Regular price: $19.95

Membership details Membership details
  • A 30-day trial plus your first audiobook, free.
  • 1 credit/month after trial – good for any book, any price.
  • Easy exchanges – swap any book you don’t love.
  • Keep your audiobooks, even if you cancel.
  • After your trial, Audible is just $14.95/month.
OR
In Cart

People who bought this also bought...

Saddlemates audiobook cover art

  • Saddlemates

  • By: Max Brand
  • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
  • Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    4.5 out of 5 stars 12
  • Performance
    4.5 out of 5 stars 9
  • Story
    4.5 out of 5 stars 9

The mining certificates granting ownership of the Christabel mine that Edward Dugan inherited from his father had a face value of $250,000, but the mine itself had been declared worthless. Still, Henry Christian, the man that had sold them to Dugan's father, said he'd buy them back for $1,500.
Penniless, Dugan decided to walk the 3,000 miles from his home in Boston to the mine in the Southwest to check out the offer. But along the way he meets a travel companion named Red. Red knows Christian by reputation, and by another name: Bonanza Chris.

The Brass Man audiobook cover art

  • The Brass Man

  • By: Max Brand
  • Narrated by: Traber Burns
  • Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    4.5 out of 5 stars 4
  • Performance
    4.5 out of 5 stars 3
  • Story
    4.5 out of 5 stars 3

When Lorrimer Weldon rode into San Trinidad, he found he immediately had two job offers: the outlaw Roger Cunningham wants Weldon to join his smuggling operation as a hired gun, and Dr. Henry Watts wants to hire Weldon's gun as well, but as muscle to protect a patient dying of consumption, the beautiful Helen O'Mallock. Weldon finds Watts' proposition far more attractive, so he accepts the offer, knowing that Cunningham will resent the decision.

  • 5 out of 5 stars

  • Didn’t see that coming

  • By jeremy jaynes on 05-01-18
The Steel Box audiobook cover art

  • The Steel Box

  • By: Max Brand
  • Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin
  • Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars 4
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars 3
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars 3

Lew Sherry and Pete Lang accept an offer they simply can't resist. Oliver Wilton is willing to pay the cowboys $1,000 a day for ten days to protect him from danger that has him living in a state of terror. A seafaring man has arrived at the inn in town and has made no secret of the fact that he's come to settle a score with Wilton.

The Lightning Warrior audiobook cover art

  • The Lightning Warrior

  • By: Max Brand
  • Narrated by: Jeff Harding
  • Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    4.5 out of 5 stars 7
  • Performance
    4.5 out of 5 stars 7
  • Story
    4.5 out of 5 stars 7

When the giant known as Cobalt offers the white wolf, Lightning Warrior, to Sylvia Baird, he expects her hand in marriage. But Sylvia reneges on an earlier promise and takes flight.

Return of the Rancher audiobook cover art

  • Return of the Rancher

  • By: Max Brand
  • Narrated by: Bill Weideman
  • Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    4 out of 5 stars 10
  • Performance
    3.5 out of 5 stars 5
  • Story
    4 out of 5 stars 5

The wounded outlaw blurted out the warning to range boss Jim Seton, and Seton knew that if he wasn't careful, the man's words would prove true; Doug Walters' men were out for his blood. After five years in prison, Seton dared to return to the hostile town he called home - and within shooting range of the one man who would pay a fortune to see him dead.

Gunman's Reckoning audiobook cover art

  • Gunman's Reckoning

  • By: Max Brand
  • Narrated by: Al Kessel
  • Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    4 out of 5 stars 20
  • Performance
    4.5 out of 5 stars 19
  • Story
    4 out of 5 stars 18

Frederick Schiller Faust was a prolific writer who wrote under a number of pseudonyms. One of these was Max Brand. Gunman's Reckoning is the story of a drifter who is given the job of righting a great wrong. In the midst of carrying out his task, he finds out that he was not told the entire truth. He continues anyway, because in doing the job, he has stumbled on the answer to a long quest of his own. This book is a western romance that has a bit of everything: love, mystery, lies, action and humor.

  • 5 out of 5 stars

  • Wonderful listen that hold your attention

  • By Cyn on 02-19-17

Editorial Reviews

A trilogy of Max Brand’s rip-roaring, action-filled tales of adventure and heroism on the western frontier.

Al Dano performs "Paradise Al", "Paradise Al’s Confession", and "The Quest" with a relaxed, sitting-’round-the-campfire style. The first two center on a drifter, who stopped riding the rails just long enough to get caught in the middle of a feud between two clans. The third story also involves an outsider - Barney Dwyer, longer on strength than smarts - with no idea of the journey he agreed to in trying to unite a father and son. Together, the stories serve as a fan’s validation or the uninitiated’s introduction to the works of a pulp master (Frederick Schiller Faust, when not writing under a pseudonym).

Publisher's Summary

Speedy probably had a last name, but no one knows it--a young man, a loafer, a drifter, a tramp. He does not usually use a gun, although in "Nighthawk Trail" he does, but it is only an elaborate illusion. Speedy is regarded as one of the most dangerous men in the West. The object of his quest is to find the great horse Nighthawk, bought for $7,000 by old Joshua Crane. The problem is that Nighthawk is in the possession of the notorious outlaw, Vincente Bardillo, across the border in Mexico, in what amounts to an armed fortress, with the horse guarded at all times. Bob Nelson in "The Vamp's Bandit" started out as merely a rowdy ranch hand, but he stepped over the line, and began robbing, such as the night he held up the stage in Porter's Pass. Bart Chambers, the rancher for whom Bob Nelson once worked, feels this turn into outlawry is only high spirits gone wrong.

Despite his thievery, Bob is able to elude law enforcement, but Chambers is convinced that there is one trap that will catch Nelson and that trap is the often-married but currently single Maybelle Crofter. Men seem unable to resist her when she casts her spell, and Chambers wants her to work her charm on Bob Nelson. He expected Bob Nelson to fall for the bait, but what he didn't think possible is what happens: Maybelle finds herself actually in love with the bandit. In "Rifle Pass," aging Sheriff Thomas Weller has one major problem: his son Dick Weller. Dick cannot seem to apply himself at anything. In a desperate attempt to have Dick's courage tested, the sheriff deputizes his son and charges him with the capture of the outlaw Harry Sanford. Initially it seems to be the right solution to the dilemma. Dick sets out to capture Sandord, and he does, but then to everyone's surprise and the sheriff's chagrin, he not only lets Sanford go free, but even joins him on the outlaw trail.
©2009 Golden West Literary Agency (P)2013 Audible, Inc.

What members say

Average Customer Ratings

Overall

  • 3.5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    1
  • 4 Stars
    4
  • 3 Stars
    0
  • 2 Stars
    0
  • 1 Stars
    1

Performance

  • 4 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    0
  • 4 Stars
    6
  • 3 Stars
    0
  • 2 Stars
    0
  • 1 Stars
    0

Story

  • 4 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    2
  • 4 Stars
    3
  • 3 Stars
    1
  • 2 Stars
    0
  • 1 Stars
    0
Audible.com Reviews
Sort by:
  • Overall
    1 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    4 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    4 out of 5 stars

The quest is not what it seems

What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?

The audible description could have been slightly accurate.

What other book might you compare The Quest to and why?

All other Max Brand books

Which scene was your favorite?

dont know

You didn’t love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities?

Yes, it is a good Max Brand. Just wish I had not already read/listened to it.

Any additional comments?

The three stories in the description are NOT in this book. I was very disappointed. The three stories are in fact:
Paradise Al
Paradise Al’s Confession
and
The Quest which is also included in another audible book called Trouble in Timberline.