The fighting four. By Max Brand. (1948)

The fighting four. By Max Brand

Hardcover, shelf worn, and lean on spine, marks, and minor tanning. Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton, GB, 1948

Jim Silver, the man with tufts of silver hair over each temple, the man who sometimes looked like a horned devil in the moonlight, hungered for action as most men hunger for food. His great horse, Parade, and his wolf, Frosty, who obeyed nothing but the wild instincts of his breed and the soft commands of Silvertip, were part of the legend of the West.

But when the Elkdale bank was robbed of half a million dollars, while Oliver Wayland, the teller, stood by with his hands above his head, Silvertip found out about it not from Wayland, but from one of the four robbers, the one who escaped with the cash. when the three criminals shot their way out of jail and closed in on Silvertip, Wayland, the money, and their double-crossing partner, in the canyons of Iron Mountain, enough hard-riding, bullet-slinging action exploded to satisfy even Silvertip.

"The tempting bait of half a million drew those desperadoes, The Fighting Four, to the First National Bank at Elkdale. They got away with the money, but Oliver Wayland, though peace-loving and no gunman, was on their track, urged on by the thought of his hero, the great Jim Silver, who would surely prefer death to failure

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