The Dark Brand

Not as good as The Gun Trail but still pretty damn good.......more

H.A. DeRosso's western novel THE DARK BRAND (1963) reminded me a lot of Davis Grubb's West Virginia noir classic THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER. In DARK BRAND, our hero Dave Driscoll is a cattle rustler who is captured by a villainous lawman named Longstreet. Longstreet loves to torture his inmates to find......more

I had read a review (I think in Paperback Warrior) that the plot of this book could have been transfered from the Wild West to a modern city without changing anything significant--it's very much a hard-boiled crime novel. It does work quite well as a Western (Westerns and hard-boiled crime stories a......more

The Night of the Hunter Goes West Whether he realized it or not, H.A. DeRosso’s western THE DARK BRAND shares some plot similarities with Davis Grubbs classic noir novel THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER. Nevertheless, this tidy little horse opera generates a lot of suspense and violence. The hero Dave Driscol......more