Max Brand

Black Jack Max Brand

Black Jack Hollis is a gunfighter who is shot dead in the street, and spinster Elizabeth Cornish takes his baby to raise. Elizabeth bet her selfish brother Vance that she could raise Hollis's son to be an honest man - the environment and not the blood determines a character. For 25 years, Terry Colby has been sheltered and raised by the hard-working Elizabeth to believe he is the last of the Colbys, a fine old Virginia family. However, before the evening of Terry's 25th birthday, the greedy Vance sets events in motion that endanger everything Elizabeth has been working for ..."Black Jack" is a classic Western by Max Brand (Frederick Schiller Faust), one of America's most popular and prolific novelists, and author of such enduring works as "Destry Rides Again" and the Doctor Kildare stories.