According to his obituary

Mr. [Dan] Cushman wrote books set in the South Pacific, the Congo and the Yukon, and he drew on his colorful life for much of his fiction. He worked as a cowboy, a printer, a prospector, a geologist’s assistant, an advertising writer and a radio announcer.

One of Dan Cushman characters was called Armless O’Neil, and was a guy with a hook for a hand, that plied his trade – as mercenary and an adventurer – in Dark Africa. Continue reading →