Title: The Lonely Men
Series: The Sacketts, book 10
Author: Louis L’Amour
Publisher: Random House Audio
Narrator: David Strathairn
Duration: 5 hours 20 minutes
Copyright: 2002
Genres: western
Filed in: Audiobook reviews
Review copy provided by Kearney Public Library.
THE GIST: Does William Tell Sackett have the guts to get on a horse and ride straight into Apache Indian territory? You bet he does! When the wife of Tell’s brother, Oren, approaches Tell with the news that her son has been kidnapped by the Apache’s, he doesn’t even have to think twice.
What poor, old, trusting Tell doesn’t know, is that Laura and Oren are not even married anymore, and furthermore they never had a child together. It seems that Oren and Tyrell Sackett played a major role in busting up Laura’s father’s crooked operations a while back, and ran him right out of the country. Still nursing a grudge against the whole Sackett clan, Laura has finally cooked up a scheme to get revenge. Tell knows none of this, however, so he and three of his trusted companions go riding off, deep into Apache territory.
The four courageous men manage to find the Indian camp where several white children are being held. Tell’s nephew is not one of them, however, and the rescuers begin to suspect Laura. There’s no time to worry about that now, though. Tell and his partners are spotted taking the children and it’s going to be an all-out race for the border.
Meanwhile, Laura is beginning to worry. She never imagined Tell would make it out alive, but what if he does? As a precaution, she hires an enemy of Tell’s to keep a look-out. If Tell and his group make it back alive, the hired killer will be laying for them.
MY THOUGHTS: Of all the Sackett’s, Tell is my favorite, and “The Lonely Men” is a good example of why. Tell knew he was probably on a suicide mission, but he did it anyway because his family is more important to him than his own life.
I really liked "The Lonely Men.” Many of the Sackett audio books tell about various Sacketts riding into a new town, butting heads with the local bullies, and running them out, but “the Lonely Men" was different. This time it was Tell against the Apache who are not really bad guys, but just trying to adapt. Tell will kill indians if he absolutely has to, but mostly he respects them as brave warriors.
NARRATOR: I can’t imagine anyone doing a better job reading Louis L’Amour’s audio books than David Strathairn. His no-nonsense style of narration matches L’Amour’s no-nonsense writing perfectly.
FINAL WORD: “The Lonely Men” is one of my favorite Sackett audio books so far. I came to Louis L’Amour’s books as a skeptic, not being a fan of westerns, but he has won me over. L’Amour really has a way with words, he gets his point across very succinctly without rambling on and on. “The Lonely Men” is highly recommended.
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