This David versus Goliath story takes place in America’s heartland as a small farming town in Iowa falls to the machinations of greedy politicians and businessmen who sacrifice the town to their plans for increased wealth and power. They nearly decimate the town with drugs, crime, and poverty until a native son returns home for his mother’s funeral, her death coming as a result of the corruption that goes straight to the governor’s office. This native, prodigal son, is former military and together, with his buddies, take on the corruption in an epic battle to reclaim the town and defeat the evil forces set on ruining it for their personal gain. The book is a testament to the importance of community, family, the rule of law, and the values that have held this country together for generations.

Thank you to NetGalley and Kensington Publishing for an advanced reader copy in exchange for an honest review.

Wow! I loved this book. I love the idea of citizens taking a stand against corruption, unchecked crimes and drug dealers in their community. This was an action packed story with very flawed, but very relatable characters.

This is my first book by these authors and I am already anxiously awaiting the next one.. I will be recommending this book to all my family and friends.

Thank you to Pinnacle Books , Kensington and Netgalley for this advance copy in exchange for an honest review.

The Dead We Honor by William W. johnstone and J.A. Johnstone is a rather interesting story about money and power. I find that these stand alone books from the author are some of the best stories, the westerns are a little lame nowadays. I find that these books this one included are very satisfying when it comes to swift hard justice. I must thank Pinnacle Books , Kensington and Netgalley for supplying me with this advance copy.

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.

The Johnstones are back with their next bestseller. The Dead We Honor was an awesome book!A five star read!

First, too bad this book isn't out right now. The Springfield, Ohio, news sure dovetails with the travails presented here.

This is the direction the Johnstone Clan of writers need to go in across the many series.
I'll step further and write that the Johnstone Clan need to pull in their western series and expand from this a series of novels.
It reminds me of John Gilstrap's Johnathan graves series. Serious current issues handled with comic book force by a small group with winning results. It's fun, full of action and a good story. Silly at times, not the best writing, but good plotting and fun reading for me.

Previous Johnstone Clan 'Save America' books have been outrageous and ridiculous with preposterous ending, even for fun. The writing has also been so-so. This volume is far better plotted and written with signature strong Johnstone characters.
This book is also more rooted in reality. As mentioned above, this book reflects actual news in the U.s. and inklings of why our country is having the troubles mentioned.

The ending is a bit much, but not out of bounds. The ending also is part of the larger problem I've found in earlier Johnstone books. The ghost writers lack an understanding of levels of government. In this one,as with others, municipal, county and state government chain of command is absent. It's real easy to understand, just lot to these writers. For instance, in this book, the governor is running a county. they can't do that. The county would have a commission form of government of some sort. that county government would have to be usurped by a governor. As far as I'm aware no state constitution gives a governor that kind of power. The Feds would step in. There's also and odd combo of state police and county (or is it city? That, too, is confusing.) police. The two are shuffled in an impossible way, due to how each would be run separately. Even with inter-local agreements. John Gilstrap gets the government levels correct.

I'd mark this book down severely for this, but the Johnstone Clan of writers is not alone. i find this in much current media today. Worse, in the news media.

Still, this is a lot of fun. kind of like a Donald Pendleton novel with superior writing.

Bottom line: I recommend this book. 9 out of ten points.