E. Jefferson Clay

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  • Bibliography:
    51 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1976
  • Latest Book:
    October 2022
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Book List in Order: 51 titles

  • Adios, Bandido!

    It had been months since Brazos and Benedict had started their search for Bo Rangle, the outlaw who'd killed most of their comrades in the War and stolen a fortune in gold while they were at it. But the west was a big place and Rangle could have gone...

  • Savage

    “Well, what do you think?” he asked at last.“Of what?”“Of me. You’ve given me a good enough lookin’ over to be sure you know me next time.”“I think you’ve got broad shoulders and slim hips, stranger. But we both know that don’t ...

  • Aces Wild

    They were an odd pair, the one-time Union captain and the former Confederate sergeant. They'd fought each other during the Battle of Pea Ridge ... and then ended up fighting shoulder to shoulder when a common enemy showed his face.Bo Rangle, leader o...

  • A Badge for Brazos

    Trouble was brewing in the town of Harmony, between the gun-toughs who manned the Two-Bar ranch, the hardcases who hung around the Rawhide Saloon and the beleaguered miners out at Whipple Creek. Into this explosive situation rode Hank Brazos and Duke...

  • The Damned

  • The Big Rancho

    After witnessing the cold-blooded killing of a man named Boyd Larsen, Duke Benedict and Hank Brazos found themselves up to their gunbelts in mystery, murder and mayhem. Someone was rustling cattle from Nate Kendrick's Rancho Antigua, and while that i...

  • Stage to Nowhere

    The sheriff of Tumbleweed took an instant dislike to Duke Benedict and Hank Brazos. The dude and the giant in the garish purple shirt looked like trouble to him. So he gave them one-way tickets for the next stage out to Flintlock ... and that's when ...

  • Too High a Price

    Slowly he saw the girlish mischief fade from her face to be replaced by something infinitely deeper and stronger. He set his empty glass aside, not taking his eyes off her. She did likewise. They embraced, and at first they kissed gently and hesitant...

  • The Quick and the Dead

    Her robe slipped from her shoulders and she stood naked before him. Savage reached for her gently, almost reverently. The light was turned down and a silver haze of moonlight drifted through the window of the hotel room.“Help me forget, Clinton...



  • The Living Legend

    The town of Glory was anything but glorious. It was actually a town filled with fear—fear of the wild Yellow House River bunch, and an outlaw gang led by Ben Hollister, a bad man they called the Living Legend for his gun-speed.Duke Benedict and...

  • Diablo Valley

    As usual, Duke Benedict and Hank Brazos were low on funds … until they ran into a drunken miner by the name of Arnie Woodcock. Arnie bore such an uncanny resemblance to a wanted outlaw called Turk Jory that it gave Benedict an idea. Suppose the...

  • Big Man Riding

    He put his arms around her and rubbed her back, like a man trying to warm his hands. She seemed to like it, so Savage rubbed some more, giving his hands more latitude. Marylou sighed and grew warm against him. She gave a startled gasp when his lips f...

  • The Big Ranchero

    After witnessing the cold-blooded killing of a man named Boyd Larsen, Duke Benedict and Hank Brazos found themselves up to their gunbelts in mystery, murder and mayhem. Someone was rustling cattle from Nate Kendrick''s Rancho Antigua, and while that ...

  • Desperadoes on the Loose

    There was trouble in Fortitude Valley. Someone had set up a lumber camp smack in the middle of cattle country. And to make matters worse, the lumbermen drafted in to work the axes and saws, and float the timber down to the sawmill, were paroled convi...

  • Never Ride West

    As a favor to his father, Duke Benedict took on the job of bodyguard to Governor Sherwood Garfield. The territory was still raw, and the cattlemen who had claimed most of the surrounding land were determined to fight Garfield’s Settler’s ...

  • Cry Riot!

    Spargo was a mining town . but there hadn''t been any mining there for a while. The mines were in a dangerous condition, and their owner, Foley Kingston, refused to make improvements. So the miners-those who''d survived the numerous cave-ins and acci...

  • Shoot and Be Damned

    Duke Benedict shook his head. “He’s bluffing. He won’t shoot.”Slattery’s thumb curled back the hammer of the .38. The girl’s body went limp in Slattery’s grip, her eyes huge pools of terror. The sound of Role...

  • Wardlock's Legion

    After all the trails they’d followed, and all the times they’d stood shoulder-to-shoulder against one bad man or another, the time had finally come for Duke Benedict and Hank Brazos to ride their separate ways. And though they had never r...

  • Get the Gringo!

    Savage kept right on running as though the hounds of hell were snapping at his heels, so fast in fact that the big sombrero tumbled off just as he raced beneath a light.“It is Savage!”Suddenly there was gunfire in the valley night, the wi...



  • Kid Chaney's Express

    Mack Halligan and Kid Chaney were rivals in more ways than one. They both loved the same woman, and she loved them, too … though she could never decide which one to marry.But the two men also ran rival outlaw gangs. The difference was that Hall...

  • Madigan's Last Stand

    The note just about summed it up.“Señor Benedict is now my prisoner and will be held for ransom. You will ride to Panhandle, New Mexico, and wire the Americano’s rich father in Boston. He is to wire back the sum of fifty thousand dol...

  • Bury the Losers

    Trouble was brewing between the Shotgun Ranch and its rivals, the Golden Hoof – and though they wanted no part of a range war, Benedict and Brazos eventually had to choose sides.There was just one problem.As the bodies piled up, and the gunsmok...

  • Fools' Frontier

    Crossing the Red Man River when it was in full flood wasn’t the wisest thing gambler Duke Benedict and his cowboy sidekick Hank Brazos had ever done. And when the ferry they riding tore free of its ropes, they found themselves driven downstream...

  • The Buzzard Breed

    It was a case of mistaken identity when Galloway’s two lawmen arrested Hank Brazos on a charge of rustling. Brazos went quietly, sure that his saddle pard, Duke Benedict, would soon arrive to help him clear everything up. But the law had other ...

  • The Dark Brotherhood

    They passed a solitary tree that had witnessed a hundred years of prairie history. Brendan stared back at it. Once they had hanged a man there, a bounty hunter who tried to poison their coffee after posing as a miner down on his luck. The Donovans ha...

  • Bo Rangle's Boothill

    Duke Benedict and Hank Brazos were finally closing in on the man they’d sworn to kill; the same man whose gang of cutthroats had massacred innocent men by the hundreds throughout the late Civil War. And Bo Rangle knew it. So he figured to dig u...

  • Echoes of Shiloh

    During the War Between the States, landowner Stanton Claiborne had served the Confederacy with distinction. And though the South had lost that conflict, Claiborne moved his family smack into the heart of Union country at war’s end. The Northern...

  • A Body to Die For

    Savage made a wild grab for the door but found it locked. He ducked instinctively as Colt thunder erupted beneath him. A bullet burned his forearm as Savage yelled to Angela to open the door. But it remained steadfastly shut while a badly-leaking Joh...

  • Born to Hang

    If ever a man was born to hang, it was Dusty Lane. But Lane never figured he would hang for a crime he didn’t commit … in this case, a cold-blooded double murder.Luckily for Dusty, his old friend Hank Brazos got to hear about his plight a...



  • Fool with a Fast Gun

    Brazos and Benedict had fallen out … again. But this time it looked as if their long partnership really had been damaged for good.Now Benedict was the marshal of a town called Archangel, where tensions were running high following a series of au...

  • Gunhawks on the Loose

    A war was raging between the Anvil Ranch and its bitter rival, the Fifty-four. Men were being cut down from ambush, cattle rustled, and each side constantly blamed the other. And when Joe Tucker, boss of the Fifty-four, hired Flint and Ram Brand, two...

  • Two Guns to Glory

    Old Justin Wardlaw was dying, but before he cashed in he wanted to see his four sons together again one last time. Cleve and David had never strayed far. Cleve ran a saloon in town, David ran his father’s mining operation. But what of Race and ...

  • Savage 9

  • The Glory Hunters

    Back East, Duke Benedict’s wealthy family believed he was a prominent lawyer who moved among the wild west’s rich and the famous. So when his father proposed to pay him a visit in the rough-and-ready town of Rawhide, Duke had to think fas...

  • Nobody Kills Like Ketchell

    Accused of stagecoach robbery, Duke Benedict and Hank Brazos had no choice but to run for their lives. It was just plain bad fortune that in so doing they ran smack into a wagon train heading across the desert for a mining town called Tarbuck.The wag...

  • Hanging Jimmy Ringo

    It would have been funny if things weren’t so serious.Savage was ready to go on with the gun duel when, through the rising dust and atop the false front of the general store on the south side of the square, he caught the glint of sunlight on gu...

  • Wear Black for Billy Quinn

    To fill their empty pockets, Benedict and Brazos turned bounty hunter, their mission to bring in a kill-crazy maniac called Billy Quinn, dead or alive. All the signs suggested that Quinn had taken up residence in a dead-end town called Babylon.But th...

  • Caleb Flint, Killer

    Tom Fallon of the Southwest Militia needed a man he could trust to get into an outlaw stronghold called Drum and rescue the beautiful wife of the state governor, so he called for an old friend, Duke Benedict. But Benedict showed up with a friend of h...

  • Wanted - Dead or Alive

    The two strangers rode into town on the trail of a gun-fast killer named Stark. When they left, however, they’d stolen $15,000 in gold dust from the Ophir Mine.The local marshal had one other piece of information to help him track them down. Th...



  • Naked Hate

    Savage ran like fury. An officer was bellowing pointless orders and men were fanning out across the top of the bluff to search for the intruder.Savage had doubled back to the primed but unattended field guns. Sweating and straining, he dragged them o...

  • A Day for Fools to Die

    It looked like the end of the trail for Benedict and Brazos, when Brazos got mighty mysterious all of a sudden and just took off on his own. Benedict, the urbane gambler, reckoned he should be glad to be free of the lumbering Texas cowboy at last. In...

  • When Five Bells Toll

    Benedict and Brazos had seen it all before—a supposedly genuine treasure map pointing to a priceless, solid gold statuette down in Old Mexico. According to legend, the Golden Virgin of Santo Sabinas had been hidden away in a spooky, disused mon...

  • Big Adios

    Bullets droned overhead. The enemy knew where he was but could not see him. But soon Savage could see them, one of them at least. It was a Mexican standing in a shielded doorway with a rifle to his shoulder and blasting at the gate house.Savage took ...

  • A Man Called Diablo

    The plan was simple. Duke Benedict would stay in Nogales and build up a stake from his poker winnings, while Hank Brazos ran a string of horses south into Mexico. When they were financially solvent again, they’d reward themselves with a long, r...

  • The Killing Ground

    He was a dead man walking.He staggered into the hotel lobby with a knife sticking out of one ear, and when he hit the floor the blade finally penetrated his brain and finished him off once and for all.Unfortunately, there was no shortage of suspects....

  • Dreadful Sorry, Clementine

    Duke Benedict had killed Jory Archer in a gunfight six months earlier. Now Jory’s brother, Teal, was itching to even the score. But to hedge his bets he took along a bunch of the toughest cutthroats ever to rob a stage or blow a bank safe.So Du...

  • Jagged Spur

    With yelps of triumph, the two surviving Comanches appeared on opposite sides of the staggering figure as Savage burst from the trees.He was so dazed he was unaware that the riders had been able to accurately trace his progress through the woods.He w...

  • The Legend of Scarlett and Jesse

    They called her Little Miss Pretty. Her real name was Dixie Talon, and she was the newborn daughter of railroad magnate Conrad Talon. Which meant that the tiny baby was worth big money to the gang that kidnapped and held her to ransom.The gang was le...

  • Marshal of Abilene

    Down on their luck, Duke Benedict and Hank Brazos were forced to take jobs herding cattle up the Chisholm Trail to Abilene. It was no hardship for Brazos—he’d more or less been born in the saddle and was cowboy all the way through. But Be...



  • Dead Man's Gold

    A ghost-town at midnight … a hearse driven by a dead man … and a coffin full of gold coins …For Benedict and Brazos, it was the start of another bullet-fast adventure.Benedict felt they were entitled to keep the loot. Brazos wanted ...

  • A Six-Gun Says Goodbye

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    Hank Brazos had served under Colonel Orson Clairborne during the war. So when their paths crossed again, he was delighted to meet up with his old commanding officer. Their reunion was cut short, however, when the Colonel was kidnapped, and his beauti...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

E. Jefferson Clay has published 51 books.

E. Jefferson Clay does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Dead Man's Gold, was published in October 2022.

The first book by E. Jefferson Clay, Adios, Bandido!, was published in January 1976.

No. E. Jefferson Clay does not write books in series.
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