Fire Brain

by Max Brand

When Peter Gresham must leave Amity to pursue his brother's killer, he appoints Sherburn, a drifter, to keep the peace until he returns

Genres: Westerns

391 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1925

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

[Kevin · Rating 5 out of 5]

Surprisingly great! The language. The human insights. The melodrama. The Western pulpiness. Written 100 years ago, it felt fresh and new.
I read this as sort of a companion piece to Stephen King's "The Dead Zone" in which the hero uses this book to help tutor a high school jock in reading. I figured if King liked it enough to name-check, it must be significant for him, and now I know why. It's filled with that somewhat formal, old world cowboy speak that shows up in his Dark Tower series. Roland would have been right at home in "Fire Brain."