The Rock of Kiever
By Max Brand
1998
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THREE OF BRAND'S BEST! Here are three of Max Brand's classic short novels, all carefully restored from Brand's own manuscripts, and collected in paperback for the first time. In "Range Jester," Barry Home, once a free spirited cowboy, now an ex-convict, returns to the small town of Loomis. His return is scarcely a welcome one, least of all by the rancher whose testimony was vital in securing Barry's conviction. "Slow Bill" is the story of young Jim Legrange, who feels he can never live up to the success of his father, a millionaire rancher. He leaves home for an abandoned gold rush town, where he runs into Jack Rooney. Rooney, an old prospector, has a photograph of Jim's father in a place of honor, but he calls the man in the picture Slow Bill and says he was once his partner. And in "The Rock of Kiever," the best friend of Texas Ranger Charlie Stayn is killed during a raid. Charlie swears vengeance against the killers and defies the ranger code, heading into the Kiever Mountains to track them down.
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Author
Max Brand
Author · 184 books
Frederick Schiller Faust (see also Frederick Faust), aka Frank Austin, George Owen Baxter, Walter C Butler, George Challis, Evan Evans, Frederick Faust, John Frederick, Frederick Frost, David Manning, Peter Henry Morland Max Brand, one of America's most popular and prolific novelists and author of such enduring works as Destry Rides Again and the Doctor Kildare stories, died on the Italian front in 1944.
