He carries an assassin’s nickname. But now this Pinkerton is the North’s last chance to keep its gold… Missouri, 1862. Rob “Longshot” Finn knows his grief won’t bring his wife back from the grave. Determined to put the tragedy behind him, he heads to St. Louis to set up a new Pinkerton operation. Under pressure to secure the Union’s vital war funding, Longshot travels the trail West with none … the trail West with none other than a young Buffalo Bill.
Battling unfamiliar terrain and savage predators, Longshot and his band discover the wild frontier doesn’t play by the rules. And with liars and spies working for both sides of the war, even Longshot’s unwavering belief in his government begins to falter…
Can he protect his principles, safeguard the gold, and keep his name off a fresh tombstone?
Longshot into the West is the second standalone book in the gritty Longshot historical Western series. If you like dusty settings, intriguing plot twists, and characters pulled from history, then you’ll love Keith R. Baker’s homage to the Civil War-era West.
Buy Longshot Into The West to ride the golden trail today!
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This is a pretty traditional Western, a clash of good guys and bad guys. Not much grey area. But it’s fun to see the good guys win (again).
The gold rush, Indians, Chicago, St. Loius, Denver, slavery, family issues…This book has it all. The bond between Rob and Lonnie was priceless. Enjoyed the healing of the medicine man. This is a great look at this time period from a western perspective. Loved it!
If you like westerns you will like this. I like a variety of different kinds of reading … inherited if from my dad!!!
Great read
Interesting and informative. Good story.
I enjoyed reading this book and look forward to more. I could feel myself being drawn into the story and stayed up to finish this book .
Good western, gritty, easy to read
The written word in this book felt very real for the time period, I could almost hear the cadence of the words and phrases and the conversations. The action stories were good, but the description of the land and trails made me feel like I was right there in the saddle riding along with the characters. The story was great, a little sad at the end but still overall heartwarming. Just don’t get on the wrong side of the.main character, Rob Finn. Loved this story!!
Really enjoyed this article book.
Good storyline keeps you interested and wanting more.
Great book, hard to put down once you start reading.
A great read. I would recommend that readers read the first book in the series, Longshot in Missouri, first. There are things that happened in the first book that will be more clear if they are read in order. Both are great reads.
Longshot into the West was a quick narration about Pinkerton detectives assisting the Union during the Civil War. From there the story sometimes rambled. The last part of the book was a much more succinct and enjoyable story. The performance, especially the Irish-American brogue was good.
An excellent stand alone individual or part of a series.
Characters are well established and in line with the previous stories. I liked the series, but the ending of this one left some unanswered questions. Will there be another? Some things are not finished.
Short sentences, limited vocabulary, poor character development, and minimal plot development made this book seem like reading the script for a 1950’s western. Definitely won’t read any more of this series.
Boring
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Action takes a later stage than explication in this novel about the Old West. What with explaining who begat whom, and how they felt from time to time, and how the Pinkertons operated, we don’t read much about how Longshot gets the Confederate gold. Those who have enjoyed other books in this series will find this a comfortable read.
The book was more of a summary of a story, than it was an actual story. It read like a series of notes that were supposed to be expanded into a story: an outline.
There were good characters, but most of them were either not developed, or developed at a weird point. Much of the character development read like notes the author had made for himself, to explain the characters, that were accidentally put into the story.
The writing itself was like a bad police report, and I’ve read far too many of those: it was choppy/staccato and did not stay on topic for long. The writing style was reminiscent of a journal, but the author’s perspective changed, which made the journaling strange.