This review is part of Barrie Summy's Book Review Club.
Sudden
Oliver Strange
Historical data
published bY Corgi books
First published 1933
This edition published 1965
Cover price 3/6
James Green, otherwise known as Sudden, is wanted in Texas for crimes he didn't commit and when he is given the chance by Governor Bleke to work for the law he jumps at it with both guns b
lazing.Sudden is riding to the town of Windy when he comes across an ambush. He has to hide himself behind some rocks and when he comes out he find one man murdered while his killers have already fled. Sudden takes the dead man into town and find himself smack bang in the middle of a range war.
The Sudden series which were continued by Fred Nolan, friend of The Archive and Billy the Kid Expert, are all traditional westerns and this, the first in the series, was written when the genre was still young and the last dust clouds of the Old West had yet to drift onto the far horizon.
The plotting and pace has been copied a million times since this classic was first published and its difficult for the modern reader to appreciate how fresh and exciting the book must have been on original publication.
That said the Sudden series are well worth rooting around for if you like traditional westerns with a good no nonsense and likable hero.
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