BOOK 483
Belle Starr’s daughter, Rosie Lee Reed, barely twenty, runs a large bordello in a town in Alabama. She is attacked on the street and Clint is there to protect her. After that she asks Clint if he will help her resist attempts to take over her business. If he won’t help her, then she offers to pay him. Clint likes the young girl’s courage and agrees.
J.R. Roberts (Robert J. Randisi) is an American author who writes in the Detective and Western genres. He has authored more than 500 published books and has edited more than 30 anthologies of short stories. Booklist magazine said he "may be the last of the pulp writers."
He co-founded and edited Mystery Scene magazine and co-founded the American Crime Writers League. He founded The Private Eye Writers of America in 1981, where he created the Shamus Award.