'Spur' was a long-running adult western
series that ran for 40+ books. The main character is Spur McCoy, a
former Union Captain and now an early agent of the U.S. Secret
Service. He works out of the St. Louis office and accepts assignments
for any crimes west of the Mississippi River. The series can be read
in any order and author Dirk Fletcher was veteran writer Chet
Cunningham ('Canyon O'Grady', 'Avenger', 'Jim Steel'). Entry #28 is
“Kansas City Chorine”, published December, 1993.
The book finds a wrongdoer named Jack
T. Galde pulling bank jobs across the Kansas prarie. His methods are
fairly elementary – establishing an identity in the small town,
then robbing the bank before blowing it up. His destination is simply
the next town so he can pull the heist all over again. After Galde's five
robberies and a handful of murders, Spur is assigned the case.
The neanderthal porn is overwhelmingly
prevalent. The development of characters is about as deep as a
golfer's divot. The methodology used to find young women to seduce is simply “if there's hair I'm there”. Galde is suffering from
a mother figure syndrome, provoking him to rape and pillage anything
with breasts (including grinding on a horse's ass). Our hero isn't
much better, fondling a young woman on the trail that...just needs
fondling. These things never happen to me.
The narrative places Spur in the same
town as Galde's next heist. The lady of the night is the Kansas City
Chorine herself, Patrice, whom Spur beds in four explicit scenes.
Besides that action, Spur just sort of meanders around town long
enough to locate the hotel room Galde is residing in. Oddly, instead
of just arresting him there, he sleuths around town hoping to find
the man. He wastes too much time and finds that Galde, using a
preacher's identity, has robbed the bank, a widow and stolen Patrice.
The hunt is on as an incompetent Spur battles a tornado to find his woman.
I've read two Spur novels, this one and
“#15 Hang Spur McCoy!”. I might speculate that as the series
continued the quality diminished. This book was just lethargic and
lousy for all of the reasons I listed above. I might try another Spur
title later on but this one has put the series on the back burner of
my neighbor's stove. I'm done for now.
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