Face the Gun

THE OLD SHERIFF HAD TO QUIT . . . THREE MEN HUNGERED TO INHERIT THE TIN STAR.That was how it began for Larry and Stretch, the drifting free-swinging trouble-shooters from the Lone Star State. Bayone County was about to elect a new sheriff, and the Texans had their own ideas as to who most deserved the coveted badge.To steal the horses of the Lone Star Hellions was to invite disaster. Larry and Stretch had a personal score to settle with the obsessed Wes Howland, a vengeance-hungry killer who kidnapped a cattle baron's daughter and held her for ransom.The fists fly, the guns roar, and Larry and Stretch are at it again, sharing the dangers that confront the deputy destined to become a tin star target. 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.