The Big Showdown

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

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

'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

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

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