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In an attempt to soothe growing Cold War tensions between America and Russia, Premier Nikita Khrushchev visits the US to see all that his "enemy" has to offer. Top of his to-do list? A trip to Disneyland and an introduction to sexual icon Marilyn Monroe. Thanks to the impossible security requirements, Disneyland is out of the question. Marilyn, on the other hand, jumps at the chance to put on a show for the Russian official. During her appearance, she overhears the details of an assassination plot designed to spark an atomic holocaust and devastate both superpowers. When the Secret Service refuses to believe her, Marilyn risks everything to whisk Khrushchev away to safety-in the happiest place on earth. With US agents and the KGB hot on their trail, Marilyn and Khrushchev enjoy the thrills of the amusement park while fighting to stay one step ahead of the assassins and prevent the horrors of an unprecedented war that would annihilate millions. "Historical fiction, thriller and comedy rolled into one book. It was a page turner - I couldn't put it down."
"Yakima Henry left his ranch in the White Mountains for supplies and rode right into a bloody shootout between Saber Creek townsfolk and a gang of banditos who just robbed a stagecoach. But what really riles Yakima is the banditos making off with his prized stallion, Wolf, and a pretty saloon girl" -- Back cover.
SADDLE UP FOR THE WILDEST, SEXIEST, BLOODIEST PETER BRANDVOLD SERIES YET!Half Indian and half white, Yakima Henry considers himself lucky to have any job - even if it means just sweeping up the local brothel.But when four hombres attempt to carve up one of the house girls, Yakima gives them a taste of their own medicine with his Arkansas Toothpick. Now, he's become the girl's protector, and is on the run from a vicious bounty hunter. "Hooks you instantly with sin-soaked villains and a compelling hero. Yakima Henry has a heart of gold and an Arkansas toothpick." - Mike Baron, author of Florida Man.
HAS THE TRAGEDY BETWEEN TWO LOVERS OPENED A GATEWAY FROM THE PAST?A young waitress vanishes after work in the popular tourist town of Tombstone - she's not the first and she won't be the last to disappear without a trace from the dusty Old West streets.At the same time, Cheryl, a tourism management student, is bothered by terrible visions about a soiled dove and the rowdy past of the very same silver boom town. Are the two cases connected?Cheryl must find out what happens in the historic Bird Cage Theatre after the daytime tourists leave and night falls over the town and if the demons of yesteryear will walk the streets of Tombstone again.
Joyce Lackey was a classic baby-boomer. She had it all: a high-paying position, a beautiful condo, a BMW. But there was one thing she didn't have any more - her youth, and that was what she needed most.Her boss fired her because he wanted someone with "young blood and young ideas." Joyce was forced to start all over again. But could she compete with all the beautiful young kids who were so hungry for what she had? The X-Gen Agency could give Joyce everything she wanted, everything she needed - a new job, a new body and a new identity. In short: a new life, but there was a price. It seemed reasonable enough when Joyce signed the contracts, and besides, she was desperate. By the time she realized what she had done, it was too late to turn back. This was one contract without an escape clause..."A clever, twisted generational thriller that fictionalizes the brewing Boomers vs. Gen X-ers conflict in the workplace and in society at large."
The south country beckoned, and Gabe and Ezra answered.It was nothing more than a re-supply trip to Santa Fe, but an encounter with the Tabeguache Ute and the Caputa Ute changed the course of their journey. It wasn't until they came upon the massacre at a Mexican Hacienda and the subsequent attack from a rampaging band of renegade Jicarilla Apache, that they would uncover a prospering trade in captives and slaves that would raise the ire of both Gabe and Ezra.When a garrison of Mexican Soldados and one particular officer intervenes, things are not as they would first appear. Their purpose was derailed when an unexpected ambush by Apache would prompt a rescue expedition. When all is complicated by the intervention of slave traders, Comancheros, and the perpetrators masking as Mexican Soldados, only then does a simple re-supply journey become a vengeance quest, and all the blood that would flow would not be Apache!This historical western series will have you gasping for air and capture your heart.
A story that crosses oceans and continents from before the Civil War to the years just before World War II, a uniquely American story. Ranald MacKenzie can do anything, at least that's how it seems to friend and foe alike. From Bull Run to Appomattox, the tireless and endlessly resourceful MacKenzie marches from one victory to the next, no matter how seemingly impossible the assignment. Promoted to general at only 24, he seems impervious to pain and incapable of failure. When the Civil War ends, MacKenzie's reputation shines even brighter when he is assigned to the Plains Indian Wars to take on the invincible Comanche led by their great war chief Quanah. But there is a price to be paid for 25 years of almost constant and always brutal warfare...Based on the real-life story of Ranald MacKenzie, whose eventual illness - possibly PTSD almost a century before anyone knew what that was - and terrible end saw him virtually erased from the pages of history; a bare mention, when he is mentioned at all.
INTERNATIONAL BEST-SELLING AUTHOR W. MICHAEL GEAR TURNS HIS MASTER'S HAND TO THE FRONTIER WEST. 1812 Missouri Fur Trade - An intimate of the Burr conspiracy, the condemned and hounded John Tylor signs on as boatman with Manuel Lisa's expedition. But the river is now contested as the British, Spanish, and other fur companies prepare to break Lisa's hold. As the expedition battles its way up the violent river, Fenway McKeever lurks in Tylor's shadow. Not only is the half-mad McKeever paid to kill Tylor, but he's convinced himself that by destroying Lisa's expedition, he can sell his services to the highest bidder."No one reads a Gear novel without being transformed in beautiful ways." - Richard S. Wheeler
THE TWO BROTHERS YOU DON'T WANT TO FIND YOU...The Crockett brothers Will and Gid, respond to the request of Sheriff Tyrone McMurtry, LaSalle County, Texas, is being plagued by the Jess Felton Gang.When the Crocketts set up a phony money shipment, the Felton gang takes the bait, and Will and Gid kill one of the outlaws and capture a second, the other two outlaws get away.When the sheriff is murdered, Will is blamed for it. After Gid gets injured Will, a wanted man, must fight, not only to capture the gang, but to prove his innocence.Will is cleared, Gid has recovered, and the two brothers bring justice of the gun in a final shootout in the Texas town of Cotulla."There is never a dull moment with the Crockett brothers."
"A FRONTIER SAGA WITH A LIBERAL DOSE OF WAR, POLITICS AND ROMANCE."The western tribes put aside ancient enmities and form a confederation to oppose the invasion of their lands by the American army and settlers. The confederation has advantages: control of gold mines and superior weapons supplied by a shadowy Asian people called the Celestials. The confederation of The People is led by the Beothuk who escaped extinction in their ancient homeland in eastern Canada and settled in the American western plains.A fanciful retelling of the frontier story interlaced with a star-crossed love story - an impressionable army lieutenant and a young Indian girl who is better educated and speaks more languages than her soldier lover."Well-written and vividly descriptive the reader is swept into the heart the Beothuk village with its customs, culture, history and storytelling."
HIS RAGE HAS NO LIMITS AFTER AN ATTACK ON A PEACEFUL UTE VILLAGE. Bounty hunter Brodie Pike cannot see all the good he has done, only the infrequent mistakes. So he decides to get away from people. Little does he know when he finds a beautiful valley in Colorado Territory's San Juan Mountains - where he plans to make his home - that the love of a Ute woman and the friendship of a warrior would change his life. Blaming himself for a white men's attack on a peaceful Ute village, and the defiling of an eleven-year-old girl, Pike embarks on a trail of vengeance to make the white demons pay a bloody price.
ON A JOURNEY OF REVENGE, THEY MUST FACE THE DANGERS AND UNEXPECTED BETRAYALS ALONG THE WAY. The dying request of an old friend sends former Indian scout Lone McGantry on a perilous journey from the barren Nebraska Sandhills to the ragged, snowy peaks of the Colorado Rockies. Danger dogs his trail right from the start, beginning with a pack of vengeful brothers out for his blood. Along the way, Lone crosses paths with a gang of ruthless robbers and also learns that a bounty placed on his head by a misguided cattle baron is responsible for hired guns swarming the territory in search of collecting the pay-out ...The only bright spot in any of this is the companionship of an abandoned Oriental beauty with her own desperate need to reach the mountains. Lone's grudging agreement to escort her only adds complications, but it also adds a bittersweet hint of romance he didn't know he was missing.
WITH THE CROCKETTS' IN TOWN, EVERY TWO-BIT GUNSLINGER'S CHANCES OF SURVIVING ARE JUST ABOUT ZERO...After brothers Will and Gid Crockett deliver several horses to Colonel John Abernathy - a man they knew during the civil war - he hires them to accompany his sixteen-year-old daughter, Julia, on a stagecoach trip for fear she may be kidnapped and held for ransom.Julia is very highly sought after, and Silas King and his outlaw gang refuse to back down.The Crockett brothers find themselves in the outlaw town of Jericho with nothing but a shootout standing in the way of justice."The Crockett brothers carry a mean punch and wild adventures."
Lifelong loner Yakima Henry unexpectedly befriends Paul Cahill, an old prospector with roots in a once-wealthy Eastern family. When Cahill is mortally wounded by men stalking his and Yakima's trail, Cahill asks Yakima to travel to northern Dakota Territory and deliver a letter and a belt stuffed with money to his estranged son. On his trip north, Yakima befriends two young sisters whose mother has died and who, escaping an abusive stepfather, are trying to make their way north to their grandparents' farm along the Cannon Ball River. Heading into owlhoot-infested Dakota Territory is no nap in the shade for Yakima alone but traveling with two complicated young women is no picnic, either. When an Irish countess seduces Yakima, enflaming her husband's jealous rage, and the bounty-hunting assassin called The Reverend stalks Yakima's and the girls' trail, Yakima comes to believe that when his friend Paul sent him north to Dakota, he'd really been sending him hell-bound!"The west has a bonafide superhero and his name is Yakima Henry."
He wanted to retire . . . . . . Assassins have other plans. Secret Agent John Sand was the world's greatest spy, then he decided to call it quits. Settling into quiet mornings and lovely dinners, Sand finally found peace.But as Sand is adjusting to a life free of espionage, the CIA calls in an unexpected favor. JFK needs Sand for a final mission: one he might not survive. Deadly assassins are targeting Cuba's president, and his own people might be in on the attempt. If El Presidenté dies, World War III is imminent . . .The unexpected jolt to Sand's senses pulls him back into a world full of secret intelligence, where Sand is on board for the most dangerous mission of his life. The enemies are deadlier. The stakes higher. The threats more complex.Is John Sand ready to face these enemies, or will the once great spy be brought to the verge of his physical abilities with each passing test?Come Spy With Me is the first in The John Sand Series, invoking the best of the original spy thrillers that follow a recently retired British secret agent in the early 1960s. His real-life exploits inspired a very famous series of best-selling novels by a friend in the spy game.Purchase your copy now to dive into this action-packed secret agent series!
HOT ACTION, TERRIBLE CRIMES AND JUSTICE SERVED.A series of fires, robberies, and assaults escalate quickly into killings in the small central Nevada community of Eureka. Deputy Sheriff Terrence Corcoran believes that two brothers along with a friend of theirs, are involved. Those robbed and assaulted are being physically intimidated into not revealing who did the dirty deed.The young outlaw brothers attack a rancher leaving the auction yard after selling his herd and kill him and his coach driver. Several weeks later, they attack a stagecoach, which leads to death and an escape.
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