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Ted Thackrey Jr

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I loved this book. It has a timeless western feel but is set in the modern day in New Mexico. Preacher is a seminarian who dropped the priesthood after Vietnam, fled to the mountains and then became a professional poker player. There is so much more to all that but….read the book. You won’t be disappointed.

The book starts out strong and never flags for one minute. It is one of those books you desperately want to get back to reading. The opening scene is a poker game and it introduces almost every major character that will play a role in the book.

The story is great fun. There is action. There is a horrible Deputy Sheriff. There is humor. Black humor. There is a love interest that is not overly gooey. In fact, it’s not gooey at all and the female characters are as strongly written as the male characters. Preacher is someone you want to read more about and I have to say, I was devastated when I read that the author had passed away.

Without giving too much away, the story is about a small town and the cover ups perpetrated by the wealthy movers and shakers. Preacher is called in by a fellow seminarian and now town priest who believes there are hijinks afoot and that a fellow Vietnam Vet and town helicopter pilot, was killed even though it is being called suicide.

This is worth finding, buying and reading. Regardless of price.
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ozzie65 | 1 weitere Rezension | Sep 12, 2016 |
Ted Thackrey died in 2001 after writing three Preacher books. This is the first. It is one of the older mysteries and thrillers Brash is reissuing in digital format.

The Preacher is a one-eyed ex-priest and ex-soldier who makes his living playing professional poker. Poker is as much an art as a mathematical science and The Preacher is an artist.

Something is rotten in the town of Farewell, New Mexico, and The Preacher's old friend, Father Jake asks him to come sniff out what is going on.

I liked this book very much. It is an old-fashioned western set in the modern Southwest. Bad guys are after water and land. Dangerous enemies face off across a poker table. Women are strong and feminine. The man of the cloth has steel beneath.

I love the cover.

I received a review copy of "The Preacher" by Ted Thackrey directly from Brash Books.
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