Ride the Wild Plains

The Western Classic by the Spur Award Winning Writer

By: Nelson Nye

Narrated by: Jack de Golia

FRAMED as a horse thief, Maffitt went through hell to reach Mexico – Then found he'd ridden straight into hell!

Nelson Nye, the rancher writer, brings his Spur Award-winning gift for describing the Western landscape with accuracy few others ever achieved, creating fresh new plots, and engaging, identifiable characters, to this unforgettable novel of an innocent man forced to ride the wild plains for his life.

It wasn't a journey that anyone would make willingly. But Dale Maffitt had little choice. Wanted for hanging on a trumped-up charge of horse-stealing, trailed by a relentless posse, Maffitt's only hope lay in Mexico. To live, he must ride fast and hard over the scorching Texas plains and beat the posse to the border. Once across, he would be safe from arrest, and the posse would have to turn back. So Dale Maffitt begins a grueling race across one of most merciless, drought stricken patches of Hell in the USA - the Texas barrens - trying to stay one step ahead of the posse. Every mile of the way was a battle with pitiless heat, hunger, thirst, perilous storms, and often the posse itself. What he did not know was that if at last he made it to Mexico, it would only be to discover true Hell had always waited ahead of him - and not behind!

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A Basic Western Tale

If you like westerns, this was pretty standard fare with all the trimmings. Man on the run with a girl in tow is just askin' fur trouble ya? So when I say typical ... that basically means a simple frontier style boy meets girl story with very little nuance amongst all that drama ... and you could be forgiven if some of the color comes across with a little of the bias one might expect for the times. Performance is good with some room for improvement and the story itself was interesting for the most part, but very tropey and predictable; but given the genre, that is pretty much expected these days. Fortunately the folksy dialog/slang wasn't too strong (which seems to be all the rage these days for westerns), so I could enjoy it a little.


I was given this free review copy (ARC) audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.
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Very good audiobook

I definitely recommend this book, very high song quality, very attractive as story, I can’t wait futur books for the author…