The Big Showdown

Name: The Big Showdown
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Mickey Spillane
ISBN: 9781501940859

Author: Mickey Spillane, Max Allan Collins

Series: Caleb York Western #7

Narrator: Corey M. Snow

Unabridged: 5 hr 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 11/18/2016

Categories: Fiction, Western

Synopsis

They killed the new sheriff. Now they'll have to deal with Caleb York. Times are changing. Caleb York is saddling up to try his hand as a Pinkerton man out California way. But before he can leave Trinidad, New Mexico, a peaceful morning erupts in a barrage of gunfire. When the dust settles, Caleb has gunned down two bad men, with another just dodging a ticket to hell . . . but leaving one very good man lying dead in the street. Lightning quick, Caleb rides after the fleeing gunman, only to be swept up in an evil wind blowing back through the sleepy town, threatening its very existence. Caleb s only chance to restore justice is to load his guns, dig in his spurs, and take on a ruthless killer. In a town drowning in blood, riddled with bullets, and hoping for a hero, Caleb York is the right man at the right time ready to face the vengeful outlaws in a chilling, storm-swept showdown.

About Mickey Spillane

Mickey Spillane published his first novel, I, the Jury, in 1947. Since then his books have sold more than 140 million copies, and his private eye character Mike Hammer has become a household name. A Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America, Spillane lived, fished, and found that writing just kept coming back to find him in Murrells Inlet, South Carolina. Mickey Spillane died July 17, 2006.

Reviews

Goodreads review by D.B. on June 23, 2016

Boy meets girl. Girl is hooked. Boy has bigger plans. Unfortunately, the wrench thrown into those plans is painfully, almost laughably, predictable. Westerns, particularly ones taking place in the Wild West era, possess a distinguishable cadence—idyllic, mysterious, and nostalgic— when written prope......more

Goodreads review by Jim on August 24, 2017

This was fun. I've never read a western by Spillane & it read like a John Wayne movie script. Not surprising since he probably wrote it for the Duke, a friend according to Max Allen Collins who finished this from Spillane's notes after he died. This was so similar to the tone & characters of Rio Bra......more

Goodreads review by HornFan2 on March 09, 2019

'The Big Showdown', was a uncompleted movie manuscript started by Mickey Spillane that Max Allan Collins completed and would have made a great sequel Western starring John Wayne. Seldom do you read two books from the same genre, then have one of them make you put the other book down and when that ha......more

Goodreads review by Benjamin on December 11, 2021

Six months after the events of The Legend of Caleb York, Caleb is ready to leave the town of Trinidad and head off to San Diego. He’s been acting sheriff all that time but has now hand-picked his replacement. Unfortunately, that man is gunned down during a bank robbery and so Caleb decides to stick......more

Goodreads review by Glen on May 13, 2016

The author of this book sent me a copy in exchange for a review. Caleb York is leaving town, now that the trouble is over. A new sheriff is taking his place. Then some men rob the bank. They kill the new sheriff, and clean the bank out. Five brothers are coming to shoot York, and the cousin of the he......more