Halliday was minding his own business when he rode straight into a shooting match between a pair of youngsters and a bunch of seasoned gunmen. The contest was so uneven that he just couldn’t pass on by, so he took a hand...and soon found himself caught up in the middle of a bitter range war. 

Donna Heller and her hair-trigger kid brother Kip were struggling to hold their ranch against cattleman Nathan Dean. Dean wanted their land and had hired a whole passel of gunfighters to make sure he got it. It was an old story, and Halliday had heard all too often in the past, but this time...this time something just didn’t sit right with him, and he wondered if everything was really as it seemed. 

Even as he and Donna grew closer to each other, the girl threw him a further surprise. She was an outlaw’s woman...and the outlaw in question, Sam Rushton, had jealous streak a mile wide. 

Halliday could have lit out and avoided any further confrontation. But he had the uncomfortable feeling that he was already in way over his head.... 

Adam Brady was one of many pseudonyms used by prolific Australian writer Desmond Robert Dunn (November 6, 1929-May 5, 2003). In addition to four crime novels published under his own name, Des was a tireless western writer whose career spanned more than 50 years and well in excess of 400 oaters. These quick-moving, vivid and always compelling stories appeared under such pen-names as Shad Denver, Gunn Halliday, Adam Brady, Brett Iverson, Matt Cregan, Walt Renwick and Morgan Culp. 

He is also said to have written a number of the ever-popular Larry Kent P.I. novels, but at this late date author attribution is almost impossible. He married and divorced twice, and had three children. He died at the age of 73 in Brisbane, Queensland.