Timber Line (Five Star Western S.) - Hardcover

Three of Brand's stories, restored from the author's original typescripts. Above the Law is a Western story which tells of an actress taken prisoner by the notorious bandit Black Jim. One Man Posse is one of five stories written in the ongoing saga of a character known only as Sleeper, a man with a great capacity for personal endurance.

These three stories by master of the genre, Max Brand, have been restored from their original typescripts and are presented here for the first time in book form. Opening the collection is "Above the Law, " a story about an actress from the East who finds herself alone and nearly penniless in the lawless West. In "One Man Posse, " a man with a reputation for laziness takes on a vicious adversary. The title story tells of Jerney, a man feared by all because of his bloody deeds. An Easterner who has come out West is mistaken for Jerney setting the stage for a case of mistaken identity that's about to turn deadly.