Cole and Hitch Novel Robert B. Parker's Bull River, Book 6, (Paperback)

from tom471

Robert Knott has written an enjoyable book. He has Parker's style down very well--short chapters and lean dialogue. Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch, deputy US Marshalls solve a bank robbery, kidnapping and some murders along the way. Both Cole and Hitch and their laconic speech style were created b...

from tomray

I've been a fan of Robert Parkers Spencer series since I read the first one but have never found his Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch to be that great but since his passing I think they have got better with other authors writing them.I did enjoy reading "Bull River"

from Leischen

It's hard to take another writer's characters and try to create a story true to the original. (See all the Star Trek & Star Wars novels that don't ring true.) Robert Parker even tried it with Raymond Chandler's Marlowe with varying degrees of success. Robert Knott takes my favorite Parker series ...

from RCW

I don't think I've ever read a western before, but Robert B. Parker's Bull River by Robert Knott was definitely an eye opener. The book had me so engrossed that after finishing it I was looking for more and I must say that now I have to read the other Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch stories, becaus...

from bjkelley

Just like with Robert Knott's previous entry Ironhorse into the Robert B. Parker series with Virgil Cole and Everette Hitch, Knott uses whole paragraphs for descriptions that Parker could have done in one sentence. Slows the pace of the book down and adds probably 30 or 40 unnecessary pages to th...