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Too High A Price

(2020)
(The third book in the Savage series)
A Novella by

 
 
Slowly he saw the girlish mischief fade from her face to be replaced by something infinitely deeper and stronger. He set his empty glass aside, not taking his eyes off her. She did likewise. They embraced, and at first they kissed gently and hesitantly. But then an urgency came into it. She kissed him eagerly, hungrily, and her hands moved over his body. It had taken a long time with this angel-faced gift ... but suddenly Savage felt that old familiar feeling again.
His hands were on her shoulders. She unbuttoned the bodice of her gown. He slipped the dress off her shoulders and it slithered to the floor. Her breasts were like marble - firm, tip-tilted and delicately veined. A soft rustle of cloth, a quick intake of breath and she stood naked before him. Her loveliness seemed to dazzle him. He barely remembered stripping off his shirt while she unbuckled his heavy gunrig. His naked back gleamed like beaten bronze in the dim light as he carried her to the bed. Her mouth took his hungrily and she drew him down with her, into Paradise - or as close as any hard-nosed drifter was likely to get on this earth.

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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