A review by blevins
Brimstone by Robert B. Parker

3.0

I think this may have been Parker's last novel before recently passing away--maybe I'm wrong? He revisits the world of the western and the characters Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch--who were featured in the film APPALOOSA. It's a western with shoot outs, bad guys, horses, saloons, dusty streets, clipped dialogue. The dialogue is so short it feels more like conversation from a crime novel (where Parker has done most of his writing) than a western. These two worlds are kind of similar when it comes to the way people talk more than likely. Okay, but not blow the barn door off good. Just an entertaining, short, quick read set in a familiar world of the "western" that I enjoy every so often.