The Mountain Fugitive

by Max Brand

Raw frontier action is epitomized in Lee Porfilo. With a penchant for settling his problems with his fists, Porfilo is always in trouble. And trouble comes to stay when he beats a rich man's son. Now he has an enemy for life. Framed for murder and sentenced to the penitentiary, he is saved by Tex Cummins' small steel saw and heads for the mountains. As a mountain fugitive, he meets ravishing, red-haired Margaret O'Rourke, whom he renames Mike. She warns him that Cummins' contribution to his freedom wasn't all charity. And that prophesy comes true when Cummins shows him how to make money fast and easy. But there's good in Porfilo's soul and he'd rather go straight. Tired of running, he'd just as soon die facing his enemies head on than live life as an outlaw.

Genres: Westerns, Novels

300 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1994

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

[Peter Vanderhaak · Rating 5 out of 5]

Becoming a favorite author. Excitement but each book seems to have a moral.

[Gary · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very good story which I enjoyed very much. Max Brand has a writing style and a way with words. I couldn't stop going to the next chapter to see "what's next".

[Michael Roe · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was my first experience with Brand and I really enjoyed the story. Good character development and colorful descriptions. Still a die hard Louis L'amour fan but Brand brings a different perspective to the western genre.