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Edge 1.The Loner: His given name was Josiah Hedges, an innocent-enough moniker. But one look at the cruel set of his mouth and the icy penetration of his blue eyes and anyone would recognize pure danger in man’s clothing. Now let’s find out how this man lost his name and became known as Edge. Read more
Publisher : (November 21, 2011)
Publication date : November 21, 2011
Language : English
File size : 512 KB
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I started reading Edge back in the early 80's when it came out in paperback. Life got in the way and I stopped for some reason. I just found the series on Kindle and am starting for the first book. For any of you who like westerns, try the first one and see if it does not grab you and make you want to read more of Edge....
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Reviewed in the United States on December 12, 2020 by John Winkler
I had read an Edge book years ago, but didn't remember it. Figured I'd start with the first. What a great read! Unapologetically raw, bloody, and fast paced. Edge was even more raw than I was comfortable with, but I couldn't put the book down. On to book two!
Reviewed in the United States on October 13, 2019 by Todd
George G. Gilman's Edge series remains, to this day, the single most influential series on my life. I first read The Loner when I was still a little tacker of about eleven, and it really exploded my mind. Since then, it has remained a benchmark for me of any book which attempts to have a hardcore anti-hero in it. The reason being Edge is unquestionably THE hardcore anti-hero of all time. No one else gets close. Not even for a second. George G. Gilman (also known as Terry Harknett for those lucky enough to know him), wrote a couple of series of westerns, including Steele and The Undertaker, but for this little rant of mine I will talk about Edge, because he's the guy who pretty much keeps me scouring ebay for the last few books I don't as yet own, or lost over the years thanks to heartless family members deciding to pretty much run off with the lot. But let's not discuss those vampires. Not in polite company. Edge began his journey in The Loner, where he arrives home from the Civil War to find his younger brother brutally murdered by his former army command. They're a bunch of ragtag homicidal maniacs, and unfortunately for them, Edge is a whole lot worse. What makes this character so absorbing is his humour. Mister Gilman used a rather (unforgiveable at times) intriguing little element to his novels in that the final line of every chapter is a gag. Not always the most witty, it never failed to get a groan from you. My alltime favourite of the series involved Edge meeting up with a scowling badguy whose name is Bruce Wayne. When the unfortunately named Mister Wayne is demanding satisfaction for some ill or another, Edge simply drawls, "Any time you wanna bat, man." It's just groan-worthy. But it was these references to popular culture within a western setting which remains, to my reading history, unique. Fantasy hasn't done it with such cheesy delight. Conan didn't go round making jokes about the Rolling Stones. I mean, it's utterly absurd when taken into account the absolute blackness of the humour in these books. They work to lighten the mood and to give Edge an almost timeless feel. He's almost made into some kind of avenging angel crossing the barriers of time, and I for one, always finish the story feeling he's just going to keep on going and going and going like an energizer bunny until the end of time. Mister Gilman's style is very clipped, very precise, and laconic. His violence is brutal, sometimes gruesome, but always so very visible without being pornographic. The style is also more suited to a mystery genre than a western genre, and this also adds to the overall appeal for me because it bucks inside the standard western genre and attempts to cover as many as possible in an attempt to appeal. He managed to create in Edge a distinctive anti-hero who is rigid in his own (im)moral code and is entirely the outsider in both law and society, yet cannot be accused of being an outlaw, or criminal. It's a superb creation and one I have always wished would be translated into fantasy as I find much of fantasy too preoccupied with farmboys and heroes prancing around like little ballerinas in a desperate attempt not to hurt a fly. Not that Mister David Gemmell would have agreed. His opinions of Mister Gilman's books were positively poisonous, and the quote I've read showed he didn't sit down and read one. Which is a shame. Unfortunately, the books ended at #61 (I have a proud and undamaged copy), and though they ended on a satisfying note, I am always wishing more could have been done for them. Mister Gilman (Mister Harknett) has written a few books set after these events, but they didn't satisfy me as much as they were set a little too far frward, with Edge an aging old codger - a form I didn't think he would ever take to very well. Colour me too much of a hack to lose sight of Edge as being that powerful halfbreed with only a few spots of grey. They are currently available via the Piccadilly Cowboys forum - a place where Mister Harknett (Mister Gilman) haunts with vigor. I've always wanted to say hello, but I'm far too star-struck. I don't know what to say. How do you say hello to someone you've admired more than any other writer? You just can't. After all, men were not meant to mingle with gods. God Harknett (when not being Mister Gilman - the "G" in George G. Gilman obviously stands for God, letting you know just who he is) wrote a lot of books. So many it boggles the mind for someone like myself who struggles to write the one. It's an amazing achievement when they're all so finely crafted. I have to say that, without any hesitation, these books are the only books I've read and reread so many times they have begun to fall apart. I will often read these between other books, as a kind of break. A cheerful break which reminds me that, always out there, is the one character I've loved above all others. And I will always feel he's out there, right now, drifting through the plains in search of someone to call him Mex, or to point a gun at him. And, with a one-liner poised on his lips, he'll shoot them. Just once. Edge doesn't fill `em full of lead. He likes to save his bullets. After all, he needs them for the next feller.
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Reviewed in the United States on March 30, 2012 by Lucas Thorn
Enjoyable easy read. Used to love these as a kid. But now they seem a bit cheesy with one liners you might get it an 80s action movie. Maybe that adds to the fun.
Reviewed in the United States on August 6, 2019 by G. Vaughan
I read 26 of the Edge series when I was 15 years old. It was the first book that captivated my imagination as a teen and now 56 yrs old have started reading the series again. I am finding that I am enjoying the series as much now as back then possibly more. Over the years I have seen many westerns and read some other books and I can only say Edge is fantastic. I would even be comfortable saying the Edge series was written well ahead of its time. Would love to see some one make a movie on this character.
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Reviewed in the United States on April 27, 2014 by Shaneb
You'd probably have to be a neanderthal to enjoy The Loner (Edge #1). Well if a neanderthal could read I mean. (What's that say about Hersom? I'm well into Edge #2 by the time I wrote this.) Having read almost exclusively sci-fi/fantasy for the last year/years, I've been suffering from major book burn-out. Out of desperation, I went back to one the first genre's I used to read, Westerns. And not the realistic historic fiction type of Western, but the testosterone fueled, ultra violent, sexist, spaghetti western paperback kind, that used to take about half the shelf space of the Men's Adventure section of the mall book store and several levels of the drug store spinner racks. The likes of which Clint Eastwood and director Sergio Leone revolutionized the western movies with. First published in 1972, its cheesy book from a cheesy decade. No politically correctness or high literary merit to be found here. Ain't it grand? Edge is a mean son-of-b**** that's really no better than the savage men he hunts down. Between the war, and the brutal murder of his brother - the last of Edge's family- all compassion has been burned out of him or it just unleashed his psychopathic tenancies. I'd never want to pass Edge in the street but he's a helluva good time to read about.
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Reviewed in the United States on January 3, 2017 by Greg
It's a good book to read. I think everyone will enjoy reading this book. Plenty of action throughout the book.
Reviewed in the United States on March 9, 2018 by Kindle Customer
I purchased this book because of a review I read about the Jess Williams series & this series was suggested as similar. Well, it is similar but Edge is just plain bad...really bad. He is no respecter of persons as the good, well kind of good, if they get in his way are treated just like the bad. This one was very violent but in reading about this writer they are supposed to get a little tamer as the series goes on. I hope so because I done a lot of skimming over the really gruesome parts. It begins with Captain Josiah Hedges arriving home in Iowa to find that his younger brother has been murdered. Since the culprits left a calling card, in the form of one of theirs being killed and left, Josiah knows who has committed this terrible deed. Five soldiers who served under him with the sixth one lying at his feet. He vows on his brother, Jamie's grave that he will make these five pay if it takes the rest of his life. His search ends in Arizona Territory. It's a typical vengeance western that is over too soon. If you enjoy a good western story you will like this writer if you can get past the descriptive violence.
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Reviewed in the United States on February 11, 2015 by mjkail