Living at the fringes of the U.S. Army, the Frontier, and themselves, the garrison at Fort Clendennon hunkers down with a rag-tag group of travellers and prepares for an Indian onslaught. Can the Army's most dishonorable, untrustworthy, and insubordinate group of soldiers-too rotten to depend on but not quite bad enough to discharge-band together against the common threat? And will the notorious gunfighter-known only as Chuka-follow his gut and keep on passing through or will he unholster his six-guns to go against the very odds that had saved his skin countless times before? This book is part of the Richard Jessup Rejuvenation Project. We will be republishing all of Jessup's books that we can, including those written under his pseudonym Richard Telfair. We aim to have nearly his entire body of work back in print by 2015. Visit www.RichardJessup.com for project updates and a complete listing of currently-published books
About the Author: Richard Jessup (01/01/1925 - 10/27/1982) was born in Savannah, Georgia and died in Nokomis, Florida. He lived in and out of orphanages until age sixteen - when he ran away to join the United States Merchant Marine. In eleven years of seamanship, he claimed he read a book a day and learned to write by typing out the complete text of War and Peace and editing out the errors - he subsequently threw the edited work in the ocean. Jessup was married to Vera in 1944 and had a daughter named Marina. He left the Merchant Marine in 1948 to become a fulltime author. He was at the typewriter ten hours a day. Jessup's obituary claims he wrote over sixty novels (only confirmed a bibliography of thirty-four). His first novel, The Cunning and the Haunted, was published in 1954 and filmed as The Young Don't Cry in 1957. Three other novels were also adapted to film - The Deadly Duo, Chuka, and The Cincinnati Kid. He sold the movie rights to the 1971 novel Foxway but it was never filmed. Jessup published eleven novels - primarily westerns and spy thrillers - as Richard Telfair. His last novel, Threat, was published in 1981. BIBLIOGRAPHY Written as Richard Jessup 1954 - The Cunning and the Haunted (The Young Don't Cry) 1955 - A Rage to Die 1956 - Cry Passion 1957 - Cheyenne Saturday 1957 - Comanche Vengeance 1958 - Long Ride West 1958 - Lowdown 1958 - Texas Outlaw 1959 - The Deadly Duo 1959 - The Man in Charge 1960 - Sabadilla 1960 - Night Boat to Paris 1961 - Chuka 1961 - Port Angelique 1961 - Wolf Cop 1963 - The Cincinnati Kid 1967 - The Recreation Hall 1969 - Sailor 1970 - A Quiet Voyage Home 1971 - Foxway 1974 - The Hot Blue Sea 1981 - Threat Written as Richard Telfair 1958 - Day of the Gun 1958 - Wyoming Jones 1959 - The Bloody Medallion 1959 - The Corpse that Talked 1959 - The Secret of Apache Canyon 1959 - Wyoming Jones for Hire 1960 - Scream Bloody Murder 1960 - Sundance 1961 - Good Luck, Sucker 1961 -The Slavers 1962 - Target for Tonight Film Adaptations 1957 - The Young Don't Cry 1962 - Deadly Duo 1965 - The Cincinnati Kid 1967 - Chuka