The Blue Jay

By Max Brand and Karl Wurf

If Randal could make his ranch pay, he stood to inherit his grandfather’s fortune. But a cattle-rustling band of ranch-hands were robbing him blind, and he had to do something to stop them. He sent for Kitchin, the toughest man he knew—the man he had once sent to Fulsom Penitentiary.

Even though Kitchin would as soon break an hombre in two with his bare hands as shoot him, even with the offer of a fabulous regard, Kitchin wasn’t sure he’d live long enough to collect.

He didn’t know he had an ace up his sleeve—Pepillo, the Mexican kid they called “Blue Jay.”

• Language: English
• Publisher: Wildside Press
• Release date: Jan 25, 2021
• ISBN: 9781479456529

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.