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A COFFIN FOR THE REAPER
Jonathan Grimm had been a bounty hunter for far too long. His joints were creaking and his reflexes were slowing. He needed one big one, and then he could retire. It looked like he could do it, too, when he learned that a bunch of hardcases had broken out of Austen jail. He weighed it up. If he roped them in and recovered the loot, the bounties would total over ten thousand.
But before he could pocket the money he needed to do a heap of riding, all the way to California. A long haul for his ancient limbs, and ahead the daunting prospect of fronting up to six trail-hardened sonsofbitches.
However, as one by one his victims ended up in Boot Hill, it never occurred to Jonathan Grimm, the no-nonsense killing machine known to history as the Reaper, that this might be his last ride.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Leaving school early with few qualifications, Bryan Holmes went to work in a factory and then, in his own words, "got cheesed off, jacked it all in and went to university." Upon graduating he went to work teaching economics in a College of Advanced Technology and stayed in the profession for the rest of his working career. Bryan started writing seriously in the 1950s, but it was only in the mid-1970s that he turned to the western. "The odd thing is I'd never read a western until I'd written my first. Of course, I've read many since -- either to see how others do it or to read the books of writer-friends -- but I originally fell into the genre quite by accident." After The Avenging Four was accepted for publication, Bryan never looked back. In addition to a steady stream of accomplished westerns, he also began to sell short horror, crime and SF stories in the fields of science fiction, "and hearing actors speak my lines on the BBC, no less." Although poor health has now effectively ended Bryan's writing career, we are pleased to be reissuing two of his best-loved series -- The Reaper and Shatterhand -- in digital editions.
Genre: Western
A COFFIN FOR THE REAPER
Jonathan Grimm had been a bounty hunter for far too long. His joints were creaking and his reflexes were slowing. He needed one big one, and then he could retire. It looked like he could do it, too, when he learned that a bunch of hardcases had broken out of Austen jail. He weighed it up. If he roped them in and recovered the loot, the bounties would total over ten thousand.
But before he could pocket the money he needed to do a heap of riding, all the way to California. A long haul for his ancient limbs, and ahead the daunting prospect of fronting up to six trail-hardened sonsofbitches.
However, as one by one his victims ended up in Boot Hill, it never occurred to Jonathan Grimm, the no-nonsense killing machine known to history as the Reaper, that this might be his last ride.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Leaving school early with few qualifications, Bryan Holmes went to work in a factory and then, in his own words, "got cheesed off, jacked it all in and went to university." Upon graduating he went to work teaching economics in a College of Advanced Technology and stayed in the profession for the rest of his working career. Bryan started writing seriously in the 1950s, but it was only in the mid-1970s that he turned to the western. "The odd thing is I'd never read a western until I'd written my first. Of course, I've read many since -- either to see how others do it or to read the books of writer-friends -- but I originally fell into the genre quite by accident." After The Avenging Four was accepted for publication, Bryan never looked back. In addition to a steady stream of accomplished westerns, he also began to sell short horror, crime and SF stories in the fields of science fiction, "and hearing actors speak my lines on the BBC, no less." Although poor health has now effectively ended Bryan's writing career, we are pleased to be reissuing two of his best-loved series -- The Reaper and Shatterhand -- in digital editions.
Genre: Western
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