F. M. Parker, Author Dutton Books $17.95 (254p) ISBN 978-0-453-00655-2
Mexico in 1877, on the verge of Civil War, is the setting of Parker's latest western. The caudillos , large landowners with private armies, are poised to overthrow the government of President Porfirio Diaz. When Ken Larrway, a young American...
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F. M. Parker, Author Dutton Books $15.95 (222p) ISBN 978-0-453-00585-2
Parker is well-known for his westerns (Nighthawk, Shadow of the Wolf), and this novel is a hybrid of history and western that does not quite work. As a western, it is a little out of the ordinary, but as a re-creation of General Scott's campaign...
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F. M. Parker, Author Dutton Books $16.95 (252p) ISBN 978-0-453-00619-4
A ``mere shadow of a man'' is the way trapper Jacob Tammarron is described by the father of Petra Solis, a well-off Mexican woman he wants to marry. It's 1846, and Tammarron has abandoned his solitary life in the mountains to find a wife and become...
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F. M. Parker, Author Dutton Books $16.95 (247p) ISBN 978-0-453-00701-6
Parker's ( The Shadow Man ) engaging western is set against the backdrop of the New Orleans Yellow Fever epidemic of 1847. Tim Wollfolk, an accountant for a Cincinnati steamboat company, heads to New Orleans to claim a large inheritance. En route,...
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F. M. Parker, Author Dutton Books $17.95 (280p) ISBN 978-0-453-00734-4
Though characterization is not his strong suit, Parker follows his many adventure novels of the American frontier ( The Assassins ) with this interesting account of the 1856-1860 Mormon prairie treks to Utah, during which almost 3000 converts hauled
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F. M. Parker, Author Signet Book $3.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-451-16846-7
In this western set in 1847, a man assumes the identity of someone he thinks has been murdered, claims his inheritance and carries on his family business only to find him still alive and vowing revenge. ``Parker's narrative is well-paced and packed...
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