Tell Sackett is helping someone get to LA from AZ by crossing the Mojave Desert. ( )

Mojave Crossing by Louis L’Amour is part of the on-going Sackett Family series. In this outing we once again join Tell Sackett as he packs his hard earned gold to California. He plans to see the gold for a better price than he can get in Arizona. On his return he hopes to buy land and start a cattle ranch. His romance with Ange has been put on hold as she went back east to visit relatives and he hasn’t heard from her.

He meets a lady and agrees to help her in crossing the Mojave Desert and reaching Los Angeles, this good deed opens a can of worms as before he knows it they are being tailed through the desert and shot at. This gang eventually catches them, take the woman and the gold and leave Tell for dead. Of course, Tell vows to find them and retrieve his gold. As he battles a number of bad guys for his gold, he meets up with a cousin, Nolan Sackett, and although he has been working on the wrong side of the law, when push comes to shove, blood is thicker than water.

A quick, action packed read that I thought was a good addition to the series. ( )

Western

Tell Sackett hade femton kilo guld och inga bekymmer - förrän han kom fram till färjan över Coloradofloden. Där hann trubblet upp honom i form av en vacker svartögd kvinna. Och på andra sidan floden väntade den hetaste, torraste och grymmaste öknen i världen.
Nolan Sackett var på flykt från en snara runt halsen när han stötte på Sylvie. Hon försökte förgifta honom och lade sig i bakhåll med ett hagelgevär. Men han hade knappt skjutit sig fri förrän han träffade Penelope. Han borde inte ha lyssnat på henne, men det verkade som han aldrig lärde sig.

This is the first Sackett novel I read. Really satisfying! ( )