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    Treasure Mountain: The Sacketts

    Written by Louis L'Amour

    Narrated by David Strathairn

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    About this audiobook

    In Treasure Mountain, Louis L'Amour delivers a robust story of two brothers searching to learn the fate of their missing father-and finding themselves in a struggle just to stay alive.

    Orrin and Tell Sackett had come to exotic New Orleans looking for answers to their father's disappearance twenty years before. To uncover the truth, the brothers enlisted the aid of a trailwise Gypsy and a mysterious voodoo priest as they sought to re-create their father's last trek. But Louisiana is a dangerous land, and with one misstep the brothers could disappear in the bayous before they even set foot on the trail-a trail that led to whatever legacy their father had left behind . . . and a secret worth killing for.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateJun 4, 2002
    ISBN9780553714227
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    • 5/5
      Tell Sackett is back in this book with Orrin Sackett, whose taste in women has definitely not improved. This book has an interesting quest to find out what happened to their father. Yes, gold does creep in, but it wasn't the main focus in my mind. And there is another of L'Amour's spunky female characters that I like.The true love in this book is the land itself. From the canyons around the Red River and the Tucumcari Mountain, to the San Juan mountains, you can feel the love of the land and the freedom it represents.Were there some less than plausible moments? Yes. But fiction is rarely about "normal" life as it would be boring for the most part. The point is that I really liked the book.Who else would like it? People who enjoy Westerns or others who have followed the Sackett series.
    • 2/5
      This was "meh" to me. Orrin Sackett and Tell Sackett go out looking for "pa". They start in New Orleans, and make their way through Texas, ending up with Tyrel Sackett and Flagan Sackett. Nolan Sackett and Logan Sackett are mentioned. It's a happy Sackett family reunion.

      Except you never learn the name of "pa" or "ma".

      So, that's the first problem. The second problem is Just Another Story About Gold, and this time, it's front-and-center. Nothing unique that L'Amour has not already written. Just the main plot. Well, that's not entirely true. The main plot is finding out what happened to "pa". It just so happens that "pa" was lookin' for gold. Of course he got it, then hid it, then was dry gulched up in 'dem mountains, and no body has found the gold.

      Except Tell.

      Le sigh. There also exists a gaping plot hole in the book, that just sort of "is". When Tell is taking "ap" up the trail (of which he is an expert reader, to the point of reading a trail left 20 years prior), he gets shot at! Of course, it misses, barely skimming his ear. He pretends to fall off of his horse and play dead, hoping to draw the killer out, so he can shoots him up. Then, while waiting, he realizes that a group has been following him up on the trail. If they catch up, he'll be surrounded by Bad Guys, and no way out of that. The only way in and out is that 'der trail 'dem posse is coming up on.

      So, here's my question- how did the sharp shooter get ahead of Tell, if he's been riding the trail for days and days, if that's the only way in and out of the basin? He's an expert trail reader, better than an Apache, notices that he's got a posse following him, and he's following the trail made by "pa" 20 years prior, but he misses a clean, obvious, brand new trail left by an assassin?

      Not only is it not explained how this assassin miraculously gets into the basin ahead of Tell, but Tell misses the sign that someone went before him. That's just sloppy writing.

      Then, it borders on the ridiculous where right at the tail-end of the book, Tell has a gun pulled on his back at point blank range. The killer isn't going to dry gulch him, and orders Tell to turn around so he can see being killed. Tell "clears leather" during his about-face, and kills the killer! Even though the killer, at point blank range, first first, AND MISSES! Oh lordy.

      There is some redeeming quality about this book. It's not as bad as Lando, but it's not his best work either.
    • 3/5
      Sackett brothers Tell and Orrin head to New Orleans to follow the last trail of their missing father. Clues lead them back to New Mexico, and possibly an answer to a twenty-year mystery. Standard but enjoyable.
    • 4/5
      I was ready to not like this book, since I don't usually read Westerns. However, I found that I enjoyed it quite a bit, after the first chapter. The book starts in third-person, from Orrin Sackett's point of view, but most of the book is first-person, narrated by older brother Tell Sackett. Beginning in New Orleans, the Sackett brothers track down what happened to their father on a treasure hunt 20 years earlier.
    • 3/5
      Wiliam Sack and his brothers Tyrell and Orrin are trying to find out what happened to their dad as he left to search for gold. The family, including their mom, never knew what happened to their dad that long time ago. So the brothers decided to follow his track, the track of the treasure hunters...
    • 4/5
      Another good one. (Maybe I'm just partial to the Sacketts.) Orin and Tell team up with the Tinker and a black man named Judas Priest to follow a 20-year-old trail. They need to find out what happened to their father. He went west guiding a party from New Orleans and never returned. The trail may be old, but the motives are still fresh and deadly, and someone wants to make sure the answers are never found.
    • 5/5
      The Sackett boys track a twenty-year-old trail to satisfy their Ma. Orrin heads to New Orleans to discover what really happened to Pa, and runs into a deadly family who seems to know much more than they're telling. The trail leads West, of course, and involves gold and old betrayal. Orrin and Tell, along with the Tinker and Judas Priest, whose father had also gone West with that fateful party, head out to find the truth. Along the way they tangle with kidnappers, dry-gulchers, backstabbers, and Trelawney girls. But a Sackett never quits.