Haunted by a sharp-shooting ghost, deserted Fortuna offered no warm welcome to the Lone Star Hellions and their new allies-three desperate men and four frightened women left to die in the arid heart of the Big Amarillo.Also in need of shelter were the infamous Cleave Elrigg and his trigger-happy cohorts-six escapees from the Pima Valley Prison, who were determined never to be recaptured.The climax, an explosion of violence and mayhem, echoed to every corner of the ghost town, with the West's toughest trouble-shooters well to the fore of the fray. Leonard Frank Meares 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". Leonard Frank Meares 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", "Marshalll Grover" "Ward Brennan" and "Glenn Murrell". Among his most famous characters were "Larry & Stretch", Larry Valentine and Stretch Emerson. In the Nordic countries they were known as "Bill & Ben". He introduced Larry and Stretch in Drift!, his tenth books for Cleveland.
