This is great guy reading: the Mexican desert, rugged individuals, horses, soldiers and mercenaries and ultra-violence. Olmstead's terse but romantic writing style sets a perfect tone for the story. His description of the desert heat was amazing. If I described them to you, the characters would sound like caricatures, but they feel rich and alive when you're reading the book. Excellent!

QOTD
"His was a dirty death, but in the end if was his own death and no one else's and it'd been waiting here for him all these years and now he'd walked into its chain and it'd taken him in it's embrace."
- Robert Olmstead, "Far Bright Star"