Max Brand

Way of the Lawless Max Brand

"A good general," Allister was fond of saying, "plans in two ways: for an absolute victory and for an absolute defeat. The one enables him to squeeze the last ounce of success out of a triumph; the other keeps a failure from turning into a catastrophe." Andrew Lanning has been raised by his Uncle Jasper to know how to shoot just like the gunmen of the days when the West was a little younger and wilder. However, Andrew is a bit too gentle and soft. Then one day he is confronted, and takes an adversary down with one punch. Thinking he has killed the man, he runs. But when he is being hunted by a posse, and realizes they are not playing fair, he kills the leader, and thus begins his life as a desperado ..."Way of the Lawless" is a classic, thrilling Western novel by the legendary Max Brand, master of the genre.