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Smiling Charlie
Smiling Charlie
Author: Max Brand, Frederick Faust
Nobody could move a gun faster than Smiling Charlie -- except that on this day there was a difference.  The devil that was in me had made my eyes faster than human.  And while I went for my own gun, it seemed to me that Charlie's hand wasn't lightning no more, but just plain, slow lead. — And as his revolver came clear I pu...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780446903196
ISBN-10: 0446903191
Publication Date: 9/1980
Pages: 224
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Publisher: Warner Books
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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hardtack avatar reviewed Smiling Charlie on + 2837 more book reviews
Max Brand (actually Frederick Schiller Faust) wrote a lot of good westerns, but this one left me scratching my head. I especially wondered about the last third of the book, as it seemed to make no sense.

Frederick Schiller Faust had so many pen names I bet he had trouble remembering them all. And how many people know he wrote the Dr. Kildare books? In the last half of World War II he applied to become a war correspondent and, for him, that meant up front. While serving with American forces in Italy in 1944 he was killed while under artillery fire. Check out his page on Wikipedia.


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