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Snake Bend
Trooper Kim Hammond of the Texas Rangers is given an run the notorious outlaw Mesquite Milo out of town, and bring him in — dead or alive.
Milo is wanted for robbery and murder across Texas and several other States as well. All Kim has to go on is that Milo had last been seen in Snake Bend, a little town just north of the Sonora country. The area held good terrain for a man of his kind, with plenty of escape routes across the that was why it was thought there wouldn’t be any sense in sending a crowd down to root him out.
It's a dangerous assignment—as Hammond soon finds out when he's ambushed by a Mexican sniper before he's even reached Snake Bend. Kim succeeds in killing his attacker, and on examining his pockets, he finds a “A Ranger will be coming through Dead Gulch. He should pass sometime tomorrow. See that he doesn’t get through.”
“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 Coyotes of the Gap, Persecution Trail and Guilty Colts .
Milo is wanted for robbery and murder across Texas and several other States as well. All Kim has to go on is that Milo had last been seen in Snake Bend, a little town just north of the Sonora country. The area held good terrain for a man of his kind, with plenty of escape routes across the that was why it was thought there wouldn’t be any sense in sending a crowd down to root him out.
It's a dangerous assignment—as Hammond soon finds out when he's ambushed by a Mexican sniper before he's even reached Snake Bend. Kim succeeds in killing his attacker, and on examining his pockets, he finds a “A Ranger will be coming through Dead Gulch. He should pass sometime tomorrow. See that he doesn’t get through.”
“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 Coyotes of the Gap, Persecution Trail and Guilty Colts .
129 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 1, 2019
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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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