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Mobley's Law, A Mobley Meadows Novel (English Edition) Formato Kindle

Edizione Inglese di Gerald Lane Summers (Autore), Lesley K. Payne (a cura di) Formato: Formato Kindle
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Federal Governor, Edmund Jackson Davis, has ruled Texas with an iron fist since the end of the Civil War, but must now stand for election against a majority of citizens made up of ex-confederate sympathizers and soldiers. President Grant appoints Judge Mobley Meadows to the Texas Federal Circuit Court and charges him with preventing the situation from getting out of hand. Davis quickly realizes that Mobley is a threat when he overturns the Governor’s land reappraisal decree, a source of graft for Davis’s supporters, and sends his personal assassin to get rid of Mobley.

Mobley and his two deputy marshals, Edson Rabb, a handsome Cherokee Indian, and Jack Anthony Lopes, the illegitimate son of General Santa Ana and the English Lady Madeleine Smythe, are repeatedly attacked on their journey from Waco to Austin. They know Davis is behind the attacks, but they cannot make a case against him.

Davis loses the election by a majority of two to one, but arranges for his personally appointed state Supreme Court to overturn the election on a technicality involving a single misplaced semi-colon in the new Texas constitution. He then refuses to leave office or to participate in a trial in Mobley’s court.

Davis’s opponent, Richard Coke, does not accept this decision and with his supporters storms the state administrative building in Austin. Davis’s forces counterattack and manage to take back the first floor of the building. A standoff then prevails that can only be resolved by the action of President Grant. Mobley suggests a course of action to the president, that in the end works, but not without Mobley having to compromise his beliefs, his sense of honor, and everything he thinks he stands for.
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B004C446J6
  • Editore ‏ : ‎ Gerald Lane Summers; 1° edizione (11 luglio 2011)
  • Lingua ‏ : ‎ Inglese
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Stan
4,0 su 5 stelle non stop action
Recensito nel Regno Unito il 3 settembre 2013
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I'm not a great fan of Westerns, but I did enjoy this. Non- stop action, corpses everywhere, bad baddies and good goodies, what more do you need? It also gives a good context of the state of the Nation (Texas anyway) after the civil war., which puts the violence into some context. Interesting to note that the baddie politicians in this case were the ones giving black emancipation while the goodies were ex-confederates who opposed it. Nothing is straight forward.
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5,0 su 5 stelle Not Your Father's Western!
Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 7 settembre 2011
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NOT YOUR FATHER'S WESTERN. So you think you don't like reading westerns. Well, think again. That's what I thought, too, until I read MOBLEY'S LAW by Gerald Lane Summers, and discovered that this entertaining, intelligent, informative and well-crafted novel is not your father's western. Instead, MOBLEY'S LAW is a well-written story, about memorable characters, that just happens to be set in Texas in the tumultuous years just after the Civil War. MOBLEY'S LAW, as a "western", transcends the genre in all important respects. It gives us a fast paced, multi-layered plot, richly textured characters who we can (and do) care about, and an extraordinary sense of place.

The author's writing skills - which are substantial - are demonstrated in all the core areas of novel writing - plot, story (No, Virginia, they are not the same), characters, setting, and dialogue. At the risk of seeming to denigrate three novel writing areas in which Summers shows considerable skill (not my intention at all), I want to single out two areas of novel writing in which Summers shows extraordinary skill: his use of physical/geographical and atmospheric setting and his use of dialogue.

Summers' achievement in MOBLEY'S LAW is that he is able to use setting and dialogue to define his characters and to further the plot, and that is quite an achievement for any writer to pull off. As you read the book, you see and feel what the characters see and feel. As you listen to the characters speak, you become a silent participant in the dialogue, not a third-party reader.

And, last but not least, did I mention his main character, Mobley Meadows? For the record, Mobley (as he likes to be called) is a keeper.

As you can probably tell, I anxiously await the publication of the next Mobley book.
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BPL
4,0 su 5 stelle Larger than life
Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 17 novembre 2012
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This is a novel of sweeping scope with complex characters and an intricate plot. The dialog is unusually well done. I normally don't read westerns (unless "Roughing It counts), but I love history. Summers has woven the plot around historical events, in a manner a bit like Fredrick Forsythe, and as far as I can tell did a good job. It was an enjoyable read and kept me engaged. The only criticism I have is the main characters seem a bit too much larger than life; they could shoot straighter, out ride, and out smart almost everyone else. Does that add value to the story? Some character flaws and missteps would have given the book more depth. Otherwise, well done!
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Joseph Aragon
5,0 su 5 stelle A fine novel with a memorable protagonist!
Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 4 ottobre 2019
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There are so many fine reviews that have been written about this richly textured novel, that it is a challenge to attempt an additional tribute worthy of Gerald Lane Summers' wonderful story. The main protagonist, Mobley F. Meadows, is a shrewd, rough-hewn, impressively resourceful Circuit Court Judge dispatched to Texas by President Ulysses S. Grant. Texas is facing a possible internal civil war and the president needs Mobley's assessment. Mobley arrives and with characteristic bravado, simply materializes Federal Court proceedings on the open prairie. Why? Well, dangit, because there is no other, more convenient venue! Judge, defendants, plaintiffs and observers sit or stand on bare dirt, flies aplenty around them as the court soberly (and often, hilariously) considers evidence, weighs judicial arguments, deliberates, and renders judgment with a Solomonic wisdom and magnanimity that stupefies all and engenders a reverential respect from not only the varmints, but also those who have felt themselves helpless in the face of corrupt officials. Apart from the colorful characters, like Jack and Edson, Yancy Potts and Ferdie Lance, who populate this imaginative tale as redeemed men or unbridled scoundrels, there is something else I found exceptional about Summers' telling. It’s the evident love of and description of the pristine beauty of the Texas landscape and wildlife that must have confronted the eye in the 1870’s. Chapter 7 where Mobley looks out on the Brazos valley, is but one example: "The river rushes were alive with activity, red winged blackbirds singing in their thousands, high pitched warbles all combined in a massive chime not unlike a boys choir all talking in high “C” at once. Swallows, White Egrets and long necked waterfowl of unknown species swooped and careened about their territories, all in a coordinated display that had probably been repeated at this very spot for hundreds of thousands of years." No author of historical fiction can ever truly pull the reader in if he/she cannot put one in that moment, how it was, how it felt, smelled, looked. Gerald Summers does this with great skill, attention to detail and genuine affection. What an impressive story! I’m on to my next Summers novel.
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3,0 su 5 stelle Good wild west fiction with colorful characters - very little history
Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 16 agosto 2013
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The book is a fun read with diverse, almost bigger-than-life characters lead by U.S Circuit Court Judge Mobley Meadows. Mobley, who is literally bigger than anyone else in the story shows a flare for drama as he conducts court anywhere it suits him. One wretched defendant disrespected the judge and found out the hard way that you only make that mistake once. I hoped the author would work in more history of Texas during those early, turbulent years after the Civil War. The story kept me interested but once I realized this was more fiction than history I was hoping for a more brink-of-disaster, edge-of-my-seat story line as Texas teetered on internal civil war. The climax should have been as big as the characters portrayed. On the plus side, even though you sense that the good guys will win in the end (just like my favorite 1960's TV westerns), you don't know what price they will pay along the way - right up to the last showdown.
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