It was great to see that Neil Hunter's 'Bodie' was about to make a comeback.
The original Star paperbacks ran to a series of six - all of them coming out at the wane of what had been a successful era for the western. On the spine the books were called 'Bodie The Stalker' - not a name that was used in the story.
This time the series is coming out in e-book format from Piccadilly Publishing.
And the brains behind this new publishing venture who hope to bring more series from the group of writers known as the Piccadilly Cowboys are David Whitehead and Mike Stotter. Both men have a long history with the western genre from their childhood in London's East End right through to today where they are western writers in their own right.
They have always championed the genre and the writers of such series as 'Herne The Hunter' and 'Hart The Regulator' and many others.
Bodie is a bounty hunter and the action of these books take place at a time when bounty hunting was legal. While Bodie is a man of action, he is also a thinker and plans ahead to his own exacting rules and regulations. A man of few words he gets the job done - sometimes fairly as is seen in the opening to 'Trackdown' the first book in the series.
Bodie 1: Trackdown is available from all the usual outlets.
