The Black Rider

By Max Brand

One of Max Brand's greatest gifts as a storyteller was his ability to create unforgettable, larger-than-life characters. In The Black Rider  a Navajo named Taki is fluent in four languages, a skilled knife-thrower, a consummate horseman, and can outwit any opponent. But a woman named Lucia d'Arquista will test him to his limits...

• Language: English
• Publisher: Reading Essentials
• Release date: Feb 26, 2020
• ISBN: 9781773238456

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.