Ronicky Doone - Brand, Max

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Résumé :
Ronicky Doone is a novel written by Max Brand. Bill Gregg teams up with professional gambler Ronicky Doone on a journey that brings the two Westerners to New York. Ronicky Doone has a reputation as a champion of hopeless causes. Western legend Ronicky Doone is admired by law-abiding citizens and despised by bushwhacking robbers. In order to meet his lady love for the first time, Bill Gregg is not about to let anything stand in his way. He is prepared to confront the living legend in order to do so. The two develop a bond after their first encounter and follow the girl eastward to New York City. Ronicky has to figure out the girl's secret after they find Caroline Smith and she won't go. As they try to save Caroline and make their way back to the mountain desert of the west, they run into the evil John Mark and the lovely Ruth Tolliver and are exposed to the horrors and vices of city life.

Biographie:
American author Frederick Schiller Faust (May 29, 1892 - May 12, 1944) is best known for his Western novels written under the pen name Max Brand. For a collection of pulp fiction stories, he (as Max Brand) also invented the well-known fictional character of young medical intern Dr. James Kildare. Over the next several decades, his Kildare character appeared in a variety of other media, including a number of American theatrical films by Paramount Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), a radio program, two television programs, and comic books. George Owen Baxter, Evan Evans, George Evans, Peter Dawson, David Manning, John Frederick, Peter Morland, George Challis, Peter Ward, Frederick Faust, and Frederick Frost are some of the other aliases used by Faust. For Argosy magazine, Faust wrote the Tizzo the Firebrand series under the pen name George Challis. Taking place in Renaissance Italy, the Tizzo saga was a collection of historical swashbuckler tales starring the title hero. When Faust, Frank Gruber, and coauthor Steve Fisher were at Warner Brothers at the beginning of 1944, they frequently engaged in idle talk in the afternoons with Colonel Nee, a technical advisor dispatched from Washington