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Gun-Hung Gallant
Vengeance is the best medicine...
Wanted for a murder he hasn't committed, Chappel flees the goldfields of Colorado for the sanctuary of his own Arizona hills.
There, he learns from sheriff Leggy Ormond that his family has been wiped out by the hated Quincy Gang. Leggy tells him everything - except the whereabouts of the killers.
From that moment, vengeance becomes Chappell's life work, and with the implacable determination of a ruthless man, he sets about tracking down the killers. With the trail leading to Fayette Quincey, a tempestuous and cruel beauty, his thinking starts to become hazy.
Will he emerge victorious?
“A classic of the genre” - Tom Casey, bestselling author of Trade Off
Denis Hughes (1917-2008) was a prolific writer who wrote a large number of science fiction and western novels. He wrote under a number of pseudonyms, including Ken Kester, and his many western adventures include The Crooked Desert, Persecution Trail and Guilty Colts .
Wanted for a murder he hasn't committed, Chappel flees the goldfields of Colorado for the sanctuary of his own Arizona hills.
There, he learns from sheriff Leggy Ormond that his family has been wiped out by the hated Quincy Gang. Leggy tells him everything - except the whereabouts of the killers.
From that moment, vengeance becomes Chappell's life work, and with the implacable determination of a ruthless man, he sets about tracking down the killers. With the trail leading to Fayette Quincey, a tempestuous and cruel beauty, his thinking starts to become hazy.
Will he emerge victorious?
“A classic of the genre” - Tom Casey, bestselling author of Trade Off
Denis Hughes (1917-2008) was a prolific writer who wrote a large number of science fiction and western novels. He wrote under a number of pseudonyms, including Ken Kester, and his many western adventures include The Crooked Desert, Persecution Trail and Guilty Colts .
160 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 23, 2018
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Denis Hughes
96 books3 followersDenis Talbot Hughes (1917-2008) was born in London and was the son of Victorian artist Talbot Hughes. He trained as an Air Observation Pilot in WWII, but a serious crash prematurely ended his flying career. His first book, Fury Drives By Night, was published in 1948; over 80 more titles followed, published under numerous contractual pseudonyms. In addition to science fiction, he also published westerns and adventure novels. This prolific period ended when his main publisher collapsed in 1954.
From 1954, until his retirement in the 1980s, he wrote short stories for DC Thomson, specialising in WWII adventures for boys' papers including Victor, Hotspur, Warlord and Wizard.
From 1954, until his retirement in the 1980s, he wrote short stories for DC Thomson, specialising in WWII adventures for boys' papers including Victor, Hotspur, Warlord and Wizard.
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