McAllister - Die Hard

It was not McAllister's speed with a gun – nor his accuracy. It was his infernal luck. The way he walked away alive from every fight.Brennan was nervous. He had come to Black Horse to kill. And McAllister was wearing the sheriff's badge.At stake was the life of a newspaperman who opposed the land-grabbing ranchers. Also the safety of his beautiful daughter ... and the future of the terrorized small farmers.But the hired assassin and the lawman had one thing in common – a passion for horses. And it was McAllister's plan to bait his trap by staging the greatest horse-race the West had ever known ... 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). Rem McAllister -