The last showdown

by Max Brand

Hardcover in dust jacket, FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM (so stated on copyright page) Hardcover, 1975 by Max Brand. Orange cloth, First Book publication (originally published in magazine format by Street Smith in 1929.) Jacket design by Ra Diehl. From the dj "The Duster's whole life had been on long game with the law. He had been tried and acquittd five times for robbery, and no one knew the names of all the famous gunmen he had dropped or laid away for repairs of some sort. He and his partner Hector Mannes had done a hundred jobs together until they walked into the trap set for them at an Idaho bank."

Genres: Westerns

251 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1975

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

[Liv · Rating 3 out of 5]

den här var den enda boken på engelska på vårt hostel i wien, så fick bli som det blev. hade så låga förväntningar haha, men den var typ helt okej? ganska spännande mot slutet? och bara lite mysigt att läsa ett westernäventyr? jag ska ju bli cowboy så det här passar perfekt in. the duster var också en spännande o ändå lite komplex karaktär på vissa sätt? men det var också bara en bok, inget revolutionerande liksom

[Charles · Rating 5 out of 5]

Max Brand was an excellent storyteller. This one is told from the point of view of Baldy, an honest man who becomes a friend of a notorious outlaw called The Duster. Duster comes to the town of Christmas, supposedly to bury a friend and to go straight. But there's much more to the story. Still, the Duster makes friends and it turns out his intentions to go straight are honorable. Very good story, although there's a lot of telling and not as much showing. But the characters are wonderful and it held my interest.

[Floyd · Rating 4 out of 5]

A different kind f western fore sure