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...

The romance story of a hearty well-known explorer, who finally, at the age of 62 crosses the Antarctic and the spinster who accompanies him on his journey to the Andes in 1895. Here we have a young Victorian woman’s unconventional romance with a man, who was already married, had various adventures, was disowned by her family, etc. So, what happened in between? Did their romance end when he left for his next expedition? Will his crazy wife ever die so that they can get marri...

Max Brand (1892–1944), war ein US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller und gilt als einer der wichtigsten und bekanntesten Western-Autoren des 20. Jahrhunderts. Zu Max Brands Klassikern gehört auch der hier vorliegende Roman „Die Unbezähmbaren” (1918, englischer Titel: „The Untamed”), der zu den besten Western aller Zeiten zählt. Der mysteriöse Dan Barry, genannt „Whistling Dan” ist ein wilder Draufgänger. Der junge Dan Barry ist mit allen Wassern gewaschen, doch dann tauchen plöt...

A train passenger is framed for murder, and a young man tries to help a young, newlywed couple but not everything is what is at first seems in this thriller. Whichever side of the law they’re on, the unforgettable characters in this tale will fight for what they believe... and to survive. Frederick Schiller Faust (1892-1944) was an American author best known for his thoughtful Westerns under the pen name Max Brand. Prolific in many genres, he wrote historical novels, detect...

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.

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Western. „Bad News for Bad Men” is just that for the Burwell clan when Jimmy Jones arrives in town to take over the Jasper Journal. Jones’s uncle has given him the small-town newspaper because Jimmy’s life so far has been divided into two equal halves: In the first twelve years you were a small child and a schoolboy. In the last twelve years you have tried to raise hell continually. Now, instead of being called a gunfighter, Jimmy can be called an editor. His uncle warns Ji...

Łódź. Ziemia Obiecana. 1938 rok. Świat rodzących się fortun i okrutnej biedy. W życiu Franciszka Brilke, człowieka wielu kultur i narodowości, pojawia się tajemnicza kobieta, Ewa. Za jej sprawą odmienia się życie wielu pozornie niezwiązanych ze sobą osób. Wkrótce świat opanowuje wojenne szaleństwo, które każe na nowo zdefiniować istotę człowieczeństwa. Europa nieuchronnie zmierza ku tragedii drugiej wojny światowej. Czy zakazana miłość ma szansę przetrwać w obliczu he...

Poradzisz sobie z wszelkimi trudnościami – finansowymi, w związku, zdrowotnymi.Boisz się, że nie dasz rady. Boisz się, że depresja nigdy nie minie, krzyki nigdy nie ustaną, ból nigdy nie zniknie. Czy to szare niebo kiedyś się rozpogodzi? Czy ten ciężar opuści kiedyś moje serce?Tak! Zbawienie jest dla Biblii tym, czym muzyka jazzowa dla Mardi Gras: czymś głośnym, odważnym i wszechobecnym. Pomyśl o starotestamentowej historii Józefa – wrzucony do studni przez swoich braci, sprz...

These are the legends of courageous people who conquered the vast expanses of the American Wild West. The heroes of Max Brand’s westerns are cowboys, gunfighters, sheriffs – the fearless conquerors of the Wild West, who made America their homeland and homeland. For example, the hero of the novel „The Night Horseman” – a brilliant scientist Randall Byrne, a man of remarkable intelligence but poor health, goes to the Wild West to gain strength, and unexpectedly becomes one of...

SERYJNY MORDERCA WG DEFINICJI DOPUSZCZA SIĘ TRZECH LUB WIĘCEJ MORDERSTW W ODDZIELNYCH EPIZODACH. SERYJNE MORDERSTWA SĄ POPEŁNIANE DLA PATOLOGICZNEJ ŻĄDZY ZUPEŁNEGO PANOWANIA NAD OFIARĄ.. Seryjni mordercy terroryzowali ulice polskich miast XX i XXI wieku. Dlaczego popełniali okrutne zbrodnie i nie czuli potem skruchy? Gdzie rodzi się zło i czy można mu zapobiec? CO KRYJE UMYSŁ MORDERCY? Skąd bierze się w człowieku bestia, zdolna do najokrutniejszych czynów? Oto historie ...

Opracował i podał do druku Thomas Strässle przy współpracy Margit Unser. Max Frisch (1911–1991) był jednym z czołowych twórców literatury niemieckiej XX wieku. Niedługo po przeprowadzce do Berlina zaczął prowadzić codzienne zapiski, które złożyły się na dzieło unikatowe w jego dorobku literackim. Autor zażądał jednak, by z uwagi na bardzo osobisty charakter notatki te opublikowano dopiero po dwudziestu latach od jego śmierci. Ideowy spadkobierca Bertolda Brechta, przy...

Seattle-born author who worked as a cowhand in California, attended Berkeley, joined then deserted the Canadian Army, and finally settled down to writing full-time. He was incredibly prolific and wrote numerous books under his birth name (Frederick Faust) and a variety of pseudonyms. Today he is best known for his work published as Max Brand, including the classic Western "Destry Rides Again" and his popular series Dr. Kildare. In "The Desert Pilot", Reverend Reginald Ingra...

Terry Rivers was the black sheep of an aristocratic Southern family. When he headed West, the Law was in hot pursuit. In Zander City he won respect with his whip, fists and gun. There he met the legendary Lost Wolf, a white man who’d been raised by the savage Cheyennes. Lost Wolf had turned out so crazy that the Cheyennes wouldn’t make him a chief even though he was their best fighter. Between this untamed white Indian and the runaway Southern aristocrat developed the stran...

The Stolen Stallion by Max Brand is one of the books in the Silvertip series. Wild horses ... evil men! Parade - a magnificent stallion worth twice his weight in cold cash. And many men had set out to capture this legendary prize. Some never returned. Some came back stony-broke. Others were ruined by desert heat and mountain winters. Only Silvertip, an honest man fast with his fists and quicker with his guns, can tame the magnificent stallion Parade, son of Brandy, king of ...

Tajemnice, morderstwa, terror.Cała prawda o sektach i technikach manipulacji stosowanych przez ich przywódców.  Kim był przywódca sekty narkosatanistów, która owijała drutem ciała swoich ofiar, aby potem móc z ich kręgosłupów robić magiczne naszyjniki?Jak Keith Raniere sprawił, że uczestniczki warsztatów samorozwoju zamieniły się w grupę seksualnych niewolnic, którym wypalano na ciele jego inicjały?W jaki sposób Jim Jones doprowadził ponad 900 swoich wyznawców do najwięk...

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...

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.