VENGEANCE. That was All Rem McAllister had on his mind.His wife had been foully raped and murdered by a band of convicts escaped from Yuma Penitentiary, they also killed his hired hand.McAllister and his stepson, Pepe, vowed to avenge their deaths and were prepared to hunt down the guilty men across three States into the impenetrable brush-country of Texas. They face a desperate bunch of cunning, ruthless animals in human form. Each man-Dean Rockwell, the Yuma Kid, Frankie Rosco, Hank Doofay and Art Ryker would face McAllister's justice, with no thought to preserve his own skin. 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 -
