Creole Curse

The mysterious disappearance of three women in New Orleans rings alarm bells right up to the steps of Washington itself. As one of the missing girls is the daughter of the powerful and well-connected Oliver Delacort, Jason Brand is ordered to discover the girls' fate. In a very short time he soon discovers that Crescent City isn't the prettiest of places. Brand meets with violent resistance from the get-go.But they picked on the wrong man. Brand is a force to be reckoned with, and with his .45 primed and ready, those standing in his way of justice had better take care ... even those who practice the dark art of Voodoo! Neither gators nor ghosts are going to stop Brand in this blood-soaked adventure. 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!