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  • The Bounty Hunters

  • By: Elmore Leonard
  • Narrated by: Josh Clark
  • Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
  • 3.9 out of 5 stars (83 ratings)

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The Bounty Hunters

By: Elmore Leonard
Narrated by: Josh Clark
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Publisher's summary

The old Apache renegade Soldado Viejo is hiding out in Mexico, and the Arizona Department Adjutant has selected two men to hunt him down. One -- Dave Flynn -- knows war, the land, and the nature of his prey. The other is a kid lieutenant named Bowers. But there's a different kind of war happening in Soyopa. And if Flynn and his young associate choose the wrong allies -- and the wrong enemy -- they won't be getting out alive.

©1979 Elmore Leonard (P)2010 HarperCollins Publishers
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Might have been good if

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It might have been a lot better but the narrator whispered the whole thing. There was no reason to unless that's his style but for me it was a struggle to get through.

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good story

This is one of Elmore Leonard's earlier books. good story got slow in middle finished well

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Macho Men are Stoics

Is it trope writing if you codified the trope? Characters were easier to distinguish if I replaced their names with titles, "brooding loner", "grizzled mentor", and "green recruit" versus "lazy drunken Mexican", "noble savage freedom fighter" and "evil bureaucrat", women's value is determined by their "purity", pistol duels and being saved by the cavalry. I didn't hate it.

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The Bounty Hunters

This was a bit different version of old theme of Army vs Indians only this time the army is two men sent into Mexico to bring back the Warm Spring Apache. The men find a wagon of local villagers killed by local scalp hunters and make friends of local villagers. Some nail biting excitement with a fast pace story. A nice change of pace story, it is great to read a western now and then..

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A really good story

Great story well worth listening to and Josh Clark's voice was perfect for this story.

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Recommended

Great narration, very excellent story for a first novel! A little long, but a good listen.

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whisper

A fair Elmore Leonard story. The whispering narrator trying to sound menacing was not helpful.

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Dreadful Narration

As always, the story by Elmore Leonard is gripping, fast-paced and unpredictable. Unfortunately, the breathy, rasping narration by Josh Clark is dreadful. The characters aren't differentiated, so they all sound the same. Men supposedly in their early twenties are voiced by what sounds like a 90-year-old man dying of emphysema or throat cancer. This makes an otherwise great story virtually unlistenable. Do better, Audible - please re-release this story with a different narration. Elmore Leonard deserves better than this.

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