Arizona Jim Silver meets his match in Barry Christian, a dangerous and cunning renegade who disregards all laws except the ones he himself imposes on helpless men and women
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.
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.