Donovan

By: Elmer Kelton

Narrated by: Kevin Orton

Donovan was supposed to be dead. The town of Dry Fork, southern Texas, had buried him years before when Uncle Joe Vickers had fired off both barrels of a shotgun into the vicious outlaw's face as he was escaping from jail. Now Uncle Joe has been shot - in just the same way. And Judge Upshaw had found a noose hanging on his door.

It looked as though Donovan was back-gunning for the people who had tracked him down and tried him. Sheriff Webb Matlock, a stern, quiet man, had more than one reason to find Donovan; Matlock was in love with the woman he had believed to be Donovan's widow; moreover, there were rumors that his hotheaded younger brother, Sandy, might have joined up with Donovan's gang. For his own peace of mind, and to protect the townspeople who had been threatened, Matlock decided to slip across the border, find Donovan in his Mexican hideout, and bring him back - or kill him.

©1961, 1986 Elmer Kelton (P)2015 Recorded Books

Good story

Great characters with good believable story. Author kept the language clean. Interesting all the way with good ending

Predictable, trope laden Western.

Disappointed that the author employed the dumbest tropes in fiction concerning the proper care of weapons handling.