β Scribed by Brett Waring
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Wells Fargoβs top operative, Clay Nash, was hot on the trail of an outlaw gang who had stolen a fortune in golden coins. But just as the net was closing, he was recalled to Denver to hear some bad news. His boss, Jim Hume, had been badly shot by a mysterious stagecoach robber, and wasnβt expected to live. Clay and Jim went back a long way together, and he swore there and then that Jimβs attacker was going to pay for what heβd done.But first he had to find him.The trail led him all the way to the Big Muddy, and an audacious plan to launder that fortune in golden coins aboard the sternwheelers that plied the river.Before Clay could act, however, he found himself shackled and thrown into a dank, dark hold β¦ filled with rats determined to chew the flesh right off his bones!Keith Hetheringtonaka Kirk Hamilton, Brett Waring and Hank J. KirbyAustralian writer Keith has worked as television scriptwriter on such Australian TV shows as Homicide, Matlock Police, Division 4, Solo One, The Box, The Spoiler and Chopper Squad.βI always liked writing little vignettes, trying to describe the action sequences I saw in a film or the Saturday Afternoon Serial at local cinemas,β remembers Keith Hetherington, better-known to Piccadilly Publishing readers as Hank J. Kirby, author of the Bronco Madigan series.Keith went on to pen hundreds of westerns (the figure varies between 600 and 1000) under the names Kirk Hamilton (including the legendary Bannerman the Enforcer series) and Clay Nash as Brett Waring. Keith also worked as a journalist for the Queensland Health Education Council, writing weekly articles for newspapers on health subjects and radio plays dramatizing same.
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