The Border Kid Author:Max Brand The name of Ricardo Perez was one to inspire fear and respect in the hearts of the most daring and cold-blooded men of the West. Ricardo, foster son of a Mexican muleteer, had been an honest lad until William Benn took him under his wing to train him in the ways of the quick-shooting, ruthless outlaws. Ricardo learned his lessons fast and set ou... more »t on his first assignment -- to steal a seven-million-dollar inheritance destined for Maud Ranger, a cattle baron's daughter. To win Maud's confidence, Ricardo rides singlehanded into the hideout town of El Real to battle with Charles Perkins, the craftiest gun-toting killer in the West. The swift-moving episodes in Ricardo's life become a personal struggle between right and wrong as he heads down the thrill-packed trail of adventure on the Border.« less