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Slocum #215
Slocum at Dead Dog
Arriving in the town of Dead Dog to visit an old friend, Slocum finds himself in the middle of a range war when his friend is murdered, leaving behind a daughter who needs his help in defending her ranch from Kansas Totem and his gang. Original.
192 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published February 1, 1997
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Jake Logan
540 books8 followersJake Logan is a pen name of a number of authors of "Slocum Western" series.
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November 1, 2025
2.5 stars. This one's just missing a little oomph. Something seems off. Maybe it's that we're in the middle of the Pretty Boy Slocum era, but the cover depicts Slocum as pure Glenn Ford.
Slocum runs into a range war at the town of Dead Dog (they are running out of things to name these, aren't they?), hires on to take the side of an old friend, and ends up making an enemy of the other side's foreman, Jojo (no, really). His old friend, Starkey, also has a thing for the ruthless Ben Berry's daughter, Brandy, providing some non-Slocum sex scenes to keep up appearances (and, most likely, up the page count).
Yet another range war isn't the most robust of premises and whoever "Jake Logan" is this time at bat doesn't do much with the recipe. A lot of the word count is eaten up by repetitive scenes where the characters reiterate what's just happened or try to talk the corrupt Sheriff into resolving the situation. This being a Western, obviously that doesn't work.
By the end, you can feel the flopsweat of the writer trying to get this narrative to keep going all the way to the 190 page mark. The range war's off, but Brandy's kidnapped! Okay, they got her back, but the villain's henchmen are still on orders to scatter the herd! Okay, that's settled, but now we have to take that crooked Sheriff to jail! And so on and so forth.
You feel like this was originally supposed to end with a twenty page preview of another book to pad things out, then that fell through and some extra 'plot' had to be found in a hurry.
Slocum runs into a range war at the town of Dead Dog (they are running out of things to name these, aren't they?), hires on to take the side of an old friend, and ends up making an enemy of the other side's foreman, Jojo (no, really). His old friend, Starkey, also has a thing for the ruthless Ben Berry's daughter, Brandy, providing some non-Slocum sex scenes to keep up appearances (and, most likely, up the page count).
Yet another range war isn't the most robust of premises and whoever "Jake Logan" is this time at bat doesn't do much with the recipe. A lot of the word count is eaten up by repetitive scenes where the characters reiterate what's just happened or try to talk the corrupt Sheriff into resolving the situation. This being a Western, obviously that doesn't work.
By the end, you can feel the flopsweat of the writer trying to get this narrative to keep going all the way to the 190 page mark. The range war's off, but Brandy's kidnapped! Okay, they got her back, but the villain's henchmen are still on orders to scatter the herd! Okay, that's settled, but now we have to take that crooked Sheriff to jail! And so on and so forth.
You feel like this was originally supposed to end with a twenty page preview of another book to pad things out, then that fell through and some extra 'plot' had to be found in a hurry.
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