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When you steal from people who pull the trigger instead of calling the law, you'd better be good at it. Bruder is the best.Bruder is a career master thief, an apex predator hijacker who takes what he wants from people who would never turn to the cops for help. His jobs are planned down to the second, pulled off with a professional crew he knows and trusts.And all of that doesn't mean a damn thing when the plan makes first contact with the job...When Bruder sees the chance to steal a couple million in untraceable Wall Street bonus cash, he moves fast to scout the job and put the crew and plan together.But the money belongs to a group of people you don't steal from-ever. The heist turns into a bloody killing ground, testing loyalties and pushing Bruder's abilities and instincts to the brink. And whoever holds the money will owe a debt that must be paid in blood, a debt telling Bruder exactly how much his life is worth.The Wrench is the first book in the gritty Bruder Heist Novels. If you like professional hard case criminals with a relentless focus on pulling off the job and getting away with it, join the crew and buckle up.
"In The Plains the story of John Tylor continues. Tylor thought he was finally free of pursuit as he headed out into the Great Plains. Turns out he's the most wanted man beyond the frontier--and half the world is on his trail. Not only has Fenway McKeever survived, but he enlists a couple of British agents along with a party of angry Arapaho in his pursuit of Tylor. Chief Gray Bear, he finally has his rifles! But keeping them when every tribe on the Northern Plains wants him dead is going to take every bit of skill and luck his small band has. Cut off from the rest, Tylor finds himself accidentally and uncomfortably married to young Singing Lark. As the Blackfeet, Arapaho, and Fenway McKeever close in, so, too, does a dedicated young Toby Johnson. Toby's been sent by Andrew Jackson to bring Tylor back alive or dead, and he'll die before he fails his general."--Gear-gear.com.
She was a beautiful European-trained songstress living the good life, well paid for her talent, traveling from town to town seeing the west...until Louie Bowen and his gang of misfits robbed her stage.Suddenly, ransom looked like the real take from the job. It was haul her to Mexico to await the big payday. But Elizabeth Anne Graystone wasn't the wilting violet most thought a lady should be. This songbird had a stinger, and a handful of tough Irish kin who'd ride to hell and back and damn near did to rescue the lady.
It started out as a silly idea to bring buyers back to Abilene. Wrangle some buffalo, put them on a train, and ship them to Chicago so folks back east could see the massive, shaggy beasts with their own eyes. The concept seemed sound. What could go wrong?But for John Creed, agent for the famed Faraday Security Service, it was anything but simple. First, Hank Miles was willing to do whatever was required to prevent the plan from succeeding. Hiding in the shadows was a silent partner. Creed's biggest threat, however, came from the man in black-an assassin who took pleasure in his work and would not stop coming until the job was complete.Before the Buffalo Train reached the end of the line, guns would roar, men would die, and Chicago would get a taste of what the "Wild West" was really like.
A BATTLE TO SURVIVE A DEADLY ENDGAME.Working as a bounty hunter for Trackdown, Inc. ex-con and former Army Ranger Steve Wolf has been trying to get his life back on track. Convicted of a war crime that he didn't commit, he hopes to one day clear his name, but to do this Wolf must fit together the missing pieces of a complex puzzle, made more indecipherable by eight missing minutes from his memory that may hold the answers.What Wolf doesn't know is that he inadvertently stands in the way of a very rich and extremely ruthless man who will stop at nothing to continue his bloody treasure hunt for a priceless artifact and cover up the array of bodies that already lay in its wake. As Wolf tries to fit the pieces of this developing puzzle together, he suddenly finds himself in the crosshairs of a highly professional and extremely deadly squad of mercenaries who give no quarter. Dodging more bullets than he did in a combat zone, Wolf must overcome the stacked odds against him.
The autobiographical thoughts of award-winning author Robert Vaughan, start with his childhood, including a 71-year grudge against a bad call in a Little League Baseball game. Spanning across his time in the army, first as an enlisted man, to include his time as an aircraft maintenance instructor in the Army Aviation School at Rucker during which time he once wrestled a bear, and his time in Korea from a poignant Christmas, to finding an abandoned baby.His military experiences also cover his time as a warrant officer, serving at Ft. Campbell, in Germany, where he engaged in a "slapping contest" with a German, three combat tours in Vietnam, including landing on a mine, being temporarily blinded, and scrounging a staff car from the Navy.After leaving the army, Vaughan had a short, but active television career, from which he was fired for handcuffing the weather girl to a desk during a live broadcast. His TV career was followed by a stint of owning and publishing a newspaper, then, becoming a full time novelist with nearly 400 books published, including seven New York Times best-sellers. During his writing career, Vaughan was arrested by the FBI as a part of one of his books was read into the Watergate Hearings.The book is told, not in numbered chapters, but in a series of titled vignettes.
STRAP IN FOR A WILD RIDE! Wells Fargo detectives John Pope and Sarah Watson are on loan to the Secretary of War and the Attorney General. There is a conspiracy against the President, and no one knows who to trust, so they hired outside for the best.Guns blaze and knives flash as the two develop and follow leads in Washington and around the country. They find sedition and assassination are very different from solving stage robberies.Will the two detectives be left standing when the last shot is fired?
Everybody knows: When you want to steal fourteen million dollars from a group of Romanian thugs, you go to Iowa.That's exactly what Bruder and his crew are going to do, and they figure the hardest part will be getting into the gang's armored car and grabbing the cash without getting shot.They're dead wrong.Because first they have to scout the job and get in tight with a local-somebody expendable who can give them the information they need. But when one of the men gets wrapped in so tight he starts popping loose ends, Bruder has to make a call: Who's more of a threat, the Romanians, or his own crew?He'll find out when the gang boxes Bruder and the others in, cutting off the few roads out of town and hunting-farm to farm, house to house, room to room.It's only a matter of time before the Romanians get their shot at vengeance on the crew. But shooting at Bruder hasn't worked out well for anybody...so far. The Box is the second book in the gritty Bruder Heist Novels. If you like professional hard case criminals with a relentless focus on pulling off the big heist and getting away with it, join the crew and buckle up.
When sixteen- year-old Troy Elliot's father, mother, and sister are killed, he is shot and left for dead. But he doesn't die, and over the next six years he starts a campaign of revenge. His campaign accounts for all but one of the men who broke into the house that night. He has not found the leader, because Troy never got a look at him. Now, as a shotgun guard for Wells Fargo, Troy's quest for vengeance is interrupted when he is framed for the murder of his driver, Rice Pendleton.Rice Pendleton is the father of Alexandria Pendleton, a beautiful woman stagecoach driver. Troy is attracted to Alex, but the false charge of murder stands between them.Troy is forced to take up the outlaw trail until he is able to clear his name, deliver justice to the leader of the men who killed his family, and win the hand of the comely Alex Pendleton.
Jacoba and Charlie DeGroot come west intent on homesteading on the newly opened Coeur d' Alene Indian Reservation. Providing Charlie's name is drawn in the land lottery, that is. But on sign-up day, a head-on collision between two trains nearly derails their plans. While Charlie is dreadfully injured, a man appears out of nowhere and saves Jacoba. Friction between the newlyweds arises when Jacoba's name is drawn in the lottery instead of Charlie's. During the winter, as Charlie heals, Jacoba labors to make ends meet. When at last Charlie can function, he moves to the homestead by himself while Jacoba stays behind to work and keep money coming in. But is Charlie really working for the benefit of them both? That is the question that plagues Jacoba. On a visit to the homestead, she discovers nothing has been accomplished. No cabin built, no land cleared, an expensive team of horses neglected. It's when she decides to move to the site herself that matters come to a head. Her husband has changed, and not for the better. Now there's a question Jacoba has to ask herself. "Is this piece of ground worth dying for?"
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.
WILL REDEMPTION EVER COME?That's the question former Army Ranger Steve Wolf keeps asking since he served time for a war crime he didn't commit.Wolf has been struggling to rebuild his life and ultimately clear his name, and when a path to doing just that materializes, Wolf finds himself being stalked by shadow-like foes who seem to know his every move. Unbeknownst to Wolf, his adversaries are being funded by the same wealthy sociopath who set Wolf up for the false war crime charges back in Iraq, and this rich man will stop at nothing to obtain a priceless artifact and see Wolf destroyed.Following this trail to possible salvation, Wolf and his friend and mentor, Jim McNamara, find themselves facing a brutal gang of bikers as well as a group of highly proficient rogue CIA-trained killers. In a desperate struggle to save an innocent life and seize his last chance at redemption, Wolf must face overwhelming odds in a battle against the powerful forces that have tormented him for so long.
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.
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