Hired by a vengeance-crazed cattleman, they came to Arizona to destroy the most respected citizen of Reavis County; Ethan Probert would be granted no mercy. Probert, his sons and daughter were unaware of the true identity of the two hired hands of Circle 7, who happened to be the West's toughest trouble-shooters. When the merchants of terror struck, Larry and Stretch retaliated - and then some.
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".