A review by sxk
Last of the Breed by Louis L'Amour

5.0

This book keeps the pace moving and while not delving too deeply into Joe Mac's background, apart from he's Native American and thus is basically a proto-MacGuyver when it comes to fighting, surviving, and living in the tundra, the book keeps you engaged. The characters and their motivations, especially among the Russians, are well established and add real depth to them and their parts in Joe Mack's story. Depth that Joe himself lacks in the book, but he's not an unstoppable terminator either. My one gripe with the book is how it ends. It does not end poorly, but in fact, leaves you wanting more and knowing you'll never get it as the sequel was never written. Can't hold that against L'Amour, but it's a regrettable state of events. I've read a few of the Jack Reacher novels and I found Joe Mack and his story of escaping the Soviet Union to be similar but superior to any Reacher novels I've yet read. That may owe to the time period or the narrator.