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The Living Legend
(2020)(The ninth book in the Benedict and Brazos series)
A novel by E Jefferson Clay
The town of Glory was anything but glorious. It was actually a town filled with fear—fear of the wild Yellow House River bunch, and an outlaw gang led by Ben Hollister, a bad man they called the Living Legend for his gun-speed.
Duke Benedict and Hank Brazos had no intention of buying into Glory’s troubles. All they wanted was a lead on Bo Rangle, the man they were hunting.
But then a good man was shot dead by the Yellow House boys.
That’s when Benedict pinned on the town marshal’s badge and together he and Brazos set about restoring law and order.
With the Yellow House gang dealt with, there was still the matter of Ben Hollister, and a schemer in the shadows saw to it that he and Benedict would eventually clash.
It was a showdown Benedict would have done anything to avoid. Because he and Holliday had once been friends. And it was the Living Legend who’d taught him everything he knew about guns, and how to use them.
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
Duke Benedict and Hank Brazos had no intention of buying into Glory’s troubles. All they wanted was a lead on Bo Rangle, the man they were hunting.
But then a good man was shot dead by the Yellow House boys.
That’s when Benedict pinned on the town marshal’s badge and together he and Brazos set about restoring law and order.
With the Yellow House gang dealt with, there was still the matter of Ben Hollister, and a schemer in the shadows saw to it that he and Benedict would eventually clash.
It was a showdown Benedict would have done anything to avoid. Because he and Holliday had once been friends. And it was the Living Legend who’d taught him everything he knew about guns, and how to use them.
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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