Torturous Trek, Max Brand
Torturous Trek, Max Brand
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Torturous Trek

Author: Max Brand

Narrator: Traber Burns

Unabridged: 7 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/01/2018

Categories: Fiction, Western

Synopsis

On a cold, gusty night in Circle City, Alaska, Sammy Day walks into Nagle’s Bar. He is only twenty-two, but he has been on his own for ten years. He has worked cattle from Montana to Chihuahua, but a little “accident” at a poker table in Montana sent him on a forced march to Alaska to avoid a posse. He is down to his last fifty cents.

About Max Brand

Max Brand® (1892–1944) is the best-known pen name of widely acclaimed author Frederick Faust, creator of Destry, Dr. Kildare, and other beloved fictional characters. Orphaned at an early age, he studied at the University of California, Berkeley. He became one of the most prolific writers of our time but abandoned writing at age fifty-one to become a war correspondent in World War II, where he was killed while serving in Italy.

About Traber Burns

Traber Burns worked for thirty-five years in regional theater, including the New York, Oregon, and Alabama Shakespeare festivals. He also spent five years in Los Angeles appearing in many television productions and commercials, including Lost, Close to Home, Without a Trace, Boston Legal, Grey’s Anatomy, Cold Case, Gilmore Girls, and others.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Malachi on February 21, 2022

Well written and interesting, but the characters were rough, bad men who held no fear of God or thought much of murder and the like, giving the whole story an overall darker feel.......more

Goodreads review by Steven on January 23, 2021

Okay, okay. Like all the other Westerns I've read lately, this one was predictable from the beginning. However, I'm a sucker for a dog story, and this one kinda turned into that about a third of the way in. Sammy Day, aka Joker, goes to Alaska to escape his past and for reasons I don't quite underst......more

Goodreads review by Marty on November 06, 2024

Traber Burns is one of my favourite narrators, and he does a great job for Audible with this rough tale of a man on the run from the law in Arizona, trying to carve out a hard new existence in bitter Alaska. This one is a mostly dreary tale, as life is hard, our characters are mean, and the language......more

Goodreads review by John on May 27, 2021

It was an ok western but wanted more......more

Quotes

“The prolific Shakespeare of the western range.” Kirkus Reviews, praise for the author

“The name Max Brand is synonymous with Western novels.” Booklist, praise for the author

“Brand practices his art to something like perfection.” New York Times, praise for the author

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