward with a new setup. If he fixes that, this book deserves 5 stars.
I love this author. He is fast becoming one of my top 3 authors for sheer fun and immersive storytelling. If he gets a stronger editing team, he’ll be a real contender for the top spot. I wish they’d turn his works into movies and tv shows, I’d watch them in a heartbeat.
David J. West continues to challenge his story writing abilities and we're all the better for it. After walking, running, and haranguing Porter Rockwell through various adventures of the Weird West, West now brings us a novel length work which - for the most part - is a straight-up Western featuring the stalwart hero.
Rockwell finds himself caught up in the hunt for lost treasure. He makes a few friends along the way but mostly he is beset by enemies - hostile Natives, criminal gangs, a bandito army, a U.S. cavalry unit lead by an unscrupulous officer, and a manic German reverend with brainwashed followers.
Rockwell needs his guns, wits, strength and fortitude to blaze his way through adventure, enemies and traps. There are some great mental images I had while reading. West provides terrain descriptions that come to life, too. Porter is often out of the frying pan and into the fire as the cliffhanger action keeps the story moving along at a brisk pace.
The only touch of 'weird' here is the Reverend's mushroom-tainted communion drink and lost Spanish treasure. The rest is a Western, with a healthy dose of spaghetti-Western, at that.
If you like action-driven Westerns, you should give SCAVENGERS a read!
“It’s a hard thing to be a living legend. To be told by a prophet of God that if you never cut your hair no bullet nor blade can harm you. True enough, in some twenty-five since the night he had received that unusual blessing it had been absolutely correct. Blessed like Samson of old, Porter was promised incredible things and so far, they had proved one hundred percent correct. Porter bore no scars on his rangy body at all. And it wasn’t like he didn’t spend his life in the thick of things. He had been a scout, frontiersman, bodyguard and now lawman all without a single wound. But he still found himself ducking and dodging and fighting his way out of scraps. He didn’t stand around and let himself get hit, no sir. That’d be like tempting fate, and Porter wasn’t about to do that.”
I didn’t realize that Porter Rockwell was a real historical personage until I opened up this book. He was, and he lived a fascinating life. He has to rank pretty high on a list of people criminally underappreciated by the Western genre (along with Bass Reeves).
West has Porter caught up in a hunt for buried treasure that may or may not be cursed.
West writes with a good voice for a Western. Muscular. Laconic. Understated.
“‘You’d be surprised,’ answered Porter, ‘at what a little blood loss can do to a monster.’”
Porter Rockwell is an outlaw turned lawman. Running a fugitive down gets Porter caught up in the aforementioned hunt for buried treasure. A treasure that everyone from outlaws to bandits to cavalrymen to Utes are chasing. Porter falls in mainly with a black cavalryman named Quincy, and Roxy, a runaway with a magic faro table.
There weren’t as many SF aspects as I expected or hoped for. There is a buried treasure that may or may not be cursed, that is protected in any event by some Indiana Jones-style traps. There is a magic faro table and Porter may or may not be protected by God. Not that I don’t like stories that play around at the speculative edges, but I was a little thrown off just because it wasn’t quite what I expected.
But that is criticizing a story for what it isn’t rather than what it is. What it is is a fun weird western yarn that Robert E. Howard would have been proud of—or at least been happy to sell.
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