Title: Bloodthirsty

Series: Buckhorn #3

Author: William W.Johnstone, & J.A. Johnstone

pages: 384

In all the horrific corners of the Civil War, there was no hell worse than Andersonville, the Yankee prison camp run by evil, sadistic General Thomas Wainwright. In the war’s aftermath, a survivor of Andersonville summons Joe Buckhorn to New Orleans, and asks the gunslinger to kill the general—not simply for revenge, but to stop another atrocity.



Wainwright has seized control of Wagontongue, a township on the edge of the Arizona desert, and he rules it as brutally as he once did Andersonville. With an iron grip on the town’s only source of water, he keeps the locals cowering under his cruel heel. Buckhorn rides on Wagontongue to overthrow the merciless despot, and finds that Wainwright has plans for a bloody revolution, which Buckhorn will shoot through Hell and back to stop


My thoughts

rating4.5

Thanks to Kensington publishing I keep finding ways of fell back in love with William W.Johnston & J.A.Johnstone, work , this is book 3 in the series and the series just keeps getting better and better , the characters seem to grew with each story and they seem more real then they did in the last book, and every time I read more of this series I always want more ,with that said I want to thank Netgalley and Kensington for letting me read and review it exchange for my honest opinion.

The Johnstone series read like a family tree of heroes. Not all are cowboys but they all believe in justice and taking care of business. This book continues that legacy. As our hero works to stop the bad guy from terrorizing a townspeople and much worse, he'll fight off those who would stand against him. Johnstone books always contain a definite good and bad guy plus a cast of characters that make the stories realistic. The back story includes enough history that you feel as if you can see the dusty streets and hear the gun fights. I've read many, many Johnstone books and I'll keep reading them as long as JA keeps writing them.

Bloodthirsty, the third installment from the Buckhorn series. I thought it was a great read and am giving it five stars.

When the worst of all - a corrupt, warden from the Civil War’s Andersonville Prison - sets up shop in an Arizona town, he tries to rule the town and its people just like he did the prison. And we meet Joe Buckthorn, a no-nonsense gunslinger who seems to attract attention, wanted or unwanted wherever he goes. When he takes on the task to rid the Arizona town of its nemesis, the action is nonstop, as we’ve come to expect in all Johnstone books.

From the first page of J.A. Johnstone's Bloodthirsty (Penguin Random House 2019), Book 3 of A Buckhorn Western, Joe "Buck" Buckhorn attracts trouble. First, he gets attacked on the boat taking him down the Mississippi to his next gunslinger job, then again debarking the boat, and another time during his job interview in a stately estate of his rich employer. All of these criminals underestimate the graying cowboy who dresses like a dandy, not realizing that his no-nonsense no backup attitude smells deceit before it's close enough to do any danger. The job, which he accepts, is to stop the violent and criminal takeover of an Arizona town by a vicious former Union officer who is buying up all the farm-  and ranch land by any means necessary. He has quickly become the largest and most powerful landowner in the area, kept in power by an army of gunslingers who defend his interests. What those are is part of what Buck must figure out. All he has is himself and his cleverness, which he figures will do fine.  How it works out is vintage Johnstone with can't-miss twists and turns that keep readers turning the pages.

I’ve enjoyed all of William Johnston’s nephew's books as J.A. fills the big shoes left by his legendary Uncle, a Western storyteller without equal, but in Buck Buckhorn, J.A. has found a character to own. I wish there were more than three books in the series.

--to be reviewed on my blog, WordDreams, 2/2019