Big Jim Rand didn't plan on becoming the guest of honor at a shotgun wedding, but this was what the roughneck Gillery brothers had in mind when they kidnapped the tall avenger and his sidekick - that philosophical Mexican, little Benito.To add to Big Jim's troubles, outlaw Pete Holbrook and his cutthroat crew were closing in on the Gillery ranch, preparing to kidnap or murder the high-spirited Lucy Rose, sister of the hard-boiled Gillerys.Here are Big Jim and Benito, caught in the middle of another dangerous intrigue, another crisis that could only end in a gunsmoke showdown. Leonard Frank Meares was an Australian writer of western fiction. He wrote over 700 Westerns for the Australian paperback publishers Cleveland and Horwitz using the pseudonym "Marshall McCoy", "Marshall Grover" "Ward Brennan" and "Glenn Murrell".
