Sudden 01 The Range Robbers

Overview: James Green aka Sudden is a fictional character created by an English author Oliver Strange in the late 1930s as the hero of a series, originally published by George Newnes Books Ltd, set in the American Wild West era. Oliver Strange died in in 1952, and the series was revived by Frederick H. Christian in the 1960s. Christian classified the books as "Piccadilly westerns", that is books written by English authors, simply drawing on the conventions the genre, with no first hand experience of America. The Sudden books are among the earliest and best-loved of the type. Sudden is portrayed as an intrepid and accurate gunfighter in search of two men who cheated his foster father. James Green earns the nickname "Sudden" because of his lightning speed with a gun. Sudden is portrayed as a stereotypical gunfighter: an intelligent and resourceful drifting cowboy who is respectful of the law, unwilling to use a gun unless absolutely necessary, humanitarian, brave, strong, and fair. The first book was published in 1930 and was followed by 10 more until the 1940s and featured vivid descriptions of the western American landscape, rare in an author at that time. The series became popular for its exciting narrations combining elements of mystery, suspense, and action, with engaging characters, in a Wild West setting of dusty towns, ranches, and saloons. This is where it all began, and where Sudden's quest for the two people he had doggedly looked for through 3 years of being unfairly outlawed, ended in his finding the 2 men whom he had sworn to kill. The very 2 he had promised a dying foster parent, he would make sure he hounded till death, at least through Sudden's lifetime. Peters on and Webb. The author began the Sudden series with this book, and only later put together the famous series detailing the journey of the 3 years of Jim Green's quest. From being unfairly outlawed to many other escapades, Oliver Strange's descriptive writing has kept these series alive even after decades of having been written. The daring gunplay, the emotional aspects of each of his books, and the intelligence with which the hero faces adversity in his inimical fair fighting ways, leaves the reader with visions of what this could have been like, almost as if watching a movie.