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The Ysabel Kid
- A Floating Outfit Western, Book 1
- Narrated by: Chaz Allen
- Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
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Summary
The first book of the Floating Outfit series, in which three core members of the of outfit meet for the first time, directly following the Dusty Fog Civil War series.
His father was Sam Ysabel, a wild Irish Kentuckian who’d come to Texas in the early days and rode as a scout to Jim Bowie. His mother was the daughter of Chief Longwalker and his French Creole squaw. That dangerous mixture of bloods produced a son who inherited the sighting eye of an eagle from the sure-shooting, rifle-toting Kentuckian stock. From the French Creole side he got a love of cold steel and the inborn knack of handling a knife. And from his Comanche grandfather he got his horse savvy and ability to read signs of where a buck Apache might falter.
His full name was Loncey Dalton Ysabel. Most men knew him as…the Ysabel Kid.
About the Author
J.T. Edson was a former British Army dog handler who wrote more than 130 Western novels, accounting for some 27 million sales in paperback. Edson’s works - produced on a word processor in an Edwardian semi at Melton Mowbray - contain clear, crisp action in the traditions of B-movies and Western television series. What they lack in psychological depth is made up for by at least 12 good fights per volume. Each portrays a vivid, idealized “West that never was”, at a pace that rarely slackens.
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- Ms Sandra E Broadley
- 20-07-22
Guns and men
Loved the story, well laid out with history clear and concise. Well read.😆.more like this well worth reading.
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- Janette
- 10-07-22
Dreadful Narrator put me off
I was delighted to see JT Edson books on Audible at last. Being blind I remember my father reading some books to me about the Floating outfit.
I was bitterly disappointed by the quality of the Narration and it spoiled the whole book for me. I also disliked how the book had been edited beyond recognition of its original book publication. I have the printed books but due to being blind cannot read them.
I shall be returning the book as it was a waste of a credit. Chaz Allen is a dreadful reader, who read with many hesitations and with stops and starts along the way as if he had never read the book prior to recording. I noticed the second book I purchased has the same narrator so it will also be returned unread. Surely the quality of readers for audible books should be of better quality? I will be trying to discover other audio books by JT Edson elsewhere.
So disappointed.
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- Ray
- 10-04-24
great story
Loved the series read them all over the years !!! Loved the audio book can't wait for the next.
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- Alan
- 16-02-22
Ysabel Kid
At long last, a JT Edson book on audible, let's hope this is the first of many
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- Mr. T. Walters
- 11-02-22
Good Western series
This is hopefully the start of a great series of Audio-books. By no means excellent, but still a thoroughly engaging novel.
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- Homebird
- 29-08-22
Great story, appalling performance.
It’s only because I enjoy these stories so much I’ll probably buy some more of them.
The performance however is really dreadful, strange pauses and a very laboured, almost painful reading of the book.
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- S A Bainbridge
- 18-04-22
Old favourite - massacred! Disappointed !
I have fond memories of JT Edson westerns as a young person, so was very excited to finally see one on audible.
Unfortunately, firstly, this is a PC version with certain names changed to suit today's PC readers (Ysabel kids horse has name changed to "Thunder")! While this doesn't particularly affect this story, I think it's totally unnecessary and in some of the stories will affect any 'authenticity' because people back then were definitely NOT PC!
My main reason for scoring so low was the absolutely appalling narrator! I struggled to continue listening because it was so bad! I have no idea who the guy is , but he goes from sounding like he's struggling to read and form a sentence, to sounding amazed at what he's just read. He pauses in the middle of some sentences as though the sentence is finished, but rushes on so quickly at other points that sentences run into each other and don't really make sense!
The reading of the book is extremely stilted and hard to listen to.
I am so disappointed as I'd looked forward to listening to it so much. I will not be wasting any future credits on any more JT Edson books that may be added to the library if the same narrator is used! I wish I had just returned it rather than persevering with it.
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