From The Listening Hills: Stories (2004) - Plot & Excerpts
*** "From the Listening Hills" is twelve short stories by Louis L'Amour, mostly clever courage under hard circumstances. I enjoyed all the classic western action, except the title tragedy of a whole family persecuted and decimated by a rumor-monger villain. Two memorable unique crime tales, both with deceptive females, are in another collection too. "Sand Trap" tells about an ex-soldier framed for murder by a honey trap dame and her lover. The lone hero cleverly and expertly uses the desert to try to elicit confessions from the citified perpetrators. "Anything for a Pal" sadly shows the wages of sin. A mob assassin shoots one last victim set to testify against a jailed associate, and dreams of resigning to live in peace with his only family, a protected innocent younger brother [spoiler: who turns out to be the informer mark pointed out by their lady of the night]. I skipped strictly boxing and football detailed recitals, out of my league. Quasi-nativity natives in a maybe religious moral left me flat. Stirring plots about wartime espionage boil the blood, but confuse in terminology. Did people really call amphibian planes - "ships"?
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