The Montana Deadlock

FRANK O'HARA had a treasure. Everybody knew about it but nobody could find it. Or Frank O'Hara.CHARITY CLAYTON knew about the treasure and was after it. She was after Joe Blade too-which he didn't mind.EDDIE PRENTICE was town marshal of Cheyenne. He wanted O'Hara, the treasure, and Charity Clayton. He also wanted Joe Blade so he could hang him.JIMMY WHITTLE was a pint-sized horse-thief with a giant ego. He'd kill to own a good horse. And frequently did. Which gave the clue to O'Hara's treasure.CLEOPATRA VIVALDI was beautiful, passionate, greedy for men and gold-and claimed to be Mrs. Frank O'Hara. Only Frank didn't know about it.They were living out a violent human drama against the massive backdrop of the West. And with a stunning indifference to death, they were out to break the Montana Deadlock. Peter Christopher Watts was born in London, England in 1919 and died on Nov. 30, 1983. He was educated in art schools in England, then served with the British Amy in Burma from 1940 to 1946.Peter Watts, the author of more than 150 novels, is better known by his pen names of "Matt Chisholm" and "Cy James". He published his first western novel under the Matt Chisholm name in 1958 (Halfbreed). He began writing the "McAllister" series in 1963 with The Hard Men, and that series ran to 35 novels. He followed that up with the "Storm" series. And used the Cy James name for his "Spur" series.Under his own name, Peter Watts wrote Out of Yesterday, The Long Night Through, and Scream and Shout. He wrote both fiction and nonfiction books, including the very useful nonfiction reference work, A Dictionary of the Old West (Knopf, 1977). The adventures of JOE BLADE-tough, tender and temperamental. Slow to anger, fast with a gun and no slouch with women. A man tempered by the West, dangerous living and a perpetual gamble with death.From the author who has given us the Storm Family Cattlemen Saga, Sam Spur and McAllister.