There is no such thing as a bad Johnstone western. Each series is built around main characters whose belief in the law and family is absolute, even if they've had to be reformed to get there. From Preacher, the original mountain man to the Jensen family to Perly Gates, to.....well, you get the point. Many times, characters from one series will show up in another as supporting hands. The communities are true to the era, clothing, guns, food and troubles are all what you'd find if you looked them up in the history books. No two stories are the same, each character or set of characters is unique and so are their stories. The writing is skillful, readers are pulled into the story and you will laugh and cry right along with the characters. I made the mistake of picking up a Johnstone western my uncle was reading. Ive been hooked ever since. Now I share them with my reading family and will continue as long as new Johnstones are released.

Luke Jensen is considered one of the fastest gunmen in the west, but even he can have an off day. Especially when he's babysitting a group of men who should be able to hold their own. The one thing you can count on, there will be guns, bullets and blood.

Has Luke Jensen met his match? A half Ute half European American is leading a band of killers across Arizona killing innocent travelers homesteaders and anyone who crosses their path. First Luke has to catch some bond jumpers and get out of a shoot out on the riverboat and other small battles he even saves a woman from captivity who’s chained to a fence but before it’s over these two will meet can Luke stop him before he becomes a national problem? I love Luke Jensen books there’s always mini show downs and he’s always getting the upper hand on the bad guy but there is something I truly love about Luke and his staunch principles and the things he stands up for like most good heroes he is haunted by his past that doesn’t stop him from handing out justice and taking up for the little man if you are a fan of westerns then you need to do yourself a favor and read the Luke Jensen books by William and Jay Johnstone this is truly americana at its best. I love the residents of Johnstone country in Luke and his cousin smoke or my favorite I want to thank NetGalley and Kensington books for my free arc copy please forgive any mistakes as I am blind and dictate my review.

Quite a Johnstone misstep. Hard to write there is a plot involved. This is basically a long, MatthewReilly-esque chase book. Except with nearly non-stop fighting, explosions, bloody body parts and plenty of death. Of the 275 Johnstone books I've read, this may be the bloodiest. There's really no need to have the repetitive pieces of skull references.

There are all sorts of dialogue issues. Characters mostly sound of 2023, than late 1800s. Even the bad guys sound well-educated.

One thing this book does do is move. There is very little of the excesses I find in more recent Johnstone books. Thing, is the character development barely exists, as I find the hallmark of all Johnstone books, and I found I really didn't care whatever happened to whoever.

Bottom line: I don't recommend this book. 2 out of ten points. Of all the Johnstone books I've read, this is one of, maybe, 5 I've given such a low rating.

Luke Jensen is one of my favorite characters in the Jensen ecosystem, along with Smoke Jensen and Preacher the Mountain Man. Luke is a bounty hunter who loves the freedom of traveling wherever he wishes with few obligations and less worries. And he’s good at his job. In William Johnstone's The Bullet Stops Here (Pinnacle 2023), #10 of the Luke Jensen Bounty Hunter series, Luke has set up the long game to capture not just a high priced owl hoot but his entire gang. It promises to make him a boatload of money so he is moving carefully, picks a floating gambling parlor as the place to do the takedown. It goes well until it doesn't and then it all falls apart. The owl hoot knows Luke is there to kill him and has his own plan to rob the casino and stop Luke. What complicates everyone's plans is that another bounty hunting team--backed by one of the prominent detective agencies of the time, Pinkerton--is also there for the same reason. Luke (of course) succeeds, but not without a lot of trouble and a personal promise to avoid this particular team in the future. That--no surprise--doesn't work and soon, we're well into another crazy Luke Jensen bounty hunting adventure.

This is a good read with a lot of the usual elements of a Luke Jensen adventure, but in this case, a tad heavy on action and a little light on clever. Still, anyone who loves this series or any of the Jensen stories will find reading this story is time well spent.

It was great catching up with Luke Jensen in The Bullet Stops Here. I thought it was a pretty good story to read. Four and a half star.s

Luke Jensen is not my favorite Jensen series by William W. Johnstone and J.A. Johnstone but The Bullet Stops Here was a great western, lots of bad guys and gunplay. How much trouble can a bounty hunter get himself into? Well, in this book there is alot and then some. We have riverboats, attacked villages, mexican rurales, indians and tracking bad guys. He even has problems with the Pinkerton detectives. It was a fast read with a quick pace and lots of action, not your typical Luke Jensen story. Thanks to Pinnacle, Kensington Books and Netgalley for giving me this advance copy.