Don Diablo

by Max Brand

The adventures of Jim Tyler, an outlaw who has earned a reputation on both sides of the border for boldness and daring, are narrated in three related short novels collected here for the first time. In "Mountain Raiders", an American company hires Tyler to protect the gold they are mining in Mexico -- instead of paying $10,000 a month of protection money to the notorious bandit, El Tigre. In "Rawhide Bound", the infamous Miguel Cambista holds Tyler's friend prisoner, and in "The Trail of Death", many elements of Tyler's earlier adventures come together in a final confrontation.

271 pages, Hardcover

First published February 17, 2001

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.