One of the most prolific writers of all time, he wrote more than 500 novels and nearly 15 million words under the pen name of Max Brand and seventeen others. Alongside Zane Grey, the western section of any bookstore is usually packed with Max Brand titles. „The Jackson Trail” is another outstanding western that demands your attention. In it, Jesse Jackson is riding where the law feared to go... Packed with enough action and interesting twists to please even the most die-hard ...
Superstar pulpsmith Max Brand was best known for his Westerns, but his historical adventures rank among the best stories he ever wrote. He wrote somewhere around 12 or 13 historical swashbucklers not including the seven Tizzo stories. The complete tales of Tizzo the Firebrand contains the 7 stories. „The Great Betrayal” is one of it. The series is set in early 16th Century Italy. Luigi Falcone had taken in red haired street urchin Tizzo outside of the city of Perugia. Raised ...
„Gra na cztery” to współczesna powieść obyczajowa o dwóch skrzypaczkach z gdańskiej filharmonii, menadżerce kwartetu smyczkowego oraz dziennikarce kulturalnej. Każda z kobiet pragnie odnieść sukces i zdecydowana jest poświęcić dla niego naprawdę wiele. Czy jednak do celu zawsze należy iść po trupach? Życie nieustannie miesza bohaterkom szyki. Zazdrośni koledzy z pracy, toksyczne relacje z mężczyznami to ich chleb powszedni. Na dodatek zaczynają wychodzić na jaw pewne rodzinne...
His name was Jim Silver, but they called him Silvertip. Jim Silver, the man with tufts of silver hair over each temple, the man who sometimes looked like a horned devil in the moonlight, hungered for action as most men hunger for food. And he found plenty when bank robber Jim Lovell sought his protection – because, unknown to Silvertip, Lovell was packing a half-million dollars in stolen cash along with his Winchester. And the men he’d double-crossed had shot their way out of...
„The Face and the Doctor” is another short story by Frederick Schiller Faust (1892-1944) who was an American author known primarily for his thoughtful and literary westerns under the pen name Max Brand. This story filled with excitement, suspense, good guys and bad, and plot twists aplenty! Orphaned at an early age, Faust studied at the University of California, Berkeley. He became one of the most prolific writers of our time but abandoned writing at age fifty-one to become a...
Something natural or supernatural enters the soul of Andrew Creel, a commonplace and disaffected young man, and drives him into a swift game where death is a probability on the one side and love only a possibility on the other. Creel plays it to the end: an end unlike the end that seemed so sure when dusk fell on the garden of that charming mansion with its sinister residents who have taken up residence in the title’s Windon Manor after a bank failure wiped out their fortunes...
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...
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-...
A collection of three short exciting stories by Max Brand aka Federick Faust. Brand has been labeled „one of the top three Western novelists of all time” so western fans will be in for a treat. It includes „The Flaming Rider”, „Outlaw Buster” and „Sun and Sand”. Three western stories about men who appear to be lacking the intelligence and skills to survive on the frontier but are able to achieve success where others had failed. „Sun and Sand” is the story of a youth known onl...
Max Brand (Frederick Schiller Faust) is one of the greatest early Western writers who has been labeled „one of the top three Western novelists of all time” and „Speedy’s Bargain” is one of 9 „Speedy” stories that have seen print in various collections. „Speedy’s Bargain” features „Speedy,” Brand’s atypical western man of action who carries no gun and relies on his wits and psychological insights to stop crooks in their tracks. In it, an outlaw holds a family at gunpoint, thre...
They called him Speedy because he could outsmart bankers, outfox barkeeps, and outwit bounty hunters faster than any man alive. He arrived on an iron horse. The day he rode into Durfee, he was more than ready to use his skills to make a killing. To Speedy, Durfee didn’t look any different from a hundred other towns he’d seen before. There were fat bankers waiting for his smooth talk, and lovely young ladies ready to swoon over his smile and his guitar playing. But this time t...
Another Sleeper story, featuring Sleeper, a gunslinger turned horse-thief, from the collection „More Tales of the Wild West”. Six action-packed stories of the Old West, filled with unforgettable characters, includes „A Lucky Dog,” in which man’s best friend helps a would-be killer and thief find salvation, along with „A First Blooding,” „Inverness,” (aka „Sleeper Turns Horse-Thief”) and „Death in Alkali Flat.” In this story Sleeper is hired to break a horse and turns horse-th...
Renowned Western writer Max Brand does it again in the eminently enjoyable novel „Six Golden Angels”. 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 Again”. But in this work, we see Brand in a new role. A familiar situation in the story of the murder of a millionaire which is dismissed ...
O Wojtku z planety Uran to kosmiczna opowieść dla dzieci małych i dużych, od lat 4 do 100+. Jej siła i moc leży w prostocie i autentyczności, bo ta historia naprawdę się wydarzyła! Wszystko zaczęło się w wyobraźni ziemskiego chłopca o imieniu Antek, który opowiedział swoim rodzicom o nowym przyjacielu, Wojtku z planety Uran. Antek miał wtedy 5 lat, a Wojtek 150 lat, ale na planecie Uran to tyle samo, co na Ziemi. Chłopcy bardzo się polubili. Bawili się ziemskimi zabawkami, by...
„Z pamiętnika masażysty – człowiek zawsze kicha dwa razy” to druga część przygód dr Marcina, zwanego masażystą lub panem Marcinkiem. Nasz ulubieniec wraca z długich wakacji, by ponownie zmierzyć się z rzeczywistością. A jest z czym! Jego eks zostaje ponownie mamą, przyjaciel – szwagrem, syn – starszym bratem i każdy potrzebuje wsparcia. Po pomoc do Marcina przychodzą nie tylko zbolali pacjenci, ale także przyjaciele: znany i nieco sfochowany pisarz, zdolny dentysta i ordynato...
O Antku, który poleciał na Uran to kosmiczna opowieść dla dzieci małych i dużych! Nasza międzyplanetarna przygoda zaczyna się pewnego deszczowego dnia, gdy Antek, lat 9, wyrusza w swoją pierwszą podróż samolotem do słonecznej Kalifornii, a wtedy… Wtedy jego przyjaciel Wojtek z planety Uran teleportuje go do swojego statku kosmicznego. Antek poznaje planetę Uran, jej okolice, tajemnice i księżyce, a nawet urańską szkołę. Na Uranie nie ma wirusów ani zarazków, woda w oceanie je...
„Z pamiętnika masażysty - nic, co ludzkie nie jest mi już obce” to dziennik codzienny fizjoterapeuty Marcina, który choć ma stopień doktora i tak nazywany jest przez pacjentów masażystą. Względnie panem Marcinkiem… Marcin ma lat 35, lubi siebie oraz swoją pracę i bardzo kocha synka, Jerzyka, lat 5, którego wychowuje na zmianę ze swoją eks. Pacjenci nieustająco testują jego cierpliwość, ale on im wybacza i wszystkim pomaga. No chyba, że ktoś nie pozwala sobie pomóc… Marcin ma ...
Ludzie są na tyle szczęśliwi, na ile sobie pozwolą, powiedział kiedyś Abraham Lincoln. A Ty? Na ile sobie dzisiaj pozwolisz? Poznaj siedem barwnych opowieści i ich bohaterów – czasem odważnych, czasem mniej, ale zawsze dzielnych. Tutaj nikt nie czeka, aż ktoś spełni jego marzenia, nikt nie udaje Śpiącej Królewny, ani jej wybawiciela, Księcia, tylko sam szuka swojego szczęśliwego zakończenia. Wytrwale, dzień po dniu, i nie zawsze według sztywnego scenariusza. Bo życie… lub...
Another great tale by Frederick Schiller Faust who was an American author known primarily for his thoughtful and literary westerns under the pen name Max Brand! The Kid was a lawman’s worst nightmare. A fearsome gun-for-hire, he was a legend written in blood and carved in the tombstones of the men he killed. But this time he was facing an old enemy from his twisted past – a man who had survived his bullet and lived for vengeance. This story filled with excitement, suspense, g...
The name Max Brand is synonymous with great adventure and quality. Good men gone bad fill the pages of this Western trio, with stories of outlaws, horse thieves and a rowdy ranch hand who turns to stage robbery. This book contains three short novelettes: „The Nighthawk Trail”, „Vamp’s Bandit” and the title story, „Rifle Pass”. In „Rifle Pass”, ageing Sheriff Thomas Weller has one major problem: his son Dick Weller. Dick cannot seem to apply himself to anything. In a desperate...
This collection includes three short novels from „one of the top three Western novelists of all time” Max Brand (Frederick Faust). The stories here are character studies of outlaws, the lives they lead and the lies and myths that spring up about them. The title novel, „Peter Blue”, is an excellent character study. Blue, wounded in a gunfight, has lost the use of his gun hand and is desperately trying to learn to shoot with his left hand before his enemies realize how vulnerab...
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...
This great book by Max Brand tells the story of honest, hard working Phil Slader, the son of a notorious murdering outlaw, who had sworn not to follow the footsteps of his father, a feared and hated gunman. Phil was adopted by the man who put a bullet in his father’s heart. Watched and expected every day to explode into the lawless ways of his father, young Phil patiently waits to come of age to leave the servitude of his father’s killer and find the truth of his death. Could...
After ten years of wandering, during which he has lived the life of a gambler and learned the ways of devious men, Tom Keene returns home, only to find his father alone and dying. Old John Keene’s sole legacy to his son is a Bible, so with his father’s passing, Tom renounces his selfish, worthless past and sets out to preach to others that the greatest happiness is born of trust in one another. But Tom Keene’s good intentions are about to cost him more than he knows... Tom is...
