RECKLESS COWBOY JUMPS THE MOON

Radio Record, 5 August 1938, Page 30

RECKLESS COWBOY JUMPS THE MOON

ON the dust cover of Johnston McCulley’s latest novel, "Reckless Range" is a drawing of a cowboy on a_ white horse

jumping over the moon and a couple of mountains. This is a fair indication of the substance of this Wild West tale into which has been crammed enough incident for three stories and enough shooting for a halfscore of G-men, . Apart from the overcrowding of action, however, the book follows Western traditions fairly successfully and manages to maintain interest, despite the obvious invulnerability of the rough-riding hero who goes in pursuit of outlaws to clear his own and his father’s: name. -It is doubtful ‘how much longer such woolly yarns will continne to sell ‘profitably, for. .the writers generally ignore completely the art of characterisation, Still,.in the meantime they are much more invigorating reading of the lighter sort than the majority of earnestly inept "psychological" novels which are fashionable just now. ‘Reckless Range," by Johnston MeCulley (Hutchinson, London). Our copy from the publishers.