The old man and his lovely niece Hope were in big trouble. The local land baron, bully-boy Aldo Latimer, wanted their ranch – at any cost.
But what made the old Clayton place worth so much to him? Why was he willing to try every dirty trick in the book to get it?
All Dick and Hope Clayton knew was that they needed protection … and when Buck Halliday rode in, they figured they’d found it.
Halliday wasn’t looking for gun-work right then, but he liked the old man, and there was something about Hope that got under his skin and made him think it was time to settle down. So he signed on.
But the stakes were so high that soon, Halliday wasn’t sure who he could really trust – not old Dick, not Hope … and certainly not his arch rival, Aldo Latimer’s hired gun, Rees Mann.
Adam Brady was one of many pseudonyms used by prolific Australian writer Desmond Robert Dunn (6 November 1929-5 May 2003). In addition to four crime novels published under his own name, Des was a tireless western writer whose career spanned more than fifty years and well in excess of 400 oaters. These quick-moving, vivid and always compelling stories appeared under such pen-names as Shad Denver, Gunn Halliday, Sheldon B. Cole, Brett Iverson, Matt Cregan, Walt Renwick and Morgan Culp. He is also said to have written a number of the ever-popular Larry Kent P.I. novels, but at this late date author attribution is almost impossible. He married and divorced twice, and had three children. He died at the age of 73 in Brisbane, Queensland.
Genre: Western
But what made the old Clayton place worth so much to him? Why was he willing to try every dirty trick in the book to get it?
All Dick and Hope Clayton knew was that they needed protection … and when Buck Halliday rode in, they figured they’d found it.
Halliday wasn’t looking for gun-work right then, but he liked the old man, and there was something about Hope that got under his skin and made him think it was time to settle down. So he signed on.
But the stakes were so high that soon, Halliday wasn’t sure who he could really trust – not old Dick, not Hope … and certainly not his arch rival, Aldo Latimer’s hired gun, Rees Mann.
Adam Brady was one of many pseudonyms used by prolific Australian writer Desmond Robert Dunn (6 November 1929-5 May 2003). In addition to four crime novels published under his own name, Des was a tireless western writer whose career spanned more than fifty years and well in excess of 400 oaters. These quick-moving, vivid and always compelling stories appeared under such pen-names as Shad Denver, Gunn Halliday, Sheldon B. Cole, Brett Iverson, Matt Cregan, Walt Renwick and Morgan Culp. He is also said to have written a number of the ever-popular Larry Kent P.I. novels, but at this late date author attribution is almost impossible. He married and divorced twice, and had three children. He died at the age of 73 in Brisbane, Queensland.
Genre: Western
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