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In the distant future a man must decide if he wants to marry a crime lords daughter and become an enforcer in galactic organized crime, or should he allow a royal woman to install him in a pleasure palace so he can lead the life of a caged galactic prince while he services humanity's most powerful and most beautiful women, or should he just go back to his old life of hard partying, excessive drinking, and occasionally fighting dangerous animals in places where modern weapons cannot be...
| Автор | Tom Boone's Anderson |
The Face of Freedom is a novel for all genders concerned with the current trading of Constitutional Freedoms for governmentally sponsored safety.<br><br>In this novel incompetent manipulation of political and military power draws innocent people into a turmoil of intrigue, conflict and fulfillment that demonstrates the inevitable strength of men and women from varied walks of life and diverse countries. It demonstrates how unusual, usual people can be when it's necessary to...
| Автор | Benjamin Vance |
Jade Byner has endured the abuse for a long time. The seventeen-year-old is not as innocent as she would like others to believe, but she may have good reason to fear for her life. Her intricate escape plan seems to be flawless. By nightfall she should be in a distant city starting a new life with her beloved Josh. <br><br>Bad, luck, bad people, and bad weather sabotage Jade's plan. Unexpected lethal winter temperatures numb her mind and diminish her ability to reason. Early...
| Автор | Michael J.D. Lorinser |
Set in an immersive high fantasy setting, The Vlishgnath Chronicles follows the adventures of Sir Vlishgnath the Cleansing Light, a paladin sworn to service in the name of the deity Mithos. In The Exorcism of Drenton, Vlishgnath and his fellow church knights travel to Drenton, a village ravaged by famine and disease, and in the process of aiding the townsfolk uncover an ancient horror trying to awaken. In The Sorcerer's Dream, Vlishgnath encounters a powerful magic run amok, holding the...
| Автор | Daniel Mitchell |
This is part of Dubai 2050 City of Gold Survivors series. Part I: The Dead End Sea. Part II: Unforgiving Desert And Beyond.<br><br>Zed's desire to find the secrets of his origins and probe the limits of his world remains unfulfilled.<br><br>And now, returned from his exploration of the Dead End Sea—a voyage that appears to have taken him out of time for five years—Zed faces new challenges in Atta. While his love for Nera blossoms, he finds that...
| Автор | Hassan Al Jabri |
In this thrilling sequel to Normans Cay, Phil Harrison, Judy Simpson, Michael Farris and Linda Wilson, once again aboard their luxury boat, Iron Pyrate, embark on an adventure full of suspense, intrigue, corruption and romance.<br><br>The intricate plot of Hidden Agendas begins when the two couples agree to work with Tom Barrens, a member of the Drug Enforcement Agency, to execute a pick-up of drugs off the coast of Florida. Their objective is to end the regime of the Colombian drug...
| Автор | Paul Boardman |
In this final climax to Tony Bertot's Assassin Trilogy we are once more drawn into the life of the Assassin as he looks to complete his assignment of eliminating Felicia Giordano; the head of the Giordano Family.<br><br>Follow Tyler Santiago as he soon discovers the secrets to his past life and also begins to track the Assassin.<br><br>You will not able to hold yourself back as the characters come to life with the turn of each page and you find yourself cheering...
| Автор | Tony Jr. Bertot |
Jack Philips is running, and he can't even remember why. Hunted through the remnants of a world where our past exists only as fractured clues, Jack has almost as little information about his identity. Only a sword too fine for any common soldier and flashes of memory telling him things that would get anyone else in the kingdom executed.<br><br>The kingdom itself is a mystery, its king determined to maintain that mystery by any means necessary. Knowledge is hoarded, the...
| Автор | Sergey Brezhnev |
A fascinating nail-biting and romantic exodus from civil war in the heart of the equatorial jungle.<br><br>It takes compelling reasons to leave rewarding jobs and comfortable urban lifestyles, and move to an isolated aero-space project in an equatorial jungle. The facility, constructed during a brief lull in the country's tumultuous history, is located on the equator; a good place to launch large rockets. Nearly three thousand westerners live and work behind a fence...
| Автор | Norman Shakespeare |
Thad Hamilton was a man whose life was on a treadmill, though he would not accept that he too was one of those mumbodies playing out an existence, leading a life of quiet desperation. Then, it changed, he had an auto accident and crossed over to the other side. Oh, sure… he too had always scorned «the light in the tunnel» as a bunch of bull-shit but there he was on some platform as if waiting for a train. Then a garishly dressed little woman with a monkey on her back and a sign with the name...
| Автор | Welby Thomas Cox, Jr. |
Some people kill you with a joke, the colonel would just kill you. He was born in a canebreak by an old mama lion who abandoned him before he was weaned. He became a thing of nature and being a warrior was natural, so he found brutality in WWI and as a soldier-of-fortune, he was shot five times, died and during which time he had an aberration in which he was rebuked as having died. He was informed by a small garish woman with a monkey on her shoulder that he wasn't dead…just gone! He swore...
| Автор | Welby T Cox |
Lech Lenahan came from a warring family…though the last of the clan had long since left Ireland; he inherited the family loss of land, its income and a way of life… taken by Cromwell, England’s bloodiest, most cruel soldier, given to others because they were Protestant.<br /><br />His grand-father and father had taught him the value of freedom from the time he was old enough to know…his choice to fight for it in the great Civil War was a natural reaction, waiting to happen.<br...
| Автор | Welby Thomas Cox, Jr. |
Every now and then a little miracle is in order. Some see them, some feel them, some pray for them in every corner of the world, Aldo Selleri prayed for his identity. The Miracle of the Images is about one man, called upon by an Angel of God to paint a miracle to be contained in a portrait of the Holy Family. The portrait has never been seen by the faithful, by order of the Holy See. The painting, completed by the hand of the Blessed Virgin, contains divine images, the first to be revealed in...
| Автор | Welby Thomas Cox, Jr. |
Anjani returns! in this direct sequel to The Gold of Akada, Rita Perrivale, widow of an English explorer, goes back to the coast of West Africa. Having inherited her husband’s fortune, she spares no expense on this new venture to loot the legendary lost city of Akada of its treasures. But Rita had only survived the disastrous first expedition because of the help of Anjani, a white man of immense strength and stature who had been brought up in the jungle by a native tribe. Now Rita hopes to be...
| Автор | John Russell Fearn |
Harry Perrivale's expedition into the African jungle is destined to be singularly ill-fated. Accompanied by native bearers, his wife Rita, and trader Caleb Moon, he hopes to find the legendary lost city of Akada. Moon has a treasure map that had once belonged to an earlier explorer who'd met his death twenty years before. But Moon has plans to kill Perrivale, abduct Rita, and keep the gold and ivory of Akada for himself. Then the party encounters a giant white man, Anjani, who speaks...
| Автор | John Russell Fearn |
The fifth issue of Adventure Tales salutes pulp legend Achmed Abdullah, popular writer in the pulp magazines in the early 20th century, with two long stories – «Their Own Dear Land» and «The Remittance Woman.» Many of his stories deal with exotic locales, usually Oriental. But even his Occidental tales are of interest, well written and fast paced, often with an unexpected twist or two. Also included are «The Mid-Watch Tragedy,» a Jimmy Lavender detective story by Vincent Starrett, and «The...
| Автор | Vincent 1886-1974 Starrett |
THE INTIMATE SECRETS AND FABULOUS LIFE OF THE MOST FAMOUS WOMAN OF ALL TIME!<P> What was Cleopatra really like? How did she gain the power to make men and break nations – to make herself the most beguiling symbol of sex the world has ever known? Here is a sweeping exploration of the secret life and many loves of Egypt's fabled queen—her affairs with the great Julius Caesar and the lusty Mark Antony… the slave boys and gladiators who served her private pleasures… the strange erotic...
| Автор | Gardner Fox |
The year is 1978. Rudyard «Rudd» Kipling Six is a pilot and Vietnam war hero. Aloha Blaze is what her friends call «Your basic karate expert, sky-diving entrepreneur pilot, drop-dead gorgeous, four-point-zero student.» Together, they begin a stormy, steamy love affair that flares red-hot and grows even hotter. But time and circumstance intervene. Aloha flirts with a star quarterback and a mysterious Marine named Buddy, while Rudd encounters the lovely French tennis champion Colette and an...
| Автор | James B. Johnson |
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...
| Автор | James C. Glass |
Luling, Texas, once known as the “Toughest Town in Texas,” gets tougher when all hell breaks loose in this second installment of the Tom Seiler mystery trilogy by Jack Grubbs. The Dryline opens with Tom Seiler helping his brother, Don, with the final design of an oil extraction system potentially worth billions. When one of Don’s workers is found dead on the outskirts of Luling, a chain of events pits the brothers against a group of ruthless oilmen bent on stealing the patent to their design....
| Автор | Jack Grubbs |
Agapanthus was kidnapped when she was only two years old, but she doesn’t remember it. In fact, she doesn’t remember her home planet at all. All she knows is Deeyae, the land of two suns; the land of great, red waters. Her foster-family cares for her, and at first that’s enough. But, as she grows older, Agapanthus is bothered by the differences between them. As an Exchanger, she’s frail and tall, not short and strong. And, even though she was raised...
| Автор | Francesca G. Varela |
In The Middle Of The Night, The Sisterhood Is Your Only Hope A Sister’s work is never done—not when there are wrongs to right and underdogs to defend. Just returned to their mountaintop hideaway after their latest successful mission, the seven fearless friends enjoy a celebratory dinner and retire to bed. But within an hour, an alarm sounds, and the ladies rush into the compound in time to see Myra and their mentor, Charles, climbing aboard a helicopter. All that’s left is a mysterious note,...
| Автор | Fern Michaels |
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...
| Автор | Fern Michaels |
A Friend In Need…Needs The Sisterhood When it comes to repaying a debt, the women of the Sisterhood—Myra, Annie, Kathryn, Alexis, Yoko, Nikki, and Isabelle—never forget. And now one of their allies needs help only they can give. A powerful attorney with a cut-throat reputation, Lizzie Fox has just taken on a high-profile new client—Lily Flowers, the Madam of a high-end bordello operating under the guise of a summer camp.The chips—a.k.a. the prominent Washington politicians who frequent the...
| Автор | Fern Michaels |