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SUNDANCE by PETER McCURTIN

Peter McCurtin was a paperback writer. None of his books ever came out in a hardcover edition in the United States. He wrote fast-paced pulp fiction, Westerns, thrillers and crime novels from the late 1960s into the 1990s.

Born in Ireland on October 15, 1929. He immigrated to the United States as a young man and found work as an editor and writer. His name is found as co-editor of NEW YORK REVIEW, as assistant editor of ALL-MAN, as editor of CAVALCADE. The first published book under his own name was a 1968 Midwood called ANYTHING GOES. McCurtin was soon working as an editor for Midwood publisher Harry Shorten. Shorten would lose Midwood, but he put McCurtin to work editing books for his other lines, Tower, Belmont (later Belmont Tower), and Leisure Book. And there, as an editor, McCurtin also wrote some of the books, both under his own name and house names. And he used his own name as a house name too, hiring other writers to create books under the byline "Peter McCurtin".

Due to McCurtin's love of pseudonyms (and pseudonyms who wrote as other pseudonyms), and due to his use of ghost writers, we know it will probably never be complete. Piccadilly Publishing are only issuing the Sundance titles that they know to be 100% written by McCurtin. We hope you enjoy these as well as you do those written by John Benteen. You can find them here


"Peter McCurtin brings real vitality to the action Western." - Ed Gorman, Spur Award-winning author.


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    33: HANGMAN'S KNOT

Riding into Fort Smith, Arkansas, Sundance had to kill a man who ambushed him. He received an instant death sentence from the infamous Hanging Judge. Then, on the morning he was to be hanged, the Judge offered him a deal. If Sundance delivered the feared half-breed outlaw Joe Buck, he would be freed. But Sundance remembered the old days when he and Buck had worked together to help their people. If it came down to that, could he kill his old partner?

Published May 01, 2024
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    32: GOLD STRIKE

Riding through Nevada, Jim Sundance came across one of the biggest gold strikes the Territory had ever known.

A lucky break, the gunman thought … until he went to nearby Orono to stake the claim. Millionaire miner Jackson Selby, who ruled the mining town with an iron fist, got wind of the half-breed's strike and wanted in on the action. But Sundance wouldn't sell, even though he knew the consequences.
So Sundance and a band of die-hard prospectors and drifters dug in at the mine and prepared to face Selby's marauders.
Death would determine the ownership of this gold mine!

Published January 01, 2024
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    31: THE SAVAGE

Arriving in California to join the fight against crooked politicians in the Indian Ring, Sundance learned of a plot to kill his old friend General Crook.

But where was the threat coming from?

That's the mystery Jim Sundance has to solve in order to save Crook.

The enraged half-breed swore that blood would be spilled—enough to make a desert bloom.

Published October 01, 2023
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    30: DEATH DANCE

Wealthy cattleman Brian Athlone promised Sundance a generous reward if the half-bred could find Athlone's daughter Laurie, who had been abducted by Indians.

If he failed, however, Athlone swore to destroy the village of Sundance's blood brothers ... the Indians who had kidnapped Laurie.

When Sundance reached the village, however, he learned that the girl had vanished, and the enraged chief promised Sundance death by slow torture if he didn’t return her to the tribe!

Published July 01, 2023
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Published April 01, 2023
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    29: CANYON KILL

A herd of cattle had been stolen, the cowboys who tended them massacred.

A story was going around that Comanches were responsible. Three dead braves found in the vicinity of the massacre were said to be part of the war party.

But Jim Sundance knew better.

Half-Indian himself, he set out to prove that his brothers had been framed ... by a white man.

The vengeance trail led straight to Hale Erskine, former major in the Confederate Army, and now the biggest cattle rancher in the brasada.

If Sundance had anything to do with it, Erskine wouldn't live to see another day!


Published January 01, 2023
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    28: BLOOD KNIFE

Burke Hunter, one of the deadliest knife fighters in the West, had disappeared.

Sundance was hired to look for him, and got as far as an Apache Indian camp where Hunter had been taken prisoner, suspected of stealing a sacred cache of Apache gold.

But when Hunter double-crossed him and the Apaches tried to capture him, Sundance knew that there was going to be death on the desert, either by a bullet or a blade.

He also knew that Hunter's beautiful wife Eloise would welcome the survivor, whichever man it proved to be!


Published December 01, 2019
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    27: TEXAS EMPIRE

Sundance was riding in the wildest corner of West Texas when he heard tell of a ruthless land baron called Hollis Bannister.

As owner of the biggest ranch in the western half of the state, Bannister didn't quite take to the idea of new settlers moving in on his share. Bannister figured things would run smoother if he got rid of the governor and ran the territory his own way.

As part of his plan to make himself dictator of the state of West Texas, Bannister hired a slew of gunslinging hard-cases and ex-soldiers to run out anyone opposed to him.

That was when Sundance came in as one of Bannister's hired guns, he'd have a good chance of uncovering the whole operation ... if he didn't get himself killed first.


Published September 01, 2019
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    26: CHOCTAW COUNTY WAR

Sundance was on his way to pay respects to an old friend when he spotted a boy running across the prairie.

He had escaped from kidnappers and Sundance helped the lad return home. But what the boy called home didn't sit too well with Sundance.

The boy's father was Owen Mahaffey, a tyrannical oil baron who controlled the city of Tamarack, a town where greed ran rampant and violence struck like wildfire.

When the halfbreed got wind of what was going on there, nothing could stop the rage seething within him.


Published June 01, 2019
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    25: THE HUNTERS

Big game hunter Edward Manning has come all the way from England to hire Sundance as a guide on a hunt for wild grizzlies.

But Manning soon tired of stalking his four-legged prey, and set his sights on the one thing he had never hunted before—a fellow human being, Sundance himself!

For the first time in his life, Sundance was the hunted, rather than the hunter, pitting his strength, wits and cunning against a cold and ruthless killer whose skill equalled his own!


Published March 01, 2019
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  24: BUFFALO WAR

Josiah Moore's ruthless and well-armed hunting expedition had invaded the Staked Plains to kill off the last of the buffalo herds.

But their presence on Indian land threatened to cause an all-out war.

Desperate, General Crook called in Sundance and told him the only way to avoid a massacre was to drive Moore and his men off the Plains … something easier said than done!


Published November 01, 2018
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  23: APACHE WAR

Sundance was dispatched on a mission to Fort McHenry, Arizona, where an arrogant young Army major was itching for war. The major's "enemy", the Apache people had been living in peace for years but by the time Sundance arrived, the killing had begun.

The soldiers were out for blood, and only Sundance could prevent an all-out war in the desert.


Published August 01, 2018
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  22: SCORPION

Jim Sundance knew he wasn't traveling in good company. But Burt McGill had more to offer than a beautiful wife and a nasty disposition - he had five hundred spanking new Winchesters.

And nobody needed them more than Sundance's old compatriot Paco Acosta - the only honest man in Mexico.

Too late, Sundance realized that McGill was in cahoots with the man they called The Scorpion, a killer who aimed to be crowned Emperor of Mexico. To pull it off, The Scorpion needed those Winchesters in his hands and a dead Sundance!


Published May 01, 2018
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  21: THE MARAUDERS

Jim Sundance was no lawman, but when his friend John Tree was gunned down by the notorious Ryker gang, he found the swiftest course of revenge was to take the job of sheriff of Cimarron City.

The last two sheriffs had been brutally murdered by the bloodthirsty gang, and now Ryker and his boys aimed to take over the town.

The terrified towns-people were forced to side with the outlaws but Sundance would rather face the savage killers alone than turn his back on them.


Published February 01, 2018
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    20: LOS OLVIDADOS

Jim Sundance learned of a plot to kill his old friend General Cook, an outspoken opponent of the corrupt Indian Ring in Washington. The general, however refused to go into hiding, making a walking target of himself for his enemies.

There was only one man who could give Sundance information about the plot, but when the halfbreed went to question him, he found him dead.

To save Crook's life, Sundance would now have to solve a case with no clues and find a killer without a name or face!


Published November 01, 2017
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    19: DAY OF THE HALFBREEDS

Trouble was brewing in Canada among the halfbreeds and full-blooded Indians. Led by a fantatic, they were forming a renegade army whose purpose was to destroy whites on both sides of the border.

Jim Sundance was the logical choice to infiltrate the band of rebels in order to prevent an insurrection that could only lead to widespread bloodshed.

For the first time in his life, he was faced with the necessity of betraying his own people. Even with all he knew to be at stake, Sundance wasn't sure he could do it!


Published August 01, 2017
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    18: THE NIGHTRIDERS

Jim Sundance could be a deadly enemy, but he was also a lifelong friend. Simon Tolliver found this out when the halfbreed showed up to help him save his ranch from the landgraber Greely Nash.

Nash had an outlaw army at his disposal, led by an ex-cavalry officer who hatred of Sundance knew no bounds.

Sundance loved a good fight, and this looked like it would be one of the best!


Published May 01, 2017
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    17: MANHUNT

First in the series written by Peter McCurtin

He was a half-breed fighting man and professional killer. No joy was too tough if the money was right. When Sundance was on your trail it was only a matter of time.

Sundance was riding north from Arizona to Seattle at the request of an old friend. Several trappers had been murdered while setting out their winter lines. There were no clues except for an old piece of wood found near each body with one word, Carcajou, burnt into it.

No sooner had Sundance set foot in town than he found himself in a tangle with a couple of gunmen aiming to see that he didn't stick around long. But Sundance wasn't the kind to get caught in a trap. Just before the two men died, one managed to utter a single word: Carcajou!

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