The Mountain Fugitive

Raw frontier action is epitomized in Lee Porfilo. With a penchant for settling his problems with his fists, Porfilo is always in trouble. And trouble comes to stay when he beats a rich man's son. Now he has an enemy for life. Framed for murder and sentenced to the penitentiary, he is saved by Tex Cummins' small steel saw and heads for the mountains.

As a mountain fugitive, he meets ravishing, red-haired Margaret O'Rourke, whom he renames Mike. She warns him that Cummins' contribution to his freedom wasn't all charity. And that prophesy comes true when Cummins shows him how to make money fast and easy. But there's good in Porfilo's soul and he'd rather go straight. Tired of running, he'd just as soon die facing his enemies head on than live life as an outlaw.

©1994 Max Brand (P)2007 Brilliance Audio, Inc.

Read this one on paper first

This book is best if you read it. Once you have read it, this is a good book to listen to. The narrator is not the best for this particular story in my opinion, but it is an excellent story. This book contains some of the best fight scenes I have ever read/listened to. Better than any L’amour (I have read them all). I read this book as a teen. So did my father when he was a teen. Epic fist-fight scenes.

-Talon J. Reed, Esq.

Excellent again!

Excellent "again," 25 years after the first time listening to this excellent yarn! No wonder Frederick W. Faust aka Max Brand became a millionaire wordsmith even in the 1930's. An admirable talent to the end: He volunteered to be a WWII war correspondent in Italy. On what was to be his last day on earth, he took shrapnel but he told the medic to pass him by and instead tend to the younger soldiers (Frederick/Max was 50). He died that night. What a character he was who created so many Leon Porfolos and other unforgettable characters like Dr. Kildare and Destry. Estimated 25 million published words! Shane Reedl