A Threat to Justice, the second Old West novel from Chuck Norris and friends, finds Ezra Justice and his elite group of special operation soldiers having gone their separate ways just after the Civil War. But not for long. When General Sherman needs men to combat armed resistances against President Grant and his efforts to reconstruct America, Justice rides again. This heroic action tale of good versus evil, with elements of faith and romance, takes the Justice Riders everywhere from the Ku Klux Klan-ridden deep South to the adventure-filled goldmines of California.
This book is leaps and bounds ahead of the first book in the series. The writing is clear and the christian message isn't delivered with a hammer this time.
This book starts where the previous book leaves off. Our heroes have just finished their missions for General Sherman and have delivered their friend's body to his wife for a proper burial.
Just as they're about to spread to the winds to pick up their lives, they are summoned back to Washington D.C. where, among other things, General Sherman tries to make them U.S. Marshalls. They decline and head their separate ways.
What each of Justice's men finds is racism. Each must deal with various forms as the separate to St. Louis, San Francisco, Princeton and Tennessee.
The fiercest rival happens to be the newly formed Ku Klux Klan who go head to head with Nate and Captain Justice.
iliked the book, BUT ... i did NOT like it as much as the first one. granted, i waited a long time from book #1 til this one. so, i guess it's possible that in my own mind, i hyped up my expectations of what this book was going to be/could be/should be, and that's why i was disappointed. i don't think so, tho, as so far, 2 of us in this household have read it, and both of us were disappointed. i think i would still read a book #3, if it came out, but ... i wouldn't be holding my breath til it got here like i kind of did w/ this one.
Captain Ezra Justice, Nathaniel York, Reginald Bonesteel, and the twins, Carlos and Roberto Hawkins, make up the Justice Riders. They helped clean up some lawlessness after the Civil War and now they are heading home. Ezra and Nate find their plantation there but in not good shape. After some hard work they end up having to call the Justice Riders together again to fight the KKK. Fast reader, maybe I should have read the first book in the series first.