Flaming Fortune

by Max Brand

A trio of novellas, filled with adventure and unforgettable characters, includes "The Canon Coward," in which a tracker, who refuses to carry a gun and shuns violence, somehow earns the distinction of being one of the baddest outlaws around. Reprint.

292 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 2003

About the author

Frederick Schiller Faust (see also Frederick Faust), aka Frank Austin, George Owen Baxter, Walter C. Butler, George Challis, Evin Evan, Evan Evans, Frederick Faust, John Frederick, Frederick Frost, David Manning, Peter Henry Morland, Lee Bolt, Peter Dawson, Martin Dexter, Dennis Lawson, M.B., Hugh Owen, Nicholas Silver

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.

Reviews

[Roger Leihy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Unlike most of his usually excellent normal shoot-em-up Westerns, Faust wrote this and obviously all Speedy Westerns as pure rollicking entertainment - anyone reading them who does not understand this is obtuse. While presumably the novels date during the nineteenth century, this one includes the word ‘telephone’.