The Romantics

By Peter Brandvold

Book Overview

Jock Cameron never thought to love again after his fiancee was butchered by Apaches.But he's been captivated by a dusky beauty, Marina Clark, who is searching for lost Spanish gold with her... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812579305
• ISBN13: 9780812579307
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: Forge
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 4.2" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

One of the best western novels ever

Of all the western novels I've ever read, this one ranks right up there with the best. Action, adventure, suspense, violence, romance, a little sex, and hidden treasure. The author describes the beautiful, rugged scenery so well that I felt as though I were there. The story has it all, and I don't know what else I could ask for in a western tale.

GREAT WEASTERN!!!!!!

The is the first Brandvold book I have read. I sure plan on reading many more. It is one of the best westerns I have read in a long time. It is a story of Jack Cameron and his sidekicks who have been hired by Adrain Clark and his wife, Marina Clark to find a hidden treasure. They are chased by Apachies, Mexican soldiers and Gaston Bachelard and his gang. There is a lot of action and the book will hold your attention. I think you will like Cameron's friends, Jimmy, the kid, Bud Hotchkiss, Tokente and She Bear. Cameron is very tough, good with a gun or knife. He also has his tender side. I found myself skimming pages to see what happened next. If you like fast paced westerns you will like this book.

Living Hope

Peter Brandvold develops the characters in this story of gold seekers, each looking for more than gold. From the opening stage holdup to the climactic scene in a cave, this adventure held my attention throughout the well-developed theme of what motivates people and how that motivation plays out in each personality. Brandvold uses the term "romantic" to describe how a person lives his life in hope. Cameron didn't believe in any lost treasures when he first ran into the other gold seekers. His friend Going told him "You've lost your sense of romance" (chapter 20). Later Going told Marina "Well, I guess we're just romantics" (chapter 30) since they both held out hope of a treasure. And at the end of the book the same idea surfaces. All in all, this is a great story. I wish it would be made into a movie.

Brandvold took me to mexico

I could not put this book down...Peter Brandvold brought me to the abandoned Jesuit chapel and I never left my chair. The scenes, the people, the descriptions, all told the gritty tale of treasure hunting in the Sierra Madres. The details of the guns, clothing, and landscape all put you right into the book with Jack Cameron. Thanks, Mr. Brandvold, for taking me to Mexico with you.

A STORY OF ADVENTURE, COURAGE AND ROMANCE

From Peter Brandvold, author of ONCE A MARSHALL, ONCE MORE WITH A .44 and ONCE A LAWMAN comes a story of adventure, courage and romance as big as the country it takes place in. Jack Cameron agrees to guide Adrian Clark and his lovely wife Marina in search of hidden treasure in Mexico. Along the way this trio must battle Mexican Rurales, Apachies and Gaston Bachelard, a former Confederate officer turned outlaw and his Mexican revouutionary partner. If you have been searching for the next Louis L'Amour, you have found him in Peter Brandvold.