

Easy Pickings
Author: Richard S. Wheeler
Narrator: Andrea Gallo
Unabridged: 8 hr 15 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 05/10/2016
Categories: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Western
Author: Richard S. Wheeler
Narrator: Andrea Gallo
Unabridged: 8 hr 15 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 05/10/2016
Categories: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Western
Richard S. Wheeler is the award-winning author of historical novels, biographical novels, and Westerns. He began his writing career at age fifty, and by seventy-five he had written more than sixty novels. He began life as a newsman and later became a book editor, but he turned to fiction full time in 1987. Wheeler started by writing traditional Westerns but soon was writing large-scale historical novels and then biographical novels. In recent years he has been writing mysteries as well, some under the pseudonym Axel Brand. He has won six Spur Awards from the Western Writers of America and the Owen Wister Award for lifetime achievement in the literature of the American West.
Well written and interesting book with Wheeler once again creating believable and sympathetic characters. And his bad guys in this one are bad in such a matter of fact way. Really disturbing and effective. And then the ending. Perhaps the worst I’ve ever read. As I advanced to the final couple of pa......more
Quick read, after a 699 page fiction. Gold, causes a Montana miner to die in his mine and all the baddies in town try to take the mine from the widow, starting with arson and murder of the miner's child. Ends when some Irish miners defend the Scottish widow........more