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Midwest Book Review
Desert Sunshine by Reece Daniel


188 pages at 19.95 paperback

PublishAmerica

Desert Sunshine was an unanticipated gift where reading experiences are concerned. Reece Daniel tells this story almost tenderly, with a palpable respect for life and earth. Ed Adair is a retired police chief who returns to his boyhood home in Arizona. Raised on the reservation by his half Apache grandmother, Ed has nursed ill feelings all his life towards his mixed race heritage. His ice blue eyes earned him the nickname Blue Eyes, a name he considered taunting in childhood and finds derogatory as a man. It is clear from the outset that Ed may have the looks of a white man, but his spirit is Apache, through and through. When Ed is dry gulched and left near death by a long distance shooter, modern technology can do little to save him. Ed Adair the modern law officer lays comatose and dying in the present, while the Arizona Territory Ranger known as Blue Eyes wakes up in 1882. Arizona of the 1880s is far different from the one Ed knew in the 21st century. Primeval White Mountain forests still stand. Gone are the logged out rutted remnants Ed remembers from the future. Sweet nature scents blow in on desert winds to stir Ed's native spirit. Life is simple, full of wonder. Enemies are not disguised as friends in Arizona's past, and evil presents itself quite clearly. Men live and die by the gun without reprisal in the Arizona Territory. Ed fits right in, packing his .45 Colt Peacemaker and a high powered Sharps rifle. His vision quest as Blue Eyes introduces Ed to his Apache progenitors and ties past to future in unexpected and surrealistic ways. What makes Desert Sunshine work is the tender and poignant way this author crafts his tale. Yes, the story features a very masculine protagonist and macho action. Men are men and women are women and both are well aware of the difference in the best John Wayne and Gary Cooper style. But it is the heart and thoughts of the 1880s Blue Eyes, the half breed Apache finding truth and love that made this book stand out for me.

Review by Laurel Johnson for Midwest Book Review

Burton Gilliam Review
Burton "Bubba" Gilliam star of Blazing Saddles, Paper Moon, Dream West, Hearts of the West and many, many more movies kindly read and reviewed Desert Sunshine. This is what he had to say.



Hi Reece,

It has taken me three different starts but I finally finished your great story of the old West with its' lawmakers, lawbreakers and lawmen intertwined with modern day crimefighting. And then on into the future. I went out of town a couple of times for three days each and when I came home I had to start over from page one . Your description of each of the characters was such that I could actually see them in my minds eye. It's as much a love story as it is a tale of right and wrong. But the thing that really stands out (and I don't nearly understand it) is the tie, comparison, differences between Indian spiritualism and Christianity. We have a lot to talk about! Give me a holler when you have time and we'll get together for a long lunch and we can discuss your first piece of work... and where you go from here.

Bubba