Black Jack

Black Jack is a grand western adventure story told by a masterful story teller Max Brand. I shall give a more detailed review tomorrow. Enjoy and Be Blessed. Diamond......more

Blood may be thicker than water but this doesn't always protect it from the mortal sin of greed. Elizabeth Cornish takes an orphaned baby under her wing and vows to her brother Vince that she would make a good and decent man out of this boy with an outlaw father. For twenty-four years, Terry Colby t......more

Listened to the audiobook. I liked it. Didn't realize it was so old (I don't have the summaries available to review while I'm driving) and the old-fashioned formal style was a bit agonizing. (e.g. The face of Terry.... He grabbed the arm of Elizabeth....) I kept revising the sentences in my head as......more

This book annoyed me; it was so different from any Max Brand book I had read before. In the first three chapters, I almost put the book aside, because the story seemed obvious, but it turned out that I was wrong, and the book took some twists and turns I hadn't expected, but it kept leading me back......more

A classic by one of the Masters I found this book and couldn't put it down. The old western novels were the best. Max Brand knew how to tell a story, twist and turns when you thought the story was going one way it folded.back on itself to another avenue. Even though there was intrigue there was a sen......more