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| Book Title | Smoke Jensen: The Beginning |
| Series | Smoke Jensen |
| Genre | Western |
| Author | William W. Johnstone with J.A. Johnstone |
| Publisher | Pinnacle Books |
| Published | 2015 |
| Format | Mass Market Paperback |
| Condition | Good |
| Condition Notes | Mass-market paperback in Good condition with noticeable reading and shelf wear. The front cover has rubbing, scratches, several vertical creases along the left side, edge and corner wear, and a large original retail price sticker across the upper portion of the cover. There is additional scuffing along the bottom edge and spine. Despite the wear, the cover remains intact, the artwork retains strong color, and all important title information is readable. A solid reading or series copy. |
| Condition | Good |
Before he became the legendary gunfighter known as Smoke Jensen, he was Kirby Jensen, the youngest child of a struggling family on a ranch in southwestern Missouri.
As the Civil War begins in 1861, Kirby’s father and brother leave to fight, and the violence sweeping across Missouri transforms the boy’s life. War, border raids, family tragedy, and frontier justice force Kirby to grow up quickly. His journey gradually takes him from an ordinary frontier childhood toward the hard, dangerous life that will forge the man eventually known throughout the West as Smoke Jensen.
Blending fictional adventure with historical events, The Beginning finally tells the origin story behind one of William W. Johnstone’s best-known Western heroes.
EugeneBookStore Summary
For anyone interested in Smoke Jensen, this is the ideal place to start. Rather than dropping readers into another adventure after Smoke has already become a legendary gunfighter, The Beginning goes back to Kirby Jensen’s youth and explains how war, loss, violence, and the frontier shaped him.
It is especially appealing for readers who enjoy long-running Western sagas because it provides the background behind a character who appears throughout Johnstone’s extensive Western universe. There is plenty of traditional frontier action, but the origin-story element gives this volume more significance than a routine installment.
Collector Notes
This 2015 Pinnacle edition is primarily a reader and series-collection title rather than a scarce collectible, but its position as the origin story of Smoke Jensen gives it particularly good shelf appeal for Johnstone fans. Current bookseller listings identify this ISBN as the first volume in the Smoke Jensen: A Novel of the West sequence. Your copy has considerable cosmetic wear and the large retail sticker is particularly noticeable, so it should not receive a premium collector price. Still, collectors and readers building a Smoke Jensen collection often want this title because it provides the character’s chronological beginning.
