. . but not riveting. What more can I say, I do like C. J. Box novels, and hope to read them all, A lawyer in Montana is taken hostage by the loser of a trial concerning an estate dispute that the lawyer won for a client, The layer having access to the estate, they now travel through a snow storm to take valuables from the estate, It turns out the the owner of the estate made his money by exporting pronghorns to the Third Reich, While fiction, the short tale is based on an actual photo,
I did not realize this ebook was so short, I am mostly not a fan of very short stories, Just as one is getting into the characters and story, the story stops, usually abruptly as this one does, A quirky short tale. Not bad.
The GR blurb:
In frigid Wyoming lies a mystery that stretches back to Nazi Germany
Lyle and Juan wait outside the lawyers house in ski masks, pistols hidden behind their backs.
Shortly after dawn, Paul Parker, an aged lawyer, and his old dog step into the cold, The thugs kill the dog, and take the lawyer hostage, Parkers day has started badly and is going to get much worse,
Once a fine lawyer, Parkers enthusiasm has slipped with age, and criminals like Lyle are part of the reason for his disillusionment, Years after they last saw each other in court, Lyle is convinced that Parker owes him something, At gunpoint, Lyle and Juan make Parker lead them to the old Angler ranch, to open up a hidden library whose volumes hold the secret to forgotten riches, and the strangest war profiteering scheme to ever come out of the Great Plains.
This short novella is based on a picture showing American pronghorns being delivered to Hitler's Germany in, Box has taken this picture and created a creative fictional story around this true premiss, The actual picture is included with the story,
Two men have kidnapped a lawyer during a blizzard, This lawyer defended against one of these men's grandfather's assertion that he was swindled out of money he should have gotten from his old partner because they both owned the airplane that captured and delivered the pronghorn.
The interplay of the growing storm, good and evil, and an attitude of 'deserving something' because of past events is made into a fast passed story in the deft hands of C J Box.
Short, but definitely worth the read!! SHORT, AND OH, SO IRONIC
I did not expect the ending, I didn't expect the beginning!
It's a splendid, wonderfully brutal, cold short story,
Despite being very short, all the characters are complete, I could hear the voices and the almost boundless whine of the dog, In the end, I confess to a bark of something like laughter, Two criminals kidnap the lawyer they believe cheated them out of a big fortune, The fortune isn't anything I could have foreseen, Even though it is a wild story, there is some truth to it, Interesting.
This one was not great, not awful, But the part with the dog broke my heart, Excellent mystery!!! The setting was fascinating, the family history gripping, and the ending perfect, Very short read, but worth it, CJ Box does not disappoint, Taking a break from his Joe Pickett series, sitelinkC, J. Box has penned a wonderful short story with a supremely ironic twist, Be sure to set aside the time to read Pronghorns of the Third Reich in one sitting because you won't be able to break away.
Efficient and fast!
Interesting story
A picture is worth a thousand words! Funny little story that seems to be a little symbolic of the title.
This one of those stories where passed down lore is a question amp greed comes into play, One, our main character Paul, is a lawyer who handled an estate that another, who is our main bad guy Lyle kidnaps w/ a helper Juan who is only halfheartedly helpful.
Lyle believes a tale told to him by his grandpa one where he believes his family has been cheated out of great wealth, The ending is total irony!!! I sure wish there was more to the story, Well written! In frigid Wyoming lies a mystery that stretches back to Nazi Germany
Lyle and Juan wait outside the lawyers house in ski masks, pistols hidden behind their backs.
Shortly after dawn, Paul Parker, an aged lawyer, and his old dog step into the cold, The thugs kill the dog, and take the lawyer hostage, Parkers day has started badly and is going to get much worse,
Once a fine lawyer, Parkers enthusiasm has slipped with age, and criminals like Lyle are part of the reason for his disillusionment, Years after they last saw each other in court, Lyle is convinced that Parker owes him something, At gunpoint, Lyle and Juan make Parker lead them to the old Angler ranch, to open up a hidden library whose volumes hold the secret to forgotten riches, and the strangest war profiteering scheme to ever come out of the Great Plains.
Wish the story could have gone
on,
Good start and very intriguing, I wanted the book to continue as I am sure this could be a fun one, Did Anyone show up in the storm Well written short story by this author, It gave what it needed in terms of the shortness but I do wish it was longer! Set in Wyoming, Lyle and Juan kidnap Paul, a lawyer whom Lyle believes cheated him out of his grandpappys inheritance and take him to a ranch whose bookshelves hold a dubious “treasure”
CJ Boxs contribution to the Bibliomysteries series is the worst one yet! The whole point of this series is for the stories to revolve around books whereas they only tangentially feature here.
The inspiration behind the story is a photograph fromwhich is included at the end showing a German zeppelin floating above the American heartland being loaded up with longhorns its a great photo and about the only positive aspect of this crappy enterprise!
It sounds like an exciting premise and has an eyecatching title but it turns out to be a slow, plodding read with nexttonothing happening to the small cast of dull characters and an unmemorable ending that Ive already forgotten and I read this yesterday! Its a quick read but still terrible dont bother with Pronghorns of the Third Reich.
read this one today. good story. o henry kinda ending. based on a real photograph, As short stories go, this wasn't bad, Amazing story
Short but powerful, I could feel the cold, the wind, the fear and the anger, In a very short time the author conveyed the tragedy of poverty and the consequences of a misuse of power, Absolutely worth reading. I'm a big CJ Box fan, But I don't read books electronically, so I was excited when I discovered that my library had this novella in their audiobooks collection!
It is very violent and there is lots of swearing! :/ I listen to audiobooks in the car and I could not play this while my kids were in the car.
There were also no Nazis in the story just a WWera connection to the Berlin Zoo and a couple printed editions of Mein Kampf in German.
And those didn't appear until over half way through the story,
After listening and filtering out the rough language and Nazi red herring, it was in interesting little story, A good story. Very clever short story. I have no idea where it was going, It ended quite satisfactory. BTW when you type in pronghorn to search for this book only one comes up, I guess theres not a lot of need for the word pronghorn in titles these days, This is a short that is based on revenge for a stolen legacy, It was just okay, but I did like the fact that it had an interesting real story at its base, A lawyer is kidnapped in the midst of a Montana snowstorm due to a dispute over a estate settlement, The losing side is determined to prove his grandfather is telling the truth, but is willing to steal and sell the estate's library instead, A very twisty ending to this tale, Great short page turner by CJ Box with a historic twist ending, You don't usually think of Nazi's and ranch hands that is what intriuged, Did not disappoint. I wanted it to go on, That is what Mr. Box does so well. Onto another CJ Box adventure, Bibliomysteries Novella. Interesting since it was based on a true photo and person though the plot was fictional, Didn't feature his regular characters, Good thing the dog wasn't shot or I'd be really pissed at the author, C. J. Box is theNew York Times bestselling author ofnovels including the Joe Pickett series, He won the Edgar Alan Poe Award for Best Novel Blue Heaven,as well as the Anthony Award, Prix CalibreFrance, the Macavity Award, the Gumshoe Award, two Barry Awards, and theMountains Plains Independent Booksellers Association Award for fiction.
He was recently awarded theWestern Heritage Award for Literature by the National Cowboy Museum as well as the Spur Award for Best Contemporary Novel by the Western Writers of America in.
The novels have been translated intolanguages, Box is a Wyoming native and has worked as a ranch hand, surveyor, fishing guide, a small town newspaper reporter and editor, and he c C.
J. Box is theNew York Times bestselling author ofnovels including the Joe Pickett series, He won the Edgar Alan Poe Award for Best Novel Blue Heaven,as well as the Anthony Award, Prix CalibreFrance, the Macavity Award, the Gumshoe Award, two Barry Awards, and theMountains Plains Independent Booksellers Association Award for fiction.
He was recently awarded theWestern Heritage Award for Literature by the National Cowboy Museum as well as the Spur Award for Best Contemporary Novel by the Western Writers of America in.
The novels have been translated intolanguages, Box is a Wyoming native and has worked as a ranch hand, surveyor, fishing guide, a small town newspaper reporter and editor, and he co owns an international tourism marketing firm with his wife Laurie.
They have three daughters. An avid outdoorsman, Box has hunted, fished, hiked, ridden, and skied throughout Wyoming and the Mountain West, He served on the Board of Directors for the Cheyenne Frontier Days Rodeo, Box lives in Wyoming. from the author's websiteSeries: sitelink Joe Pickett sitelink sitelink,
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