Terry Harknett is a British author. He is author of almost 200 books, mostly pulp novels in the western

Western (genre)

The Western is a genre of various visual arts, such as film, television, radio, literature, painting and others. Westerns are devoted to telling stories set primarily in the latter half of the 19th century in the American Old West, hence the name. Some Westerns are set as early as the Battle of...

 and crime

Crime fiction

Crime fiction is the literary genre that fictionalizes crimes, their detection, criminals and their motives. It is usually distinguished from mainstream fiction and other genres such as science fiction or historical fiction, but boundaries can be, and indeed are, blurred...

 genre

Genre

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s. He has written as a ghostwriter

Ghostwriter

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 for Peter Haining

Peter Haining

Peter Alexander Haining was a British journalist, author and anthologist who lived and worked in Suffolk...

 and under an array of pseudonym

Pseudonym

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s, including George G. Gilman

George G. Gilman

George G. Gilman is one pseudonym, or pen name, of Terry Harknett. Under that name Harknett wrote three series of Western books: Edge, which his US publisher would brand, "The Most Violent Westerns In Print"; Adam Steele ; and The Undertaker...

, Joseph Hedges, William M. James, Charles R. Pike, Thomas H. Stone, Frank Chandler, Jane Harman, Alex Peters, William Pine, William Terry, James Russell and David Ford. Some bibliographies list Adam Hardy as one of Harknett's pseudonyms, in fact a nom de plume of Kenneth Bulmer

Kenneth Bulmer

Henry Kenneth Bulmer was a British author, primarily of science fiction.-Life:Born in London, he married Pamela Buckmaster on 7 March 1953. They had one son and two daughters, and were divorced in 1981...

. This is an error resulting from incorrect copyright information printed in one of the Edge westerns.

He has written a number of series including:

• Steve Wayne (9 books under his own name)
• Crown (3 books under his own name)
• Edge (61 books as George G. Gilman)
• Adam Steele (49 books as George G. Gilman)
• Edge Meets Adam Steele (3 books as George G. Gilman)
• The Undertaker (6 books as George G. Gilman)
• The Revenger (12 books as Joseph Hedges)
• Apache (27 books as William M. James)
• Jubal Cade (3 books as Charles R. Pike)
• Chester Fortune (5 books as Thomas H. Stone)

Harknett's westerns have been identified as an influence by authors including Robert J. Randisi  and Peter Brandvold

Peter Brandvold

Peter Brandvold is an American western fiction author, who has written more than thirty published novels.Born and raised in North Dakota, Peter Brandvold spent much of his early life riding horses, reading western novels, and watching western movies....

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