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The Fugitive's Mission: A Western Trio
Book by Brand, Max, Brand
- GenresWesterns
400 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1997
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Max Brand
1,852 books138 followersFrederick 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.
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.
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April 13, 2023
Apr 13, 1030am ~~ Review asap.
1245pm ~~ I was not at all thrilled with the last Max Brand book I read, Oath Of Office. So I was hoping for a return to decency with this book and I was not disappointed. I am even going to add it to the Zapata Reading Club pile so that Marco can 'read' it too.
This is a 1997 edition of three stories Brand wrote many years ago for the western serial magazines. I liked how each story came with a couple of paragraphs of history from the editor: date of original publication, the way the stories were changed from the original for the magazines but not for this book, and other interesting bits.
The title story was from 1922 and had to do with Bill Rafferty, a man who is freshly out of prison when we meet him. But can he keep himself out of trouble or is he heading right back to it? The events that happen at Jasperville will decide his fate.
The Strange Ride Of Perry Woodstock begins when an owl flies low past a bunkhouse door, waking our hero Perry. He goes outside, restless and wondering why he feels so nervous. He sees someone down in the meadow with the horses, someone who has no right to be there. What happens when Perry confronts this person? I liked this 1933 story very much, and when I do my review update Someday after Marco and I are finished with the book, I will mention something I wondered at while reading. Sorry to be coy, but I am trying to be extra careful not to say too much and spoil anything for my telephone audience, just in case he reads this review.
Finally my favorite story of the book: Reata, also from 1933. Not quite the typical Brand hero, Reata does have some of what I have come to expect in such a man. Great talent at certain things and brains that he knows how to use. But he is a con artist and pickpocket. What trouble will he get into? Will meeting the Gypsies redeem him or make his life more complicated? This story is the main reason I want Marco to hear the book, because at the moment we are watching a Spanish language soap opera about Gypsies on YouTube. I watch a chapter in the evening during my dinner, he watches the same chapter the next morning during his breakfast and we compare notes on our daily phone calls. Just another way we have to maintain our togetherness while we are living in different countries. Anyway, I figured that Reata going to a Gypsy camp was a sign from the Book Universe that should not be ignored. lol
As I said, I will update this review after the Zapata Reading Club finishes with the book. That might be sooner than we all think. It is going to be Marco's turn to pick the next book and we are just a couple of Book Days away from finishing our current read!
1245pm ~~ I was not at all thrilled with the last Max Brand book I read, Oath Of Office. So I was hoping for a return to decency with this book and I was not disappointed. I am even going to add it to the Zapata Reading Club pile so that Marco can 'read' it too.
This is a 1997 edition of three stories Brand wrote many years ago for the western serial magazines. I liked how each story came with a couple of paragraphs of history from the editor: date of original publication, the way the stories were changed from the original for the magazines but not for this book, and other interesting bits.
The title story was from 1922 and had to do with Bill Rafferty, a man who is freshly out of prison when we meet him. But can he keep himself out of trouble or is he heading right back to it? The events that happen at Jasperville will decide his fate.
The Strange Ride Of Perry Woodstock begins when an owl flies low past a bunkhouse door, waking our hero Perry. He goes outside, restless and wondering why he feels so nervous. He sees someone down in the meadow with the horses, someone who has no right to be there. What happens when Perry confronts this person? I liked this 1933 story very much, and when I do my review update Someday after Marco and I are finished with the book, I will mention something I wondered at while reading. Sorry to be coy, but I am trying to be extra careful not to say too much and spoil anything for my telephone audience, just in case he reads this review.
Finally my favorite story of the book: Reata, also from 1933. Not quite the typical Brand hero, Reata does have some of what I have come to expect in such a man. Great talent at certain things and brains that he knows how to use. But he is a con artist and pickpocket. What trouble will he get into? Will meeting the Gypsies redeem him or make his life more complicated? This story is the main reason I want Marco to hear the book, because at the moment we are watching a Spanish language soap opera about Gypsies on YouTube. I watch a chapter in the evening during my dinner, he watches the same chapter the next morning during his breakfast and we compare notes on our daily phone calls. Just another way we have to maintain our togetherness while we are living in different countries. Anyway, I figured that Reata going to a Gypsy camp was a sign from the Book Universe that should not be ignored. lol
As I said, I will update this review after the Zapata Reading Club finishes with the book. That might be sooner than we all think. It is going to be Marco's turn to pick the next book and we are just a couple of Book Days away from finishing our current read!
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