1970s Western Splatterpunk: Six-Gun Samurai & Sloane
1970s Western Splatterpunk: Six-Gun Samurai: Bushido Vengeance & Sloane: The Man with the Iron Fists By Mike Baker I’d finished the relentlessly dark Blood Meridian and then read Cormac McCarthy’s 3 rd book, Child of God , which, while entertaining enough for a Cormac McCarthy book, gets progressively more f’d up as Lester Ballard becomes unmoored from his humanity, descending into the hell of his unchecked subconscious. I needed a break—which is why I grabbed Six-Gun Samurai: Bushido Vengeance , which is book #2 in that series by “Patrick Lee”. When Tom Fletcher was a 12-year-old midshipman on duty at the American mission in Tokyo, the mission was attacked by ninjas. Everyone is massacred but Tom who escapes, is taken in, and adopted, by a Samurai who raises Tom as his own son, training him to be a Samurai warrior. When his American family is butchered by renegade Union soldiers, led by notorious Colonel Edward Holl
