![]() ![]() ![]() Gus loves and loses, loves and loses, loves and loses. For all their skill as lawmen, on the home front, they’re a sorry lot. McCrae is back in fine form as the garrulous, whoring, hard-drinking, vexing counterpart to the taciturn, stoic Call - an odd couple of co-captains if ever there was one. It brings back another memorable Ranger from “Dove,” the rascal Jake Spoon. ![]() The story reacquaints readers with Pea Eye Parker, the fumbling but loyal young ranger, and Deets, the escaped slave and kindhearted cook. The novel moves through the mid-1800s and the years immediately after the Civil War as the rangers pursue bandits and Comanche holdouts, and as the last war chiefs either submit to the government’s terms for relocation or watch and fight fitfully as their numbers are depleted. Meanwhile, Comanche war chief Buffalo Hump makes one last great raid under the light of the harvest moon, or, as it’s called on the war trail, the “Comanche moon.” Scull travels to Mexico, and Call and McCrae assume command of the rangers, who before long are dispatched to find their heroic former boss. Scull impulsively leaves the rangers to press the chase on foot. Not only don’t they catch him, but Kicking Wolf steals Scull’s horse in a night raid. The rangers are pushing through the freezing sleet in pursuit of the notorious Comanche horse thief Kicking Wolf. Scull is leading the quest that launches the story. ![]()
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