The Setting
The place: America. The time: the future. Atom bombs have decimated some of the big cities; conventional weaponry has battered the rest. In a landscape of jagged ruin and rubble, marauding biker gangs and neofascists battle for power, defenseless survivors are sold into slavery, and government by the people is but a faded memory. Yet within this violent chaos, one ex-Green Beret has had the foresight to place his wife and family in a special mountain hideaway to protect them from the war he knew would come. Schooled in the hardened ideals of his father, and eager to face the outside world, the son of Major Clayton Stone now emerges from his shelter-while a dangerous new America awaits...(taken from the book)
My Thoughts
Written in the mid 80's, this story fell off the rails pretty quick for me. While I sensed the author was trying his best to build up the back story of the father and son relationship, there was just too much of it at the beginning and the whole thing took on a very slow, drawn out pace. I feel as though the history would have been better served in smatterings throughout the book or even in future volumes in the series.
Once the story shifts into present day, there is a lengthy description of a Native American ritual that is meant to demonstrate the son's new awakening to the world around him. Unfortunately the book is half over before we get to that point and, for me, things never improved from there.
Final score: 4 out of 10
- Title: The Last Ranger
- Author: Carig Sargent
- Publisher: Popular Library (May 1, 1986)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0445202351
- Available at Amazon.com
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