Hey welcome to the board, where in the UK do you hail from?
The early DL books had a lot of extra crew that left for one reason or another (usually killed) by the time Laurence got to book 12 or so. His books also had continuity as each book picked up where the last left off.
Its no suprise that the books read like Westerns as Laurence James (the author) had written a whole host ofother books set in the wild west prior to picking up DL under several other pen names. Jak for example is an almost direct rip off of a character called "Whitey" (Jak is called "Whitey" in many of his DL books by various people) from his own Herne the Hunter series (as John J MacLaglan).
Laurence also wrote a short series of books about Hells angels (as Mick Norman) too.
You can find an almost completre list of his books here
http://www.dawtrina.com/p...ks/biblio/james.html Enjoy,
Jim
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