When Ben Wyatt and his gang held up the bank in Adobe, Arizona, Wyatt was captured before they could make good their escape. Sheriff Willard Beal and a deputy had been gunned down in the raid and the only man left to guard the brutal bank robber was the one remaining deputy, young Rick Lander. Judge Rice was soon summoned and he in turned asked Jason Brand, an ex-US Marshal, to take up the silver star. With Wyatt locked in the cells and his men close by, Brand was the only man who could get Adobe out of real trouble ... (A Jason Brand Western #2) Neil Hunter is, in fact, the prolific Lancashire-born writer Michael R. Linaker. As Neil Hunter, Mike wrote two classic western series, BODIE THE STALKER and JASON BRAND. Under the name Richard Wyler he produced four stand-alone westerns, INCIDENT AT BUTLER'S STATION, THE SAVAGE JOURNEY, BRIGHAM'S WAY and TRAVIS. The "maverick lawman" theme surfaces in the Jason Brand series, written as "Neil Hunter" and originally published in Norway by Morgan Kane publisher Bladkompaniet. Brand is a former US Marshal turned gun-for-hire, and the series contains several of Hunter's most intriguing plots, such as in Devil's Gold where -- in its original form -- a trail of Confederate gold leads Brand to Jamaica, where he locks horns with a Chinese renegade and teams up with a British secret agent!
