Call Me Lonesome by Brett Cogburn
Morgan Clyde #2

Morgan Clyde gave up his star to play cat and mouse with a killer…who is prey and who predator AND who will win in the end?

What I liked:
* The gritty real feel of the story
* Morgan Clyde: intriguing man that I want to know better, lethal, quick, intelligent, capable, and a whole lot more.
* Dixie Rayburn: chief of railroad police after Clyde resigned, survivor, talkative, good man, hope to see more of him in the future
* Molly O’Flanagan: Irish immigrant, survivor, prostitute, addict, has dreams, wants revenge, difficult backstory, wonder what will happen to her as the story progresses
* Saul the cook and Hannah his fiancée: a couple that met years before and married for a short while in this story
* The Bickford family: blacksmith father, laundress mother, looking for a future in the west
* Sergeant Harjo and the Creek Lighthorse
* That the bad guys, and there were several, were eventually thwarted
* Wondering what will happen next in the series – Where will Morgan Clyde go next? Will he work for the railroad again? Will he return to Ironhead?

What I didn’t like:
* Exactly what and who I was meant not to
* Knowing that the evil in this book is all too real and likely to happen in the world…now and also back when this story took place

Note: The story had more than one thread that had me hopping from one to the other sometimes skipping ahead to find out what would happen. I never really warmed up to any of the characters but might over time.

Did I enjoy this book? For the most part
Would I read another book in this series? I believe so

Thank you to NetGalley and Kensington-Pinnacle for the ARC – This is my honest review.

4-5 Stars

I received an advance copy of this book in exchange for a review.
I read the first book in this series and enjoyed it quite a bit. This second book was only okay.
Author Brett Cogburn has a great character in Morgan Clyde.
This book just didn’t seem to do him any justice. His one man battle against the assassin known as The Traveler just left me kind of bored.
To my mind, the author redeemed my lack of interest for the beginning with a mostly satisfying ending.
I can say that I’m in for the author’s next book.

In the novel entitled “Call Me Lonesome” by Brett Cogburn, a familiar character named Morgan Clyde appears. Clyde, who is a former sharpshooter in the Yankee Army during the Civil War, appears as one of the storylines. Readers may remember him from an earlier novel “Smoke Wagon,” which is the first in this series of three.

This novel still finds Clyde associated with the pushing of the railroad westward, not in Indian Territory with all the issues of lawlessness that one might expect in that frontier area. But this novel also spends time with him being chased and chasing the Arkansas Traveler, who was a Rebel sharpshooter during the Civil War. Each seems to be determined to kill the other but only one is likely to be successful.

On the railroad front a protégé has been named the railroad police in Clyde’s absence. Lots of action in this area from graft and corruption, to drug dealing, to prostitution, and murder. A lot of happenings taking place for the reader to chew on.

This second novel did not seem to be as adventuresome in many aspects as the first but it was not a bad read and it was interesting to try to decipher who was doing what to whom…both on the trail that the Traveler and Morgan were blazing in the salt plains area of Oklahoma and in the two settlements where the railroad was moving. Definitely worth a read.

Call Me Lonesome, book two from A Morgan Clyde Western series. It was just an okay read. I am giving it three stars.