Devil Wind

Clay Jared

by R. Annan

In the 1880s, Nature sends a drought across the Kansas plains. Rivers, streams, and water holes dry up, and cattle die by the thousands.
While on the drift, Clay Jared meets freewheeling Virgil McClain. They sign on with the small Diamond D spread only to find it is being crushed by the big Circle J, which is owned by hostile rancher Bill Jorth. Jorth has fenced in the only available water in the area.
Can Jared and McClain save the Diamond D from being destroyed by Jorth’s band of killers? Owner Fran Darnell and her beautiful, headstrong daughter, Kim, hope so.
In Devil Wind, the shootouts are plenty and the body counts are high.

138 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 18, 2016

About the author

R. Annan is a seasoned and traveled author with many interests. As a career serviceman he served in Korea and Vietnam. He also completed a one-year course at the Defense Language Institute at Monterey, California, and graduated from the University of South Florida with a B.A. in Art and Art History. After taking a two-year course in screenwriting at the Hollywood Scriptwriting Institute, he established The Old Time Radio Club Time Machine as both a scriptwriter and an actor.
As a young boy growing up in the city, R. Annan never passed up a chance to see a western movie. His heroes were Buck Jones, Johnny Mack Brown, Wild Bill Elliot and John Wayne, to name a few. As an adult he often wondered where his love of westerns came from. Perhaps it has something to do with his grandfather, John L. Annan, who was a cowboy from Helena, Montana, in days of old.