Decent book. It's what you would expect out of a pulp book. Easy to get through, okay story, cookie-cutter characters. Nothing explosive, thought provoking, or out of the ordinary imaginative. It's what it is.

Kit and his fellow trapper friends are on their way to the annual summer rendezvous, where mountain men throughout the frontier trade items and recieve money for the many animal pelts they have collected throughout the past year. Blackfoot Indians have eyes for this large bounty of animal pelts and decide to take them. They do, .... Go git 'em, Kit!

This is the first book I've read from Doug Hawkins and the Kit Carson series. I'd have to read one or two more to get a good feel of him, but judging from this book, the Kit Carson series appears ho-hum. Kit Carson, the way Hawkins writes his character, doesn't stand out. The most interesting character in this book was a loner mountain man named Petey. He's a slightly touched, contentious trapper whose best friend is a grizzly bear. He has spent so much time alone, trapping and fending for himself, people are an aggravation to him. I liked what Hawkins did with his character.

In any case, it's a quick read. You can pick the book up cheap and spend a day lost in a light adventure. Better than spending the day lost in TV's fast food fare.

What to say? The plot could work, but there are too many side plots. What on earth is Trudy doing in there? I suppose showing us what a horrible guy LeClarc is, but she doesn't really do much for the plot in my opinion. In both this and "Missing Presumed Dead," by Hawkins, there are too many internal maunderings/ruminations going on that are nearly impossible to distinguish from the conversations that they interrupt.

But worst, for me, is the absolute abuse of the English language that appears in both books by Mr. Hawkins. Missed capitalization (not capitalizing sentences that are supposed to have been written in all caps), missed lower case (leaving a sentence in all caps that should have been in lower case), poor spelling (train fair, for the money that one uses to pay for the train), misapplied apostrophes, and just plain bad English! And this, in a book in which several times journalists were criticized for their use of the language.

Sorry, but for me that detracts from a book, and it was detracting enough to keep me from enjoying the book.

While this book contains some ideas on a handful of AS00 API's, none are very useful in programming. The example code is sometimes incomplete and very often error filled. This would be good for an sysadmin, but not for programmers.

The author can sincerely believe whatever she wants, but the fact is that scientific research has repeatedly discredited the notion that LSD causes chromosomal damage. There is no real scientific evidence to support that LSD users themselves experience any permanent physiological damage that could cause flashbacks (and quite a bit of evidence AGAINST this happening), and the notion that flashbacks can be inherited is laughable.

If you buy this book, buy it for its kitsch value. Librarians: file this one under "Idiots."

What a complete and total compilation of ignorance. To even assume lsd can cause flashbacks in newborns because of chromosome damage is obsurd. These people have no understanding of science or of trymtamines. This book is conclusive of the scare tactics and propaganda that plagues this country.