An aging sheriff abruptly retires, and a town leader with a strong hand appoints an inexperienced clerk as the new sheriff; unfortunately, a pair of vengeance-minded brothers are heading their way in Shad Denver's Gun Protege.
I stumbled across a small collection of the hard-to-find Australian paperback Cleveland Westerns and have been reading them steadily. I thought they were by a whole bunch of different authors, but several I picked up in a row have actually been by the prolific Desmond Robert Dunn, under various names.
Again Dunn writes an above-average western with a few surprises, including the secret motivation of the retired sheriff (albeit overall sharing a few similarities with another Dunn western I read recently, Danton's Day).
Cleveland Westerns are fast reads but often lightly sketched in; this "Shad Denver" one has a bit more to offer. Enjoyable.
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