For as long as I can remember, treasure hunters have been captivated by accounts of the Dutchman Jacob Waltz's life and the whereabouts of his hidden gold mine. Can any tale be more compelling than that long unsolved mystery of millions of dollars of gold lost deep in the Superstition Mountains?<br><br>Yes – the REAL story, that will keep you on the edge of your seat!<br><br>In Dutchman and the Devil: The Lost Story I examine the tangled trail of truth and fiction...
Jest upalny lipcowy dzień. Porucznik Cieślak, pełniący dyżur w komendzie milicji, walczy z sennością. Ożywia się, gdy w jego biurze pojawia się młoda, piękna dziewczyna. Zupełnie nieoczekiwanie rzuca się ona na Cieślaka i obsypuje go stekiem wyzwisk. Zaskoczony oficer każe odwieźć dziewczynę na pogotowie. Jeszcze nie zdążył ochłonąć po awanturze, jaką urządziła mu urocza nieznajoma, gdy otrzymuje wiadomość, że została ona zamordowana. Ktoś zadał jej cios w plecy nożem sprężynowym. Do akcji...
E. Hoffmann Price’s Exotic Adventures MEGAPACK® contains 11 stories and short novels set in a wide range of locales: Europe, Polynesia, Asia, the Middle East, etc. Their settings also range chronologically, from historical adventures to contemporary thrillers and were all published between 1935 and 1945 (with an outlier from 1971 as the finale). These are full-blooded, two-fisted tales of warriors throughout the ages, seeking glory and triumph. We hope you enjoy these rip-roaring tales of...
Edgar Hoffman Price (1898-1988) was a prolific pulp writer who got his start writing for Weird Tales and became a peripheral member of the Lovecraft Circle of weird fiction writers. This collection contains every story he published featuring a Kurdish holy man named Ismeddin. Price labels him as a «darvish,» an alternate spelling of the Sufi Muslim «dervish,» a man who chooses to become a beggar and an ascetic to become closer to God. The term «whirling dervish» comes from the spiraling dances...
Terror stalks the campus of a Minnesota university, where two professors working on classified military research have been brutally murdered. Student Karen Butler fears for her life after her adviser is killed, realizing she's the only one left with detailed knowledge of a new nerve gas defense system plus a terrible nanotech weapon. Karen and her boyfriend, Jack Nelson, a member of the elite military group Eagle Squad, play a dangerous game with an enemy who claims the secrets belong to...
Sheriff Maxwell lässt nicht gerne auf lebende Menschen schießen. Als er erfährt, dass in seinem Bezirk die Treibjagd auf Theodore Swobenka inszeniert werden soll, kommt Maxwell auf recht ausgefallene Ideen. Und damit hilft er Richter Johnson, die sieben Mann starke Gang des New Yorker Rauschgiftrings für mehr als ein Jahrzehnt hinter Schloss und Riegel zu bringen. Das ist nur eine von vierzehn spannenden Erzählungen von Mario Monteiro.
In New Orleans, Barry Rivers fought the mob and exposed traitors inside the U.S. government. Then, when a bomb killed the woman he loved, he started life again under a new identity—with a new mission. Now Rivers travels America’s highways in a midnight blue Kenworth with his dog named “Dog,” and a whole lot of guns, bullets, and bombs packed into the cab.   An attempted hijacking on a New Mexico highway puts Rivers face to face with an unholy...
Erich Glaubmirnix ist ein Polizeibeamter der es in seinem Leben nicht immer leicht hat. Verschiedene Ereignisse, welche im Dienst passieren, verfolgen ihn ungewollt bis in seine Freizeit und rauben ihm fast den Verstand. Mal hatte er es mit einem »Fliegenden Teppich« zu tun. Da hatte er keinen Plan, wie er das seinem Vorgesetzten erklären sollte. Ein anderes Mal wurde er selbst zum Opfer und hatte mit seinem Leben zu kämpfen. Als dann auch noch seine Heidi ins Visier des Verbrechens gerät und...
At the mercy of a treacherous sea… Claire Britten's training never prepared her for this—the forensic psychology curriculum didn't cover plane crashes. Or how to help fellow survivors cope, seven frightened people huddled in two small rafts awaiting a rescue that may never come. Especially when three of them are your ex-husband, your young daughter—and the man you love, Nick Markwood, whose pursuit by a criminal mastermind forced you all to run in the first place.When the bedraggled...
When You Need The Best, You Need The Sisterhood. . . It's been years since the members of the Sisterhood first banded together, with the help of their mentor Charles Martin, to exact their own form of justice on those whose crimes had gone unpunished by the legal system. Now, back in the United States after an enforced exile, and ensconced in a new home on Big Pine Mountain in North Carolina, Myra, Kathryn, Annie, Alexis, Isabelle, Yoko, and Nikki are breathing easy at last–but not for...