Eagles # 4 - Scream of Eagles by William W. Johnstone

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Eagles # 4 - Scream of Eagles
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Updated on 6-30-2008.

Features

Audio CD: 360 pages

Publisher: Graphic Audio; Unabridged edition (January 1, 2007)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1599502046

ISBN-13: 978-1599502045

Product Dimensions: 6.3 x 5.4 x 0.7 inches

Shipping Weight: 4 ounces ()

From Publishers Weekly
Twelve years?and any sense of realism?have gone up in smoke since Jamie MacCallister fought for the Confederacy in Talons of Eagles (1995). In this fourth volume of Johnstone's Eagles series, Jamie, patriarch of the hugely prolific clan that runs Valley, Colo., acts as little more than a Dirty Harry in buckskins, as likely to slaughter historical fact as he is to off his fellow humans. After his beloved wife is murdered by the Miles Nelson gang of cutthroats and robbers, Jamie vows to track down and kill every one of the cowardly outlaws. At 62, the frontiersman is as tough as a boiled owl, spry and still handy with his pistols, rifle and shotgun.Wasting no time, he wipes out the gang and, through a maze of poorly defined subplots, also pumps lead into bounty hunters, feuding families, crooked lawmen, hired assassins and several hapless smart alecks. Jamie even finds time to fight the Sioux with General Custer, miraculously surviving the Last Stand. This is a preposterous story, with little historical accuracy or value, featuring a shallow caricature of a western hero. Readers may note that Jamie never confronts Miles Nelson himself, no doubt saving the outlaw for a further bloodbath?though one wonders if it could possibly be as mindless as this.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From Booklist
The fourth novel in the Jamie MacCallister saga finds the Civil War veteran and hero of the Alamo searching for the killers of Kate, his wife of 45 years. He's tracking the Nelson gang, 55 strong, and the trail will take him from one edge of the country to the other. MacCallister is consumed by revenge and made fearless by the concept that his death will just hasten his reunion with Kate. Though MacCallister has been an intriguing and violent protagonist in the first three novels in the series, this time he is bereft of the humor and humanity that made him interesting. Here he's a gray-haired killing machine. Period. The action scenes are well written--as always--and there are actual historical figures scattered about, but ultimately this is the literary western equivalent of the Die Hard films. Still, the series has an established audience, ensuring that it will be requested by western readers in most public libraries. Wes Lukowsky --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Reader Reviews
This review is from: Scream Of Eagles (The Eagles Series) (Paperback) We have travelled a long way with Jamie Ian ever since he was kidnapped by the Shawnee people of the Ohio territory as a young boy, and he met the young and beautiful white girl, Kate Olmstead, and then in other books he went into the Mexican War of 1848, and then in the Civil War his sons fought on opposite sides. But now, in SCREAM OF EAGLES, I find that author Johnstone has brought old man McAllister a bridge too far; he is so old that I'm surprised he can still move a muscle, much less act like the mountain man he used to be. However with the death of Kate at the hands of a ruthless cut-throat, the old man is forced to make some more trouble for the bad guys. If you ever get confused about which book is which in William Johnstone's EAGLES series, you'll always remember SCREAM as the one that should have been set in a retirement home! Other than that, his standard excellent Western fare. The new DESTINY OF EAGLES is much better! Comment | Permalink | (Report this)

Eagles # 4 - Scream of Eagles
Available from Amazon
Price: $10.99
Updated on 6-30-2008.