Kid Rodelo

Name: Kid Rodelo
Brand: Penguin Random House
Availability: InStock
Author: Louis L'Amour
ISBN: 9780804192422

Author: Louis L'Amour

Narrator: Edoardo Ballerini

Unabridged: 4 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Random House Audio

Published: 03/04/2014

Categories: Fiction, Action & Adventure, Historical Fiction, Western

Synopsis

Joe Harbin hadn't killed a man for a fortune in gold just to sit in prison and let Rodelo collect it. But when he and his men break out and head for the stash, they end up with a pair of unwelcome partners: Rodelo and a beautiful woman with a hidden past. To get fifty thousand dollars in gold across fifty miles of desert, the desperate band quickly learns how much they need each other-—and how deep their greed and suspicion can run. At the end of the journey lie the waters of Baja and a new life in Mexico, but first they have to survive the savage heat, bounty-hunting Yaqui Indians, and the shifting, treacherous nature of both the desert sands and their own conflicting loyalties.

About The Author

Louis L'Amour is the only American-born novelist in history to receive both the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal. He published ninety novels, thirty short-story collections, two works of nonfiction, a memoir, Education of a Wandering Man, and a volume of poetry, Smoke from This Altar. There are more than 300 million copies of his books in print.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Laur on September 09, 2021

Classic L’Amour. There's too many reviews and ratings to add my own 2 cents worth here - I think it boils down to just personal preference and the memories or feelings (in some cases) invoked by others, i.e. family, friends, teachers, etc. It's a personal thing about this story that makes me give it......more

Goodreads review by Joyce on April 20, 2014

Edoardo Ballerini is a great narrator for this classic L'Amour western. He gets the voice right for the character--more likely to use his brains than his fists, soft-spoken, laconic, honorable. After he's released from jail, having served a year for a crime he didn't commit, he picks up the gold and......more

Goodreads review by Schmacko on April 14, 2012

I read this, because my dad used to love Louis L’Amour westerns. I never got to know my Dad well (nor he I for that matter). Well, in reading some of his favorites, I’ve come to realize my dad was geeky, with a taste for pulp. He also loved Raymond Chandler. So, I get it now; Dad had a bent for chew......more

Goodreads review by Liam on April 29, 2023

I think 'meh!' sounds about right. I couldn't care less for the characters. The story could have been done without the forced love story. 2/5......more

Goodreads review by Jayaprakash on July 28, 2012

Louis L'Amour is one of my father's favourites, and there were a lot of his novels around the house when I was growing up. I read a couple of them as a boy; they were fun but didn't make as much of an impact on me as other authors I discovered in my parents' collection: Tolkien, Asimov, Lovecraft, W......more