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Luck
Pierre Ryder has been forged by the sternest of frontier Jesuits for the hard life of a missionary priest in the frozen wastes of the Far North. Although a novice short of his vows, he is a young David, mighty in faith and learning, able to ride any horse, to run a hundred miles a day behind a dog-team, to fight skillfully, and to shoot unerringly. Yet he remains gentle and unaffected, his thoughts as clear as spring water.
Into this life a thunderbolt a letter from his father, long thought dead, who lies dying of a bullet wound. Ignoring the pleas of the good priests, Pierre rides at once to avenge his father, into a life and a country far different from all he has ever known. He takes only the cross of Meilan, great in blessing and great in burden. When he meets Jacqueline Boone—Jack—his life and hers are changed forever. What he encounters he could not foresee, in depths of evil and betrayal and the mystery of the female heart.
Luck , like many of Max Brand’s works, originally appeared in serial form. It was the first installment in the life of one of his finest and most memorable tragic heroines. This first authentic book length publication restores important material and conforms to the author’s intentions.
Into this life a thunderbolt a letter from his father, long thought dead, who lies dying of a bullet wound. Ignoring the pleas of the good priests, Pierre rides at once to avenge his father, into a life and a country far different from all he has ever known. He takes only the cross of Meilan, great in blessing and great in burden. When he meets Jacqueline Boone—Jack—his life and hers are changed forever. What he encounters he could not foresee, in depths of evil and betrayal and the mystery of the female heart.
Luck , like many of Max Brand’s works, originally appeared in serial form. It was the first installment in the life of one of his finest and most memorable tragic heroines. This first authentic book length publication restores important material and conforms to the author’s intentions.
- GenresWesterns
202 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1997
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Max Brand
1,823 books135 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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June 12, 2019
A Max Brand Western Adventure
MB. has. penned a western adventure that begins with yhe death of the father if a Jesuit Priest. The young man is not a stranger to death, but he is a stranger to the death and destruction he encounters as he hunts for his fathers killers. This is an excellent read for the genre.....DEHS
MB. has. penned a western adventure that begins with yhe death of the father if a Jesuit Priest. The young man is not a stranger to death, but he is a stranger to the death and destruction he encounters as he hunts for his fathers killers. This is an excellent read for the genre.....DEHS
February 17, 2019
Pierre is perfect; his magic cross gives him good luck but his nearest and dearest suffer bad luck. Give cross to tomboy Jack for next book and she gets magic.
January 31, 2021
Max Brand was a favorite of my youth. Max Brand trying his hand at a weird sort of Mills and Boone romance. The second half of book reads horribly. I wish I hadn't read this book.
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