Les Tarron was just a boy when five strangers rode into his life and changed it forever. Years later – jailed, hunted and betrayed – Les felt the hatred burning inside him like a fever and set out to even the score… <P> “No pulp writer was more prolific than Frederick Faust, who wrote nearly 15 million words under the pen name of Max Brand and seventeen others. He sold all his stories and sometimes wrote complete issues of Western Story Magazine.” – The Incredible Pulps
Les Tarron was just a boy when five strangers rode into his life and changed it forever. Years later – jailed, hunted and betrayed – Les felt the hatred burning inside him like a fever and set out to even the score… <P> “No pulp writer was more prolific than Frederick Faust, who wrote nearly 15 million words under the pen name of Max Brand and seventeen others. He sold all his stories and sometimes wrote complete issues of Western Story Magazine.” – The Incredible Pulps
Reveals the rigors of becoming a Border Patrol agent Provides an inside look at life in the U.S. Border Patrol Highlights overcoming personal challenges Addresses one of the most pressing situations in the U. S. today (border security) Focuses on the challenges faced by so-called “Dreamers”—those undocumented immigrants brought across the border as infants Tells a realistic love story
Fram is the story of Oscar, a minor bureaucrat in the US government's Bureau of Ice Prognostication, an agency created to compete with the Soviets during the heyday of the Cold War and still operating in the present without the public's knowledge. Oscar and his partner Alexi are tasked with inventing discoveries and settlements in the Arctic, then creating the paperwork and digital records to «prove» their existence, preventing the inconvenience and expense of actual exploration. The...
Death, Resurrection, and Rock and Roll. Book 2 in the Pan-Galactic Prom Show duology. Hundreds of alien creatures gather at the Collundrome, an asteroid party venue, for the Pan-Galactic Prom Show, the biggest bash in the known universe. Funk Toast, an Earth band, is slated to headline the event. But Knolar Jex, intergalactic pirate and terrorist, has his own nefarious plans for this year's extravaganza. Meanwhile…Twana Burch and a few friends bring a cloned version of Bieber–the...
Oslo, 1952: Ein Diebstahl im Wikingerschiffmuseum katapultiert den Museumswärter Max Falkenburg mitten in eine gefährliche Jagd nach einem mystischen Artefakt: Thors legendärer Hammer Mjöllnir. Es gelingt ihm, den entwendeten Gegenstand zurückzugewinnen, aber dies ist nur der Auftakt zu einer tödlichen Hetzjagd, die Max über Island und Grönland bis an die Küste Labradors führt. Zu seinem Glück findet er Unterstützung bei der Exkursion des amerikanischen Archäologen Frederick Crichton und...
SET AGAINST THE DECAYING HALLS of a San Diego rest home in the 1970s, God Clobbers Us All is the shimmering, hysterical, and melancholy account of eighteen-year-old surfer-boy orderly, Edgar Donahoe, and his struggles with romance, death, friendship, and an ill-advised affair with the wife of a maladjusted war veteran. All of Edgar's problems become mundane, however, when he and his lesbian Blackfoot nurse's aide best friend become responsible for the disappearance of their fellow...
New York Times bestselling author Sharon Sala enters the eye of the maelstrom as death and disaster stalk Tornado Alley—aided by an obsessive madman. As bodies pile up in the wake of a storm—stripped, tortured and grimly posed—authorities must admit the unthinkable. The serial killer dubbed the Stormchaser has returned following a tornado and taken it upon himself to bring the death toll up to where he believes it belongs.FBI investigator Wade Luckett is back on the case, assisted by an agent...
According to Rosemary Luce, 1968 Mahoningtown, Pennsylvania, was as true as the movie's exaggerations–a flash of technicolored bliss. But under the falling soot of train engines and steel mill stacks her vibrant Italian-American community is riddled with morbid secrets. Eleven-year-old Rosie's curiosity in a mysterious group of men precipitates her discovery of the Italian Mafia. When she gets caught in the Mafia's path she learns that her honorable and honest family has...
W [b]Gorylu z Wołomina[/b] Piotrek dostaje od wuja zlecenie ochraniania pewnej młodej Amerykanki polskiego pochodzenia, którą do kraju przysłał zaniepokojony ojczym. Rzekomo gangsterzy grożą jej śmiercią. Zdaje się, że samotna przejażdżka konna po pobliskim lesie nie kończy się dla Ady dobrze. Jej wierzchowiec wraca do domu sam. Zastanawiające jest to, że tuż przed wycieczką jej ochroniarz zostaje pilnie wezwany do chorej matki, która jednak czuje się dobrze. Wkrótce w tej okolicy znaleziono...
Toe Jak Stapelberg die pos van hoofbestuurder van die Sonderkloof-goudmyn aangebied word, weet hy dis te goed om waar te wees. Hy is te jonk en boonop beskik hy nie oor die nodige kwalifikasies nie. Sy vermoede word bevestig toe Manfred Steyner sy voorwaarde stel: Jak moet doen wat hy vra, sonder teenspraak. En Jak stem in, want dié kans gaan nie gou weer verbykom nie. As hy net eers die werk het, kan hy Manfred se opdrag mos weier. Nie Jak óf Manfred het rekening gehou met die eintlike magte...
Der Wind peitschte unerbittlich über die trostlose Landschaft. Er heulte über die kniehohe Schneedecke, wirbelte Eiskristalle scharf wie Nadelspitzen auf und neigte riesige Bäume, bis sie krachend niederfielen. Im Auftrag des Herzogs begibt sich Gregorius auf eine Reise, die sein Leben für immer verändern wird. Er entdeckt eine Welt, die grausamer und magischer nicht sein könnte. Inmitten eines verborgenen Krieges weiß er bald nicht mehr, auf welcher Seite er steht. Ob es sich lohnt zu...