The 20th novel, A Sinister Splendor: A Mexican War Novel (Forge, $29.99), by three-time Western Writers of America Spur Award-winner Mike Blakely is an instant classic and the best novelization of the oft-overlooked conflict since Jeff Shaara’s Gone for Soldiers (Ballantine, 2000). Well-organized, tightly written and smartly paced, the book keeps


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