An outlaw gang wants revenge on a small-town sheriff, but he skips town and leaves a hot-headed young deputy, and a burned-out former lawman, to take on the gang in Gunn Halliday's Danton's Day.
As one might suspect, "Gunn Halliday" is somebody else, in this case one of those many crazily prolific Australian writers Cleveland Publishing kept seeming to find; in this case Desmond Dunn, who wrote under a bushel of names and genres.
To me, this was an unusually robust Cleveland Western, as they are generally slender volumes with a single story arc sketched in. Here we find a number of colorful characters and more intricate plot, still resolving about where you'd think, with the burned-out lawman finding the strength to coach the younger deputy into standing and fighting.
Halliday finds a way to make Danton's Day pop more than the average western, thus making me want to look for more from him.
I picked this out from a big stack of Cleveland Westerns I lucked into and read it quickly on a camping trip.
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