The friendship of Red Harrigan and Black MacTee is legendary in the Old West -- until they both fall in love with Kate Malone in "The Blackness of MacTee." In "The Gauntlet, " wastrel Joseph Stillwater Larrimee has struck it rich and is on his way to exchange his gold for currency when he comes upon a small woman's gauntlet. Arriving in town, he learns that a woman who could only be his lady of the gauntlet has passed through town surrounded by a gang of tough-looking men.
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It has been said that Max Brand, the pen name of Frederick Faust, may have reached more people in more ways than any other writer. Besides westerns, he wrote crime fiction, fantasy, sci-fi, and as the creator of Dr. Kildare, medical romance. And, for the last 75 years, unpublished, resurrected, or restored Max Brand stories have continued to appear at the rate of one every four months. Not bad for a man who gave up a booming career at age 51 to serve as a World War II war correspondent only to be killed in action. This latest collection of resurrected pieces features three short novels, previously published only in periodicals: The Blackness of MacTee, which first appeared as Black Thunder in 1933; King of Rats, also published in 1933 as Reata's Desert Ride, under the name of George Owen Baxter; and The Gauntlet, which appeared under the Baxter name in 1921. These vintage Brands tell classic tales of frontier adventure in which honor shines, love is true, and virtue is always rewarded. Budd Arthur
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The Gauntlet provides the reader with another excellent selection of novellas from Max Brand (Frederick Faust). There's is quite simply no western writer like him and this collection shows why.
The Blackness of MacTee is as charming and riveting a love story as one is likely to find. Two friends, who would gladly die for each other, turn murderous over winning the hand of one fair maiden who has admitted she loves one of them, but won't say which for fear of causing harm to the other. Sound like a Western? No. But, believe me it is, with much hard riding, fist fights and some detective work thrown in. Part silly, loads of fun. And impossible to put down. King Of Rats is another of the immortal Reata series which mirrors the myth of Hercules. Reata must steal a horse to flush out the villain Pop Dickerman wants him to kill. With a couple of hapless cronies along for the ride, this is another one which defies the reader to stop reading. Believe me, you won't The title novella, The Gauntlet, is a twisted take on Cinderella. Our intrepid hero has been slaving away in his mine, looking for gold. Now, with his fortune in hand, it's easy street. Until he finds a woman's glove in the road on the way to town. Being alone for so long, he immediately conjures an image of who wore the glove and falls in love with this imaginary female. So much so that he must find her. And he'll risk everything to do so. Anyone unfamiliar with the work of Max Brand will probably be surprised at the content of these stories. Well, this is what Brand does, and he does it better than anyone. You never know quite what to expect when you pick up a Brand book. But one thing you should never expect is to be disappointed. The Gauntlet is one of 80 or so (so far) titles from Leisure Books and having read more than twenty of them myself to date, I have not been disappointed. Brand was one of the all-time best. Not only of Western fiction. He wrote well in just about every genre there is. Totally unique and original at a time when formula fiction was king. And he writes with style and language as fresh today and when the stories first appeared. A timeless genius who will always have an audience. I strongly recommend The Gauntlet or any of the other Leisure offerings. They are simply that good.
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