Elmer Kelton's

The Familiar Stranger

by

Steve Kelton and John Bradshaw

Hewey Calloway is traveling to a friend's place when he gets caught in the rain. He seeks shelter in a cabin and finds a young man there with smallpox. Even though the young man warns Hewey and tells him to leave, Hewey stays and gets the dreaded disease himself.

While this book was well written and it flowed well enough, it got off to a reasonable start with Hewey, the young stranger, and then the Pinkerton, but it never elevated to the heights I expected it to. Some others may find it good, but for me it just wasn't.

Thanks to Netgalley for the opportunity to review this story.