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Reviewed by Gaius Konstantine for Readers' Favorite
The Honor Trail: Book 2 The Storm Riders Series by Patrick E. Craig and Murray Pura is a Western-style adventure novel that takes place shortly after the conclusion of the American Civil War. Garret Roads, a former Confederate colonel, is now a rancher heading home after a successful cattle drive. He arrives at his ranch only to find his house burnt down and his brother-in-law and nephew dead at the hands of outlaws. That is the easy part. When Garret discovers that the leader of the outlaws is none other than his sister Alice, he sets off on a quest to confront his sister and restore what he considers to be family honor. Aided by his friend Carson Budrow, an ex-Yankee captain, and three dangerous women with hidden agendas, Colonel Roads is about to fight a different kind of war against an enemy he never expected to face.
“Many things need not have been at all,” but sometimes they are, and life does not care if they are fair or not. The Honor Trail by Patrick E. Craig and Murray Pura is a streamlined, no-frills Wild West bloodbath full of action, adventure, and betrayal. The plot is straightforward, and what you see is what you get; namely a man-hunt where the hunter becomes the hunted, only for the roles to reverse some more. The pace and tension are superb. Bandits, marauding Indians, cowboys, and angry women populate the novel, and there are few characters, if any, that I wanted to see alive by the time the story finished. The quick and urgent pace combined with the sleazy characters and setting makes The Honor Trail an ideal candidate for a gritty story set in a partially re-imagined West.
