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O'Brien 13: Mean as Hell
FROM AMAZON KINDLE 21-TIME NUMBER ONE BEST-SELLING WESTERN WRITER BEN BRIDGES COMES YET MORE BULLET-SWIFT FRONTIER FURY! Eagle Creek was a nice, quiet little town … until the day the marshal lost his nerve. Then the gun-toughs and bully-boys moved in and suddenly the county was torn apart by murder, rustling … and the lynching of an innocent man. Folks said the Ginnanes – Big Vince and his five sons – were behind it all. They were bad men to cross, each one as tough as tacks and mean as hell. They’d fled Australia’s Northern Territory one step ahead of the law, and now they planned to take over Eagle Creek. Worse still, they didn’t care how rough they had to play to do it. But that didn’t matter a damn, for they were just about to meet their match in a blue-eyed soldier-for-hire by the name of Carter O’Brien.
101 pages, Kindle Edition
First published October 1, 2000
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Ben Bridges
124 books9 followersFor as long as I can remember, I always wanted to be a writer, but it was my Dad, Henry Whitehead, who really fostered my interest in the west. As a security man employed by a large chemical company, he often found himself working the nightshift by himself, and to pass the long, lonely hours he would hand-copy pictures from old Buffalo Bill Annuals and then fetch them home for me to colour in.
During the day, Dad also made up western stories and dictated them into our old reel-to-reel tape recorder, so that I could listen to them when I got home from school. He even added sound effects as he went along, wiggling his fingers in a bowl of water to give the impression of outlaws fording a shallow stream, or bursting balloons to simulate gunfire. So it's really no wonder that I eventually developed such an interest in the west.
As I grew older, I started reading just about every western I could lay my hands on. I began with J T Edson's Floating Outfit novels and eventually moved on to the Larry and Stretch westerns of Marshall Grover (a.k.a. Leonard F Meares). Along the way, I also started writing westerns of my own, the adventures of Clint Jones, Railroad Detective, being among the earliest.
During the day, Dad also made up western stories and dictated them into our old reel-to-reel tape recorder, so that I could listen to them when I got home from school. He even added sound effects as he went along, wiggling his fingers in a bowl of water to give the impression of outlaws fording a shallow stream, or bursting balloons to simulate gunfire. So it's really no wonder that I eventually developed such an interest in the west.
As I grew older, I started reading just about every western I could lay my hands on. I began with J T Edson's Floating Outfit novels and eventually moved on to the Larry and Stretch westerns of Marshall Grover (a.k.a. Leonard F Meares). Along the way, I also started writing westerns of my own, the adventures of Clint Jones, Railroad Detective, being among the earliest.
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