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Mr. Majestyk

The Run Down.

Vincent Majestyk saw too much death in the jungles of Southeast Asia. All he wants to do now is farm his melons and forget. But peace can be an elusive commodity, even in the Arizona hinterlands—and especially when the local mob is calling all the shots. And one quiet, proud man's refusal to be strong-armed by a powerful hood is about to start a violent chain reaction that will leave Mr. Majestyk ruined, in shackles, and without a friend in the world—except for one tough and beautiful woman. But his tormentors never realized something about their mark: this is not his first war. Vince Majestyk knows more than they'll ever know about survival . . . and everything about revenge.

Published: 1974

Publisher: Dell

Genres: Crime , Western

Adaptation: Film (1974)

Los Angeles Times

Splendid . . . entirely engrossing.

— Los Angeles Times

He Didn't Want To Be A Hero… Until The Day They Pushed Him Too Far

Vincent Majestyk

Majestyk stepped into him as he brought the shotgun up, grabbing the barrel with his left hand, and drove his right hand hard into Bobby Kopas's face, getting some nose and mouth, staying with him as Kopas went back against the car door, and slammed the fist into him again, getting his sunglasses this time, wiping them from his face, and pulling the shotgun out of his hands as Kopas twisted and his head and shoulders fell into the window opening.

Mr. Majestyk

Adapted for film in 1974
Starring Charles Bronson — Directed by Richard Fleischer
Screenplay by Elmore Leonard