The Loner 10: Day of the Damned

By Sheldon B. Cole

It was said that a fortune in outlaw gold lay buried under the hill. Leastways, that’s what Torp Berry and his gang of cutthroats believed. But they were damned if they’d clear that hill and shift all the rocks themselves. No – it was easier for them to waylay any passing strangers and set them to work instead ... at gunpoint.
Into this situation rode Blake Durant. He’d come to deliver a message from a dead man. Next thing he knew, he was disarmed, half-starved, chained to a wall every freezing night and forced into hard labor or face Will Hapgood’s deadly whip.
So Blake bided his time. Right now he and the others were damned to a short, hard life of slavery. But when the day of the damned was over there would come another day ... one of reckoning!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Piccadilly
• Release date: Aug 18, 2021
• ISBN: 9780463783498

Sheldon B. Cole

Robert Desmond Dunn was born in Mackay, Queensland, Australia but was known as Desmond Robert Dunn or Des Dunn.Dunn wrote fiction paperback novelettes published by Cleveland Publishing from the late 1950's onward. Each title was 30,000 to 40,000 words long. He wrote four crime titles as Des R. Dunn.Dunn is best known for western novelettes published under several pseudonyms. Dunn's pseudonyms included: Shad Denver, Gunn Halliday, Adam Brady, Brett Iverson, Matt Cregan, Sheldon B. Cole, Walt Renwick and Morgan Culp. He is known to have written over 400 titles using these pseudonyms.With Don Harding, Dunn is also believed to have written a number of the 290-300 titles in the Larry Kent detective series.Dunn married and divorced twice and had three children. Dunn died in Brisbane, Queensland aged 73.