You could almost hear Clint Eastwood’s voice. Where The Coilhunter Chronicles shines is the omniscient narrator. Action continues nearly non-stop, with gunfight after gunfight. The pace is as breakneck as that summary: each chapter goes by fast, ending with cliffhangers that segue smoothly into the next. Possible love interest, a potential new family, and a promising family pet. In each story, he forms tentative alliances and meets a And in book three, Dustrunner, he is framed for massacringĪ native tribe. He rescues two children and confronts a steampunk version of Star Trek’s Borg. Gallery of wanted criminals, but also gives him a clue as to the identity of Starts as a regular job, which not only introduces us to a colorful rogues’

Persona kept me from connecting deeply with him, but his underlying compassion All he is missing is a Bruce Wayne alter ego. More-or-less a loner, too afraid to form meaningful relationships because of Something of a superhero with his tools, quick triggerįinger, and accuracy, he has become the best bounty hunter in the North. Steampunk gadgets, not only to help him breathe, but also to hunt downĬriminals-all from out of his own version of the Bat Cave. Where he once made children’s toys, he now makes To relate him to Deadpool in my original tagline, I decided Batman was more a Once an engineer, the murder of his family and mutilation of hisīody transformed him into a bounty hunter out for justice. Which is how the main character, Nox, gets his nickname: TheĬoilhunter. Worthless unless it can somehow shade you from the sun or collect water, while Saloons, houses of ill-repute, steampunk-vehicles,Īnd Native Peoples help flesh out the setting. Where an Iron Empire has conquered East, South, and West, but leaving the Northįor rugged individualists. It’s a steampunk Wild West setting in a secondary world, The audiobook for Dean Wilson’s Coilhunter Trilogy. Offer me the Western forįree, however, and my Chinese heritage takes over.

They influenced, I’ll take sake over bourbon any day. Give me a choice between Spaghetti Westerns and the Japanese Chanbara genre It might as well be the bedrock of American foreignĭespite my American nationality, it’s never been my thing. I am pretty sure that everyone knows Americans romanticize the Wild West: theįreewheeling setting, the gunslinger vigilante who stands up to the bad guys Steampunk Batman meets A Fistful of Dollars (and later, the Borg).ĭespite Fantasy-Faction originally being a British website,

Coilhunter by Dean F. Wilson