This is a story of a wild horse who many said could not be caught or broken, and the man who set out to prove them wrong. Alcatraz is a wild horse and Brand alternates the narrative between the people struggling to hold onto a ranch and the horse as he breaks from a cruel master and learns to survive on the plains. This is one of the great Western novels. Max Brand’s style of writing is classic western, heroes and villains, good guys and bad guys, wide open country. Max Bra...

Dan Barry is found by a cattleman footloose and wandering in the desert. He is taken in by the man and cared for by his lovely daughter. But the course of love doesn’t run smoothly in this classic western … Whistlin’ Dan Berry is one of the most interesting characters in Western fiction. Easy going, Berry proves absolutely unforgiving when physically assaulted by a feared, vicious outlaw, Jim Silent. Seemingly without any emotions, Whistlin’ Dan is relentless in his vengefu...

Jimmy Kildare met from the hospital every day and arrived at Tom McGuire’s lounge on the avenue. He always drank two mugs of beer. But one from the other, there should be a brain at the fingertips all day long, but two beers are not too far between man and themselves, if it has bumps on shoulders, and Jimmy Kildare had.

Rascal, rogue, and gambler, Ben Connor was about to meet his match... Ben Connor liked fine clothes, lovely ladies and smooth-drinking liquor. But what he liked most was a horse that won races. The moment he saw an Eden Gray run, he knew he had laid eyes on the finest piece of horseflesh ever to win a race... or make a gambler’s dream come true. So why not find the reclusive deaf mute who owns the Eden Gray, buy one, enter it in races and watch his fortune grow? The plans s...

From the popular author of „Destry Rides Again” comes an exciting saga of adventure, romance, honor, and danger, in the Old West. Les Tarron was just a boy when five strangers rode into his life and changed it forever. Years later – jailed, hunted and betrayed – Les felt the hatred burning inside him like a fever and set out, determinedance and death. The plot is well constructed with well drawn subsidiary characters and provides a number of interesting twists. Brand does k...

Two gunslingers known as Jingo and the Parson form a two-man army in Tower Creek to deal with the dangerous Rankin brothers in a conflict over a dishonest poker game. Wally Rankin, a gambler, is one of the players and because he is losing to Jingo, resorts to marking the cards. Jingo spots the action and accuses Wally Rankin of cheating. In the ensuing gun fight, Wally is shot in both shoulders. Subsequently, the sheriff advices Jingo that Wally’s older brother will probabl...

One of Max Brand’s worth reading as an alternative to his western stories. Michael Clovelly might not have been the greatest swordsman ever to come to London town during the reign of the Merry Monarch, Charles the Second, but if a better man ever wielded a blade, he had not yet stepped forth to claim the distinction. Seeking gold with which to elevate his beggarly fortunes, Clovelly chances to encounter a bully, and his fierce sword work brings him to the attention of Lord Te...

If you enjoy a fast moving western dealing with vengeance and well-deserved payback, you’ll like „Happy Jack” (1936) by Max Brand. One bullet was all it took to change Jack Anderson from a carefree boy into a hunted man. The plot is well constructed with well drawn subsidiary characters and provides a number of interesting twists and turns. The journey is the entertaining part. Highly recommended, especially for those who love the Old Western genre. No pulp writer was more pr...

„Bad News for Bad Men” is an excellent classic story by the incomparable Max Brand (Frederick Faust). Great read with Max’s leading off to unexpected places with characters you come to know personally. Max leads the reader to characters bigger than life, they come to life as people we wish we knew personally. People who deal with life by taking an active part instead of just observing as it passes by. Brand along with Zane Grey and Louis L’Amour form the holy trinity of weste...

Max Brand is generally regarded as the author of superior westerns like his „Destry Rides Again”, but Brand also wrote the „Dr. Kildare” series and numerous detective stories as well. Never before published in book form, this 1937 police procedural by veteran Brand introduces New York police detectives Campbell and O’Rourke. The pair investigate the apparent suicide of a philanthropist David Barry who was about to be accused of bribery and corruption prior to his death. Angus...

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Arcyważny i niemający precedensu na polskim rynku wydawniczym tom dzieł zebranych Maxa Blechera – artysty, który dzięki intensywności tego, co stworzył w trakcie niespełna trzydziestoletniego życia zapisał się jako jeden z najwybitniejszych pisarzy rumuńskich XX w. i jeden z najważniejszych twórców literatury europejskiej swoich czasów.Niebywałe połączenie surrealnej wyobraźni, wyrafinowanego, poetyckiego języka i okrutnej precyzji w opisie doświadczenia choroby i ciele...

Flynn, jeden z czterech braci Winslow, był milczącym przystojniakiem o stoickim usposobieniu. Roztaczał wokół siebie aurę tajemnicy. Uwielbiał jeździć harleyem, co dodawało mu niepokojącego uroku. Zawsze wyglądał olśniewająco, nawet po czterdziestu ośmiu godzinach szalonej pijackiej imprezy w Vegas urządzonej z okazji ożenku jego najmłodszego brata. Tamtego dnia właściwie nie chciał w niej brać udziału - od szaleństw, klubów ze striptizem i kasyn od zawsze wolał...

Młody Eryk Deryło i Zagadkowi Agenci mierzą się z sekretem Nawiedzonego Lasu!PIĄTY PORYWAJĄCY TOM SERII KSIĄŻEK DLA DZIECI MAKSA CZORNYJA, AUTORA BESTSELLEROWYCH KRYMINAŁÓW.Zagadkowi Agenci i Toska wyruszają z panem Deryło na biwak. W górskiej głuszy zbaczają w boczną drogę, na której podąża za nimi... upiorny rowerzysta. W pewnym momencie kolarz dosłownie rozpływa się w powietrzu.Nim podróżnicy zdołają otrząsnąć się z szoku, przegrzany silnik starego citröena odmawia posłusz...

Staying alive is worth a thousand dollars a day to Oliver Wilton. That’s what he’s paying Lew Sherry and Pete Long as hired guns to keep him healthy. And after riding the range, the money looks more than just a little inviting. But before Sherry and Long can pocket their first wages, Wilton is murdered. And town men were never so sad to see their boss take a bullet in the brain as Sherry and Long. Soon the pair are riding a vengeance trail – out to catch the low-down killer w...

After graduating from medical school, Dr. James Kildar returns to his small hometown where his proud parents Stephen and Martha Kildar and childhood friend Alice Raymond expect him to join his father in his medical practice. However, he is more ambitious, although he is not sure what he wants to do. He recruited as an intern at New York Hospital.

Jimmy Kildare used to get away from the hospital every afternoon and go over to Tom McGuire’s saloon on the avenue. He always drank two beers. An interne in the accident room has to have the brains in his fingertips in good order all day long, but two beers don’t get very far between a man and himself if he has a bit of head on his shoulders, and Jimmy Kildare had.

«This is the story of the toughest barn in the Wild West, the most reliable of all that has ever lived. Wherever Roniki Dawn goes, trouble is sure to follow. So Dun was not surprised when he went to Twin Springs and ended up in the middle of a deadly war between two rival families».

Jedna z najlepszych książek o wojnie w Korei, jakie kiedykolwiek napisano „Wyśmienita opowieść pióra mistrza tego gatunku” – „Daily Mail” „Wnikliwa i godna podziwu” – „The New York Times” Inwazja komunistycznej Korei Północnej na Koreę Południową w czerwcu 1950 roku rozpoczęła jedną z najkrwawszych odsłon powojennej historii świata. Konflikt skutkował poważnymi zmianami geopolitycznymi: podziałem na dwa państwa koreańskie, zwiększeniem roli Stanów Zjednoczonych jako lid...

No matter what name Frederick Schiller Faust was writing under, it’s sure to be a tightly written action packed book and „Outlaw’s Code” is no exception. Lawrence Grey is called El Diablo – the devil – though he’s fair-haired and has a boyish grin. But no jail can hold him, and some swear that he is the fastest gun alive. Yet everyone has Grey pegged as a goner when he agrees to ride to Mexico to track down Johnny Ray, a man who has been missing for fifteen years. There’s a r...

One of the greatest western authors of all time, superstar pulpsmith Max Brand, the pen name of Frederick Faust, was an incredibly proficient author who wrote many books, stories, and even poetry. His Westerns were always different, with complex plots and characters, and uncertain endings... But his historical adventures rank among the best stories he ever wrote. These seven stories of 16th Century Italian Renaissance swashbuckling swordsman Tizzo are tightly-plotted, action-...

One of the greatest western authors of all time, superstar pulpsmith Max Brand, the pen name of Frederick Faust, was an incredibly proficient author who wrote many books, stories, and even poetry. Also, he wrote somewhere around 12 or 13 historical swashbucklers not including the seven Tizzo stories. Faust spent time in Italy every year and soaked up the atmosphere and history. The Tizzo stories came out of his Italian sojourn. The complete tales of Tizzo contains the followi...

Cześć, tu Amundsen! Roald Amundsen.Są miejsca, dokąd większość ludzi nie wybrałaby się za żadne skarby. Jednymi z nich są bieguny Ziemi. Ja zrobiłem wszystko by się na nie dostać, a co więcej, by uczynić to jako pierwszy człowiek w historii.Nie byłem jedyny. W pewnym momencie moja rywalizacja z ekspedycją Roberta Scotta przyciągnęła uwagę całego świata. Jak myślicie, komu udało się wygrać? Możecie obstawiać.Jesteście gotowi udać się ze mną tam, gdzie temperatura spada 50...

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