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Silvertip

by Max Brand

Master New York safecracker, “Taxi” Ivors, came to the town of Horseshoe Flat to avenge a friend’s murder. Immediately he ran afoul of Barry Christian, the outlaw genius who terrorized Horseshoe Flat just as he did the entire West. Taxi is marked for destruction—until he gains the friendship of Arizona Jim Silver. The legendary Silvertip has been on Christian’s trail for years. Always the renegade is just within Silvertip’s grasp, only to escape at the last moment. But now Christian is threatened by the strange partnership of Silvertip and Taxi—the brilliant lawman and the cunning criminal he has reformed.

Genres: Westerns

Paperback

First published January 1, 1943

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

[Kristen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Other kids had Batman and Superman for their hero's, Silvertip was mine. Who could help but love him and Parade, Frosty, and Taxi?

[John Young · Rating 5 out of 5]

Old Hero better than ever

I met Jim Silver when I was fourteen and locked into him right away
A larger than life hero after larger than life legendary villains he lived in my imagination for a long time
But rereading it 60 years later I realized how well the book was written and how good the characterizations are. Brand doesnt go overboard on authenticity but just dukes out a good story that keeps the pages turning and keeps you on the edge of your seat in a place where the good guys are exemplary and the bad ones are, well, villainous.

[Mike Grady · Rating 3 out of 5]

This entry into the Silvertip series delves into the meeting of Taxi and Silvertip and how their friendship evolves.

[Ronald · Rating 5 out of 5]

read some time in 1985