![]() ![]() ![]() Terry's first western novel was an adaption of the film A Town Called Bastard (1971), which was published under the pseudonym "William Terry". In his capacity as features editor for National Newsagent, he also interviewed Louis L'Amour in 1969. Over the next decade he wrote a further eight of these "Stephen Wayne" mysteries. Raymond Chandler had been an early influence on Harknett, and after selling some two dozen short stories to a variety of publications, he finally published his first full length novel, a thriller called The Benevolent Blackmailer, in 1962. He married Jane Harman in 1960, and became a reporter and features editor for National Newsagent, a weekly book trade magazine, in 1961. ![]() ![]() In 1955 he was called up for National Service, and served in the Royal Air Force until 1957, when he returned to civilian life and went to work as a publicity assistant at the British office of Twentieth Century Fox. Although he had no particular interest in the western apart from a very general impression of the form culled from the western movies he'd seen, his first western short story, Guns at the Silver Horseshoe, appeared in the 14 January 1955 issue of Reveille. ![]()
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