A review by nigellicus
Black Hat Jack by Joe R. Lansdale

5.0

Short, fast, western adventure set around the second Battle of Adobe Wells, which is a thing that happened, when a bunch of Indians got sick and tired of all their buffalo being shot and skinned and decided to kill a bunch of buffalo hunters and skinners holed up in a saloon. Bullets and arrows fly and Lansdale spins his yarn with his usual aplomb. Narrated by Nat Love, an ex-slave turned cowboy who has turned up in a few other Lansdale stories, this is a prequel or a taster of sorts to a forthcoming novel to which I am now very eagerly looking forward.