"The law said Chad Keehoe had paid his debt to society. Released from the Nebraska penitentiary after twelve years, the old stage-robber travelled back to his hometown and a mixed welcome. When the Lone Star Hellions befriended the ex-convict, they were made to realize his days were numbered. Somewhere in the violent past lay the answer to the question bedevilling Larry Valentine. Somebody wanted Keehoe Dead. Who? And why?
Leonard Frank Meares (13 February 1921 – 4 February 1993) was an Australian writer of western fiction. He wrote over 700 Westerns for the Australian paperback publishers Cleveland and Horwitz using the pseudonym "Marshall McCoy", "Marshall Grover", "Ward Brennan" and "Glenn Murrell".
Among his most famous characters were "Larry & Stretch", Larry Valentine and Stretch Emerson. In the United States (Bantam Books) they they were known as "Larry & Streak" (Larry Vance & Streak Everett)" and the in the Nordic countries they were known as "Bill & Ben".