McAllister had hunted many hard men in his time. But this time his prey was as dangerous as a sackful of live rattlers. The man he was after was a kill-crazy maniac. He'd left a trail of blood from Mexico to the Canadian border, collected a gang of the toughest guns in the West around him, then holed up in the high country of Wyoming. And McAllister had to bring him in...Another roaring, hell-for-leather McAllister adventure from the pen of Matt Chisholm, a foremost master of true Western excitement. 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 -
