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Shots at Sunrise

(1983)
(Book 20 in the Renegade series)
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Captain Gringo dodges death's sting on the killer-infested Mosquito Coast!
Having broken all Ten Commandments - with plenty of pleasure and no punishment - the Renegade never expected to face a firing squad for a crime he hadn't committed. But death at sunrise might be easier to endure than spending the night with a luscious, nubile senorita who refuses to be touched. There are other women who'd kill to share his bed, but they keep getting shot out from under him. Things really get tough for him, though, at a strange mission run by some very sexy and sinister nuns who do "good works," but only when they're not wearing their habits.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Lou Cameron (June 20, 1924 - November 25, 2010) was an American novelist and a comic book creator. He was born in San Francisco in 1924 to Lou Cameron Sr. and Ruth Marvin Cameron, a vaudeville comedian and his vocalist wife. Cameron served in Europe during World War II in the U.S. Army's 2nd Armored Division ("Hell On Wheels"). Before becoming a writer, Cameron illustrated comics such as Classics Illustrated and miscellaneous horror comics. One of his first written stories, "The Last G.I.," is a science Other fiction story about American soldiers struggling to survive in a nuclear battlefield. It appeared in Real War (volume 2 number 2, October 1958).
The film to book adaptations he wrote include None But the Brave starring Frank Sinatra, California Split, Sky Riders starring James Coburn, Hannibal Brooks starring Oliver Reed and an epic volume based on a number of scripts for the award winning CBS miniseries How the West Was Won (not to be confused with the novelization by Louis L'amour of the identically titled feature film, although the TV series was loosely based on that film.)
He also wrote two novels based on TV series: an original, The Outsider, based on the Private Eye series starring Darren McGavin (alone among Cameron's tie-ins, it's written in the first person, from the POV of its main character, P.I. David Ross, a device inspired by the main character's voice-over commentary in the episodes); and "A Praying Mantis Kills", one of the novelizations of the Kung Fu television series, under the "house name" (shared pseudonym provided by the publisher) "Howard Lee". (The three other books in that series were written, also as Howard Lee, by Barry N. Maltzberg and Ron Goulart.)


Genre: Western

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