Black Jack

By Max Brand

Book Overview

Black Jack by Max Brand tire to the life of a country gentleman. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671808796
• ISBN13: 9780671808792
• Release Date: January 1976
• Publisher: Pocket Books
• Length: 201 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Enjoyable Yarn

I like Max Brand's stories over most other Western writers because he sidesteps page after page of monotonous action and substitutes the inner thoughts and emotions of his characters. As we get to know them we start to worry over their fate. If that is the kind of story you like, then, you are in luck here.

Torn between two worlds

Terry Hollis was the son of a notorious outlaw named Black Jack. His father was murdered and Terry was raised from infancy by the women who loved his father. The question throughout the book was whether young Hollis would go straight or follow in his father's footsteps. This story is not as fast-paced as the others, but an element of tenseness carries throughout the story. It is a well-written and enjoyable character study.