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In his Dan Barry novels, Max Brand tells the stirring story of the West, with a bigger-than-life character Whistling Dan Barry and his two rather strange companions, a wild and beautiful black stallion named Satan, and a ferocious wolf-dog called Black Bart. One of the most interesting characters in Western fiction, Whistling Dan is a hero of the west. He can fight several man and still win, he is the best gun fighter there is and he can shoot silver dollars in the air. With somewhat supernatural abilities he can control a mighty wild stallion and a vicious wolf-dog. Frederick Schiller Faust...

As World War One is about to break out, we find our heros in the mean streets of Honolulu, from where we follow them on the open seas, to a deserted island, back on the seas, and finally, to Central America. The pair of main characters are two men, a Scottish sailor and an Irish landlubber who are similar to the point that they hate each other. They are in a constant feud over a woman, but very often have to collaborate in order to survive troubles, such as shipwrecks, finding food and water on a deserted island, standing up to a street mob or outwitting savage mutineers. Frederick Schiller...

In an entertaining horse opera, Riders of the Silences, Max Brand is telling of the Legend of Red Pierre La Rouge and the phantom gunfighter, McGurk. In Canada, a young man Pierre is raised as an orphan, until he receives a letter from the American father he never knew existed. Pierre's father is dying, and so the young man goes to see him and, to give him the burial no one else will, and in the end, to avenge his death. To achieve his goals, Pierre takes up with a gang of outlaws, including Jacqueline Boone, a woman who dresses and acts like a man and calls herself Jack. In Crossroads, Brand...

This collection contains three adventurous historical romances set in 16th-century Italy. The main character is Tizzo, a master swordsman, known as "Firebrand" because of his flaming red hair and flame-blue eyes. Frederick Schiller Faust (1892-1944) was an American author known primarily for his thoughtful and literary Westerns under the pen name Max Brand. Prolific in many genres he wrote historical novels, detective mysteries, pulp fiction stories and many more. His love for mythology was a constant source of inspiration for his fiction, and it has been speculated that these classical...

Frederick Schiller Faust (1892-1944) was an American author known primarily for his thoughtful and literary Westerns under the pen name Max Brand. Brand also created the popular fictional character of young medical intern Dr. James Kildare in a series of pulp fiction stories. Prolific in many genres he wrote historical novels, detective mysteries, pulp fiction stories and many more. His love for mythology was a constant source of inspiration for his fiction, and it has been speculated that these classical influences accounted in some part for his success as a popular writer. Many of his...