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The Dark Brotherhood

(2021)
(The seventh book in the Savage series)
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They passed a solitary tree that had witnessed a hundred years of prairie history. Brendan stared back at it. Once they had hanged a man there, a bounty hunter who tried to poison their coffee after posing as a miner down on his luck. The Donovans hated lawmen, solid citizens, rich people and anybody who didn’t speak with an Irish accent, but most of all they hated bounty hunters . . . especially the tough ones.
If nothing else, Clint Savage had shown he was tough enough.

E. Jefferson Clay was just one of many pseudonyms used by New South Wales-born Paul Wheelahan (1930-2018). Starting off as a comic-book writer/illustrator, Paul created The Panther and The Raven before moving on to a long and distinguished career as a western writer. Under the names Emerson Dodge, Brett McKinley, E. Jefferson Clay, Ben Jefferson and others, he penned more than 800 westerns and could, at his height, turn out a full-length western in just four days.
The son of a mounted policeman, Paul initially worked as a powder monkey on the Oaky River Dam project. By 1955, however, he was drawing Davy Crockett—Frontier Scout. In 1963 he began his long association with Australian publisher Cleveland Pty. Co. Ltd. As prolific as he was as a western writer, however, he also managed to write for TV, creating shows like Runaways and contributing scripts to perennial favorites like A Country Practice. At the time of his death, in December 2018, he was writing his autobiography, Never Ride Back … which was also the title of his very first western.


Genre: Western

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