HOT LEAD, COLD JUSTICE
A Caleb York Western
By Mickey Spillane & Max Allan Collins
Kensington Books
200 pgs.
Available 5/26/2020
With the fourth novel in this series, Max Allan Collins puts
his hero, gunslinger turned Sheriff, Caleb York, up against a vicious gang of
outlaws while at the same time dealing with the disastrous winter blizzard of
1887. The latter, a freakish storm that destroyed farms and livestock was later
labeled by historians as “The Great Die-Up,” so impactful was the event that it
forever altered the course of western ranching for decades to follow.
Against this brutal setting, Burn’Em Burnham, a former
member of Quantrill’s Raiders, arrives in Trinidad, New Mexico to finalize his
plan to rob a bank in nearby Los Vegas. Advantageous to the outlaw leader, one
of his former crew has reformed and is operating a saddle and leather goods
store in the fast growing little town. Burnham offers to cut the merchant in
for a share of the loot if he’ll allow Burnham and his three men to hideout in
his quarters above the shop. The former Confederate soldier’s strategy being
after the bank job, most of the local lawmen will assume the robbers would head
south to Mexico. None would ever imagine them going north to lay low in
Trinidad.
All of this seems carefully strategized until two unexpected
variables arise. The first is discovering that York is the sheriff of Trinidad.
It was York who’d sent him to prison ten years earlier. The second is the
unforeseen blizzard. Both ultimately affect the gang’s fate and those of many innocent
people caught in their path.
As always, Collins weaves a masterful tale filled with
action, suspense and tragedy. Though is west is anchored in the memories of
many classic Hollywood horse-operas, it also makes use of the unvarnished
historical facts thus combining the two to create a unique and memorable story.
Honestly, his vivid description of the white snowy hell that descended upon the
plains had this reviewer blowing on his fingers as he turned the pages. Collins
remains a master yarn-spinner and this book proves it.
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