Close In for Showdown

From the moment they crossed the line and entered Beck County, Larry and Stretch were fated to risk their lives in a bloody battle with the lawless. Carew Canyon-a rich prize-was thrown open for a land-rush, and the West's toughest trouble-shooters were caught in a web of intrigue, forced to ride in the roughest, most grueling race known to man.Here are the Lone Star Hellions at their rough and ready best, bedeviling the forces of law and order, challenging the thieves and killers of a wild frontier and adding another hectic chapter to the story of their violent career. 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.