Gunslinger 01, page 14
part #1 of Gunslinger Series
Laurence James. In 1970 Laurence James became an editor at the paperback publishing house, New English Library. It was the beginning of a career that saw him become what he described as the country's "least known bestseller", writing, under pen-names, 12 to 14 novels every year, 160 in total, which sold more than 12m copies. He wrote hell's angel novels as Mick Norman; Viking and Roman historical novels as Arthur Frazier, Andrew Quiller and Neil Langholm; science fiction under his own name; humorous confessions as Jonathan May and Christopher Nolan; and romances as Mary Fraser. He produced dozens of westerns, beginning in 1974 with the Apache series (as William M James), a violent revenge story which ran over two dozen novels, as did the Herne The Hunter (written as John J McLaglen). Many of James's pseudonyms were shared between a small, alternating group of writers; for example, William M James was split between James, Harknett and John Harvey.
Angus Wells was a British writer of genre fiction, including fantasy and, most famously, westerns. In addition to a few standalone novels written under his own name, Wells wrote under numerous pseudonyms, including Andrew Quiller (The Eagles), James A. Muir (Breed), Charles R. Pike (Jubal Cade), William S. Brady (Hawk and Peacemaker), Charles C. Garrett (Gunslinger), Richard Kirk (Raven), J. B. Dancer (The Lawmen) and Ian Evans. Encouraged by Laurence James, he left an editorial job in publishing in 1975 and became a freelance writer.
His friend and co-author, John Harvey, recalls: “A love, and near encyclopedic knowledge, of western movies - in particular those of Sam Peckinpah - helped to make Angus well suited to the task. He was as inventive and hardworking as was necessary to produce 50,000 words every four or five weeks, and in those books we wrote together, he could be relied upon to correct not just my faulty knowledge of guns and ammo, but my spelling of sheriff and marshal.”
Coming Soon in the Gunslinger series
THE GOLDEN GUN
WHITE APACHE
FIFTY CALIBER KILL
ARIZONA BLOODLINE
REBEL VENGEANCE
DEATH CANYON
PEACEMAKER
Weaponary Used In The Massacre Trail
.44 DERINGER
TRANTER DOUBLE TRIGGER
SHARPS .50
.36 NAVY COLT
.41 RIMFIRE DERRINGER
DRAGOON COLT
WHITNEYVILLE-WALKER DRAGOON
1840 ARMY COLT
SAVAGE 1861 NAVY .36
STARR DOUBLE-ACTION 1850
THE COLT MODEL 1862 POLICE REVOLVER
ENFIELD .577
SPENCER CARBINE
LEMAT REVOLVER
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