The Gauntlet - Softcover

Brand, Max

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ISBN 10: 1477838813 ISBN 13: 9781477838815

Publisher: AmazonEncore, 2013

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THE REAL WEST!

Max Brand's novels and stories—certainly among the greatest in Western fiction—are always peopled with true, realistic characters and marked by a sense of authenticity few other authors could match. Three of the best examples of this are the short novels found in this collection, each painstakingly restored to Brand's original version. The opening novel tells the tale of a legendary friendship between two men who could take on a whole saloon of tough frontiersmen, but who run into trouble with beautiful Kate Malone. "The King of Rats" features the man known as Reata, a master of the rawhide rope, a man caught between his sense of duty and his love for a gypsy girl. And in the title novel, Joseph Larrimee finally makes a gold strike that would prove his worth to his family...but he's willing to give it all up to rescue a mysterious woman from a gang of hardcases.

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About the Author:

Max Brand's action-filled stories of adventure and heroism in the American West continue to entertain readers throughout the world. Brand penned over 200 full-length Westerns in his career, including Destry Rides Again and Montana Rides. Several of his novels are available from Brilliance Audio.

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It has been said that Max Brand, the pen name of Frederick Faust, may have reached more people in more ways than any other writer. Besides westerns, he wrote crime fiction, fantasy, sci-fi, and as the creator of Dr. Kildare, medical romance. And, for the last 75 years, unpublished, resurrected, or restored Max Brand stories have continued to appear at the rate of one every four months. Not bad for a man who gave up a booming career at age 51 to serve as a World War II war correspondent only to be killed in action. This latest collection of resurrected pieces features three short novels, previously published only in periodicals: The Blackness of MacTee, which first appeared as Black Thunder in 1933; King of Rats, also published in 1933 as Reata's Desert Ride, under the name of George Owen Baxter; and The Gauntlet, which appeared under the Baxter name in 1921. These vintage Brands tell classic tales of frontier adventure in which honor shines, love is true, and virtue is always rewarded. Budd Arthur

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