Review of "Iron Mustang," by Jake Logan

Review of

Iron Mustang, by Jake Logan ISBN 9780867211023

Three out of five stars

 In keeping with the series of books featuring Slocum, there are sex scenes that are explicitly described, and done very well. However, they are not enough to make a quality western, there must be a solid plot that involves the features that define the genre. In this case, the plot is too wild to be plausible.

 The story opens with Slocum and his cowboy friends riding back to Ashland, Montana after taking a herd to Kansas. For reasons that they do not understand, their boss insisted that they ride back to Montana in order to get paid. When they get back to Ashland, they discover that their boss has skipped town and they just missed him as he departed on a train.

 Furious at being cheated, Slocum and his pals get some horses and give chase, managing to catch the train. However, the train has been commandeered by a gang led by a strong and ruthless murderer that escaped from prison by dynamiting the wall. Now that they are prisoners of a sort, Slocum and his friends are forced to obey the gang’s instructions as they plan on taking the train all the way to New Orleans.

 At this point the action goes from the slightly implausible to the ridiculously implausible, forcing too great a suspension of disbelief. Even the sex scenes cannot save the story from that point on.