Robert Knott (1)
Auteur de Robert B. Parker's Ironhorse (A Cole and Hitch Novel)
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Robert Knott is an actor, writer, and producer. His extensive list of stage, television, and film credits include the feature film Appaloosa based on the Robert B. Parker novel, which he adapted and produced with actor and producer Ed Harris. This is his first novel. In 2014, his title Robert B. afficher plus Parker's Bull River made The New York Times Best Seller List. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
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- male
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- United States of America
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- Robert Knott is an actor, writer, and producer, as well as the author of the New York Times bestsellers Robert B. Parker’s The Bridge, Robert B. Parker’s Bull River, and Robert B. Parker’s Ironhorse. His extensive list of stage, television, and film credits include the feature film Appaloosa, based on the Robert B. Parker novel, which he adapted and produced with actor and producer Ed Harris.
A third-generation actor, writer, and producer, Robert Knott descended from colorful cowboy stock--his grandparents had a traveling tent show that followed the wheat harvest throughout the West. When the show closed, his family settled in Oklahoma, where he was born and raised.
The Old West may run through Knott's veins, but he's a seasoned Hollywood veteran. Plus, he writes like a dream, and his attention to every detail of history, weaponry, and language is spot-on.
Knott adapted and produced Appaloosa with actor and producer Ed Harris. Also among his credits is the television mini-series The Stand which is based on the Stephen King novel.
Knott was chosen by the Estate of author Robert B. Parker to carry on the Cole and Hitch series of western novels.
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Robert B. Parker's Ironhorse (A Cole and Hitch Novel) par Robert Knott
Western
Good. Not as good as Robert Parker but a worthy successor.
Just like in the previous novels in the series, the weakest parts of this installment were the ones where Knott tries to sound like Parker instead of going with his own style. At this point, it does not even make sense - Knott had written more novels in the series than Parker did and I suspect that most people who are following the series because of Parker had long ago realized that Knott is a different author with a different style.
The territorial marshals Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch are trying to have a nice day in Appaloosa (despite the town growing way too fast for their taste) when the news of an escape from one of the worst prisons in the area reaches them. Meanwhile, in an alternating narrative, we meet the man who engineered the escape. Cole and Hitch go chasing after the escapees and then investigating the escape, the escaped criminal goes on implementing his own plans - in Appaloosa. Anyone reading the novel knows that two two lines need to meet somewhere and when they do, Knott manages to pull a rare surprise (despite the double narrative) that ties the whole book together.
At this point I read these mostly as candy - they are not great (or sometimes even good) but they are familiar and short of the quality going down rapidly, they are a nice palate cleaner. Although this one was a lot more violent than any of the previous ones - and the series is violent to start with. Not a good place to start the series but if you are reading the series, it is actually not the worst of them (which is not exactly a ringing endorsement I know).… (plus d'informations)
The territorial marshals Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch are trying to have a nice day in Appaloosa (despite the town growing way too fast for their taste) when the news of an escape from one of the worst prisons in the area reaches them. Meanwhile, in an alternating narrative, we meet the man who engineered the escape. Cole and Hitch go chasing after the escapees and then investigating the escape, the escaped criminal goes on implementing his own plans - in Appaloosa. Anyone reading the novel knows that two two lines need to meet somewhere and when they do, Knott manages to pull a rare surprise (despite the double narrative) that ties the whole book together.
At this point I read these mostly as candy - they are not great (or sometimes even good) but they are familiar and short of the quality going down rapidly, they are a nice palate cleaner. Although this one was a lot more violent than any of the previous ones - and the series is violent to start with. Not a good place to start the series but if you are reading the series, it is actually not the worst of them (which is not exactly a ringing endorsement I know).… (plus d'informations)
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- Œuvres
- 7
- Membres
- 1,063
- Popularité
- #24,217
- Évaluation
- 3.3
- Critiques
- 69
- ISBN
- 78
