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FROM THE CURRENT KING OF THE SEXY, HARD-DRIVING ACTION WESTERN! The legendary Sheriff Ben Stillman series is back…After bringing in a band of horse thieves, Sheriff Ben Stillman would like nothing better than to go back home to his wife and wait out the winter storm that is blasting through the Montana mountains. But the storm is about to become the least of the legendary lawman's concerns.A vicious gang of murdering outlaws has taken refuge from the brutal cold and snow in a remote mountain ranch cabin--taking everyone inside hostage. And Stillman is the only chance they've got to get out alive. It's Stillman's duty to save them. But the hardened lawman is taking this much more personally--and for good reason.They have his wife, Fay, too.
Crime master Robert J. Randisi delivers the second fast-moving mystery in the Nashville P.I. Series.Hammer Dylan's first album went platinum, and then he disappeared. One of the founders of the Outlaw Country genre, some said he was in hiding, while others were sure he was dead. Now, 45 years later, Auggie Velez is hired by Hammer's old talent agency… now being run by the grandson of Hammer's agent--to find Dylan, or find proof that he was dead. Auggie, a big fan of Dylan, is definitely up for the task.When murder rears its ugly head, things take a big twist…
IT IS A FIGHT THAT THE TEAM CANNOT LOSE, FOR TO DO SO MEANS DEATH…Strap yourself in while Brent Towns takes you for an action-packed thrill ride in book three of the Team Reaper series.It started with two cataclysmic events: the cold-blooded killing of a Pakistani journalist by a CIA special ops team, and the murder of a young woman in Los Angeles.From the Mojave Desert to the mean streets of L.A., then on to Europe. Team Reaper finds themselves in a bloody battle with an elite special forces team while trying to save one of their own, who is on a personal crusade of vengeance and has been marked with a termination order.The bad news for the other side, they're about to find out that the "Reaper" is real!
The eleventh novel in the best selling Rocky Mountain Saint western series by B.N. Rundell.War is looming in the East and when Tate and his son Sean meet with General Harney, commanding officer of Fort Laramie, each is tasked with special duties. Tate must scout and guide for the General and his troops as they leave the frontier to join the calamity in St. Louis. Sean is asked to be prepared to scout for the troops that remain and the new commanders that will be sent into the land of the restless Sioux. But first, the young scout, who knows the mountains, must learn about the country and people of the plains. After meeting with the chiefs of the Brulé, he travels with his new friend, White Fox, to meet with the Miniconjou. But an encounter with the warring Crow, intent on revenge against the Ogalala, results in his friend taken captive. Sean is the only hope for her safe return, but he must also do what he can to keep the Lakota from all-out war against a depleted force holding Fort Laramie. Muleskinners determined to make it to the goldfields of Colorado, crooked bankers and suppliers, and young warriors wanting to gain honors in battle, all come together to challenge the young scout in his first endeavor to bring peace to the prairie.
Calico Jack Walker and Tina Tamiko are back. 1978. Now retired from the L.A.P.D. and captain of his own fishing charter business, Calico Jack Walker pays for ignoring his instincts when he hires out to two shady characters who try to hijack his boat and almost murder his son.Walker's ex-partner and lover, Tina Tamiko, has promoted to detective. She's deep into an investigation leading to a plot to hijack an L.A.P.D. property barge loaded with confiscated drugs and weapons slated for ocean dumping.With another ex-partner framed for murder, somebody playing Robin Hood with stolen drug money, and a gang of dirty cops desperate for redemption, Walker and Tamiko know they're in deep water and it's time to gun up and throw down...
THE MATTHEW FARADAY SAGA CONTINUES...As our wounded nation heals itself in the aftermath of the Civil War, it is once more plunged into sorrow.In one treasonous moment President Abraham Lincoln is dead, and - though his assassin, John Wilkes Booth, is quickly caught - the treachery is far from over. A plot is being hatched to kidnap Lincoln's body from the funeral train that will carry the fallen leader through the countryside of mourners, from Washington to its final resting place in Springfield, Illinois. But the great railroad detective Matthew Faraday has gotten wind of the plot - although its perpetrators are still a mystery.With the blessings of Secretary of War Edwin Stanton and the aid of his newest and boldest agent, Cole Yeager, Faraday is sworn to protect the great man's body from desecration - while ambush, runaway locomotives, and death-dealing renegades wait up ahead.
FROM THE CURRENT KING OF THE FAST-MOVING, HARD-HITTING, SEXY WESTERN ADVENTURE!The Classic Sheriff Ben Stillman Series Continues...Sheriff Ben Stillman has enough of a hard time keeping the peace in the town of Clantick without having to worry about the likes of Matt Parrish. Since his father died, Matt has been responsible for the Circle P Ranch in the Two-Bear Mountains--and his hotheaded streak has been responsible for a lot of trouble with other ranchers...including his future father-in-law, Tom Suthern.Despite failing health and loss of profits, Tom refused to sell his spread to Matt, even with Matt about to marry old Tom's daughter. So when Matt is discovered in the presence of Tom's bullet-riddled corpse, people naturally assume he murdered the old man. Now, it's up to Ben Stillman to protect Matt from a trigger-happy posse and find the real killer--before it's too late and a powder keg of violence explodes in Three-Witch Valley…"Make room on your shelf of favorites; Peter Brandvold will be staking out a claim there." -Spur Award Winning Author, Frank RoderusFor fans of William W. Johnstone and George P. Cosmatos's Tombstone, you'll love this fourth novel in the epic, fast-paced Sheriff Ben Stillman series.
Book No. 7 of The Bureau, Crimes of Honor, follows the surviving protagonists through the tumultuous years between 1965 and 1973. The civil rights movement expands and urban ghettos burn through "long hot summers," while the war in Southeast Asia escalates with corresponding protests in America. The FBI inaugurates new extralegal operations labeled COINTELPRO-BLACK HATE and COINTELPRO-NEW LEFT, attacking any groups and individuals who fail to meet Chief Hoover's definition of "true Americans." More high-profile assassinations rock the nation and Lyndon Johnson withdraws from the next presidential campaign, succeeded by Richard Nixon awash in Syndicate money. Once in office, Nixon heaps new fuel onto the fire in Vietnam and brings the war home, wielding lethal force against campus protesters. Black Panthers, Weathermen, and other radicals respond in kind. Ryan O'Hara joins the FBI, while his father is forced from the Bureau by Hoover. The director's death in 1972 permits Erin O'Hara to become one of the first female FBI recruits since 1924, entering the academy as burglars expose the Bureau's COINTELPRO operations and the Nixon White House lurches into Watergate. Dominic Giordano seeks to lead his Mafia family in new directions, at risk of his life. The era ends in scandal and dissension, verging on America's first resignation of a president.
Book VI of The Bureau-In Honor's Name-spans events from January 1956 through publication of the Warren Report on President John Kennedy's assassination, encompassing: the Black civil rights movement and southern resistance by organized terror, plus the Hungarian rebellion and escalating warfare in Southeast Asia, the election of America's first Roman Catholic president and his Attorney General brother's campaign against organized crime, the Bay of Pigs invasion and the Cuban missile crisis, JFK's assassination in Dallas and suppression of its conspiratorial details. Robert Kennedy's resignation as Attorney General ends the "Camelot" era, while the Gulf of Tonkin incident propels America toward full-scale military involvement in Vietnam. Series protagonists confront unexpected challenges, none of them emerging unscathed, costing some of them their lives. Their children grow, pursuing various careers in law enforcement or the realm of crime, some undergoing transformations that divert the courses of their lives forever.
Life's good for Miles Jacoby: He's just been offered a partnership in a major investigatory agency in New York, his Village bar is becoming a popular watering hole, and he's got two cases. First, he's hired to find out who stole Stan Waldrop's act - literally. The standup comic's new routine was on Waldrop's hard disk. Now it isn't. Soon, Waldrop isn't standing up, either. At the same time, a murder suspect is playing dumb - being a stand-up guy and refusing to name names. Jacoby knows who isn't being named and has to find him before the name shows up in the obits. Well, maybe life isn't all that good: These are not the cases that dreams are made of. They're dirty and deadly and the bread-and-butter of life on the mean streets - even those with comedy clubs on every corner.
Her personal life is in shambles, but no cop does it better than Fey Croaker - as she fights for respect in the L.A.P.D. . . . and for justice in a city on the edge. All of Los Angeles is thrust into chaos when a popular NBA athlete is charged with a series of gruesome murders. The evidence against the defendant appears overwhelming, but old evils die hard. For L.A.P.D. homicide detective Fey Croaker and her appealing crew, the race for the truth will tax each of them to the limit. Under the scorching light of media attention, Fey's own demons are brought into sharp focus with the life of her wayward brother literally hanging in the balance. It's a race to get to the truths hidden beneath layers of lies, secrets, and deadly perversions - and Fey must win while there is still an L.A. left to protect and serve. "Paul Bishop has a flair for creating police who are very good and very bad and very human." - Los Angeles Times Book Review"A tough, taut, terrific tale! " - Dominick Dunne "A first-class writer. " - The New York Times
Top Los Angeles police detective and author Paul Bishop brings gripping authenticity and power to Chalk Whispers, his latest poignant and revealing novel featuring L.A.P.D. Detective Fey Croaker. Never one to avoid a challenge, Fey knows she'll face both jealousy and hostility on her promotion to lieutenant in the elite Robbery-Homicide Division, but she and her team encounter something far more dangerous and disturbing when their first case is the torture-murder of prominent lawyer Bianca Flynn, the daughter of a judge and sister of one of Los Angeles's police commissioners. Fey and her crew - the enigmatic married couple, Arch Hammersmith and Rhonda Lawless (a.k.a. Hammer and Nails), Brindle Jones and her partner, Alphabet Cohen, and Fey's second-in-command, Monk Lawson - must search Bianca Flynn's past to try to find clues to her murder. One promising avenue is Bianca's work for an illegal underground railroad seeking to protect children from sexually predatory parents. As the investigation twists into ever-tightening circles, Fey must also probe the strange death of Ellis Kavanaugh, one-time police force partner of Fey's abusive father. Is Kavanaugh's death connected to Flynn's? Why did the old man leave Fey a briefcase filled with hundred-dollar bills, and who chased him to his death beneath frightened horses on a racetrack? In a novel that reaches into the past to illuminate the tragedies of today, Paul Bishop reveals a vulnerable Fey Croaker readers have never seen before, and will not soon forget. Chalk Whispers delivers a knock-out punch in this riveting series from an author who combines the hard-earned authority of the professional police officer with the narrative gift of the born storyteller.
An action-packed western novel by bestselling author Johnny GunnMany wars between white men and Indians on the frontier started with the abduction and abuse of young white girls by the Indians. What Terrence Corcoran rides into is the opposite. White ranchers have abducted young Indian girls and abused them. This time, they made a mistake and left one alive.Corcoran discovers a cattle-rustling ring run by the Indian Agent, gets involved in the makings of an all-out Indian uprising, and fights with everyone involved. All this because he wanted to visit some old friends in Virginia City.
It was just supposed to be a family journey to see the wonders and waters of that strange land to the north, but the land of the north had become a battle ground with a recently freed slave and some mountain men. And when he was joined by a band of Blackfoot renegades that were bent on driving all the whites from their territory and ridding the mountains of their enemies, the monstrous black man willingly lent his might to the blood-letting in that north country. When Tate's family became endangered, the wrath of the Rocky Mountain Saint came to life, and he wasn't feeling like the compassionate helper he was known to be. Hindered by the rugged Absaroka mountains, an ambush in the wilderness, and his own fears, Tate questioned himself and whether he could make it to rescue his family, but would soon find that he would face an even greater fight and possibly a fight he could not win.Don't miss this ninth novel in the epic Rocky Mountain Saint series by B.N. Rundell
With the civil war over, the president assassinated, and the South in reconstruction, Tyrell Thompsett knew the country would be crying for beef. His long-held dream was to have his own ranch and to follow in the footsteps of his father that started the first ranch in the Medicine Bow range of Wyoming territory. Now, with his new wife, a member of the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico, and his friend, Grey Wolf and his wife of the Mouache Ute, he set out to make that dream a reality. But it seemed like the forces of nature had conspired together against them, and to add in the Weeminuche Ute, Jicarilla Apache, and some renegade Comanche, the obstacles before them seemed insurmountable.But after locating the ranch on the upper reaches of the Rio Grande in the San Juan mountains, the real challenges had to be faced. With a herd waiting in New Mexico territory, they set out to bring the herd back to Colorado territory. But, when a newly formed band of outlaw Confederate rebels, traders known as Comancheros, and renegade Comanche from the bands of the Ditsahkanah and Penateka Comanche, the name Comanchero referred to a heartless and merciless band of murderers and thieves. And it was to be a battle between the vaqueros and cowboys against the Comancheros that would leave a trail of blood and bodies and determine the fate of the Rio Grande ranch and the future of Tyrell Thompsett in the San Juan mountains.
Nel Higgins is the sixteen-year-old daughter of Frank Higgins, a deranged Lutheran pastor. After Nel's mother passes away, she finds herself and her sister, Annie, at the mercy of her father in Yankton, Dakota Territory, 1876.Bereft and frightened, Nel knows, deep in her heart, that neither she nor Annie will survive unless they can escape his evil clutches. Then, when unforeseen circumstances lead to Frank's sudden death, the two girls soon board the famous riverboat, the Far West. Once on board, Nel finds herself following the path of American destiny toward Fort Abraham Lincoln, Custer's Last Stand and the Battle of the Little Bighorn!Readers and early reviewers are comparing this Historical Romance novel to FOREVER AMBER and THE UNSINKABLE MOLLY BROWN. It is filled with action, adventure, sorrow and joy and showcases the strength, fortitude and danger of the American frontier.
Steve Madison set out to catch a killer-and barely escaped with this life.For the past three years a series of brutal vampire-style slayings have scandalized the world of rock music. Each of the killings has followed the appearance of a top band called The Screaming Tree, a group whose weird occult music had been called an orchestration of death. Music Industry trouble shooter Steve Madison joins the tour to catch the killer...and all bloody hell breaks loose!"One of my favorite writers . . . Enjoy! - Max Allan Collins"Stephen Mertz writes a hard-edged, fast-paced thriller for those who like their tales straight and sharp and full of dark surprise!" - Joe R. Lansdale
WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE: QUINN'S RAIDERSMARCUS QUINNHANK PROUDYBOB DEPROLOOMIS DEPROBILLY JOE HIGGINS$5,000 RewardThese men are armed and dangerous. They have committed murder, armed robbery, and cattle rustling.----Can Quinn's Raiders outrun the bogus paper put out by the Tucson sheriff's office?
Cowboy had been drifting ever since he left his home in Yellow House Creek, Texas, moving from ranch to ranch, following the work for 15 years. He had been saving the pay he sweated so hard for, and he reckoned there was enough to set himself up with a spread of his own. He thought he might look into the Triple X Ranch, the one they called the Whiskey Brand. It had prime cattle land and was a bargain...or so it seemed.
From the author of the bestselling U-boat series, comes the fourth and final novel in a fabulous new series about the war at sea.1941: Lt. Hamilton, commander of the only British Submarine in the Far East, relies on his own unorthodox daring to deal the Japanese a savage blow.
Book No. 8 of The Bureau, Price of Honor, follows the surviving protagonists through the turbulent years between 1974 and 1983. For the FBI and NYPD's BOSS, pursuit of black militants and white radicals continues, sometimes with fatal results.President Nixon resigns in disgrace, while revelations made in recent years prompt formation of multiple congressional committees probing illegal acts by both the FBI and CIA. Despite cancelation of COINTELPRO before Hoover's death, the Bureau still pursues lawless tactics against perceived subversives, including a new Indian War of sorts against Native American activists.The Vietnam war ends in communist triumph, while two single-term presidents seek to salvage America's image on a global scale. A new grassroots demand for "law and order" at home, with greater security abroad, propels Ronald Reagan into the White House and toward a new would-be assassin's gunsights. Nolan O'Hara leaves the Bureau to cooperate with Senate investigators, while the CIA cleans house of all possible living embarrassments.New frontiers of conflict open in Latin America and the Caribbean.
The first novel in the epic western Superstition Gun Trilogy by McKendree Long.1858, Fort Gibson, Indian Territory2d Lieutenant Dobey Walls meets and bonds with veteran Corporal Jimmy Melton. As the Civil War begins, they leave to join the 8th Texas Cavalry in Houston, then take part in the first and the final charges of the Army of Tennessee. Between those events, they ride with Nathan Bedford Forrest, play an honorable role in the Fort Pillow Massacre, harass Sherman with Shannon's Raiders, and visit the second best brothel in Atlanta. As surrender looms, they're released to search for Dobey's long-missing family in the Texas Panhandle. Their efforts are hampered by destitute farmers, lonely widows, dangerous militia, freed slaves, and runaways, who increase their numbers and excitement. In the process, they save a quadroon and her daughter from Yankee deserters who have stolen a Union payroll. This act of mercy brings them romance but puts Pinkerton detectives and a renegade lawman on their trail.
Somebody is out to murder rock star Jimi Hendrix, but Jimi's old army buddy-who calls himself Soldier-is on hand to help. The 1970 London rock scene comes alive in a violent, fast-paced thriller that mixes fact and myth about one of rock's greatest legends."Action-driven crime novel . . . with German thugs, drug dealers, and an ex-CIA agent who claims that the U.S. government wants Jimi dead. Hendrix fans may enjoy Mertz's portrait of the iconic musician." - Publishers Weekly
From the author of the bestselling U-boat series, comes a fabulous new series about the war at sea.Lieutenant-Commander Cavendish R.N. was cashiered from the navy after master-minding a dummy torpedo run during peacetime on the pride of Nazi Germany's new navy.As far as everyone knew he later died in a racing car accident and the case was forgotten. Except by his First Lieutenant Nick Hamilton, who, by 1940, was commanding his own submarine, HMS Rapier. When Hamilton made an audacious attack on the Nazi prison ship, Norse, he discovered that Cavendish was not dead at all-and he and HMS Rapier were involved in the most terrifying adventure of their career...
Introducing Marcus Quinn and his raiders. Ex-Rebel out to take what they can get and then some. The war between the States is over, and Quinn's Raiders, the fiercest unit of guerrilla fighters in the South, are on their way to Texas to swing for their crimes. But no Yankee prison train can hold these boys for long.
She had the complexion of weathered leather, eyes like shining lumps of coal, a voice that grated like a rasp, and she was a skilled gunsmith with the demeanor of a wolverine. But she had a set of twins that needed to be raised and the city was no place for that. When the wagon train she joined was hit by Indians and she and her family were left behind, her skill with a big Sharps rifle made her a welcome addition to a buffalo hunt with the Comanche. But her goal was the gold fields of California and she needed help. Only one man in the mountains could handle that task. Tate Saint, known as the Rocky Mountain Saint, and his family would soon provide all the help she needed, and more. But an attack by the same Jicarilla Apache and Mouache Ute that wiped out Fort Pueblo on Christmas day would put them all to the test, and that wasn't all that would be thrown at them by the forces of nature, the wilds of the wilderness and the depravity of man. Challenges and trials would come against them, and the mettle of the mountain man would have to prove its worth, if he was up to it.
Fort Keogh, Wyoming: 1878After surviving bloody ambushes by renege Sioux warriors, Lieutenant Colonel Marcus Cavanaugh finds his welcome at Fort Keogh to be hardly a warm one. Major Templeton, the officer who built the fort, is outranked by Cavanaugh and unwilling to play second fiddle to the new commander.With a mutiny and the chain of command endangered, the Sioux begin attacking. Though Cavanaugh orders caution, his subordinate boasts that he could rout the entire Sioux nation with a handful of pony soldiers. The disgruntled major leads his troops straight into a vicious Sioux trap. Now Cavanaugh and the few good men he has left must defeat the savages, and avenge... THE TEMPLETON MASSACRE.
When Gil and Claire Hunt signed up to attend a mystery writers' convention, the last thing they expected to encounter was a real-life murder. But when the convention's star attraction, prominent hardboiled writer Robin Everly, is found dead in his hotel room, Gil and Claire find themselves hunting for a clever killer.
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