sudden series by oliver strange

About Sudden

James Green aka Sudden is a fictional character created by the author Oliver Strange and after his death carried on by Frederick H. Christian. The books are centred around a gunfighter in the American Wild West era, who is in search of two men who cheated his foster father. Jim the young man promises his dying father that he will find the two and take revenge. He gives the name James Green to himself and in time gets accused of a robbery himself and becomes an outlaw.

The books were first published around the late 1920s and the early 1930s. They featured vivid descriptions of the western American landscape, rare in an author at that time. These book have been out of print for a very long time, and are currently available for purchase only in paper format, after being owned by one of more people.

Oliver Strange wrote 10 Sudden books (in order of storyline, below)
• Sudden—Outlawed (1935)
• Sudden (1933)
• Sudden—Gold Seeker (1937)
• Sudden Rides Again (1938)
• Sudden Makes War (1942)
• Sudden Takes the Trail (1940)
• Sudden Plays a Hand (1950)
• The Marshal of Lawless (1933)
• The Range Robbers (1930)
• The Law o' the Lariat (1931)


And those written by Frederick H. Christian were:
• Sudden Strikes Back (1966)
• Sudden—Troubleshooter (1967)
• Sudden at Bay (1968)
• Sudden—Apache Fighter (1969)
• Sudden—Dead or Alive! (1970)