Author: Mark Lesly
Publisher: British Amer Pub Limited
ISBN: 9780945167082
Category : Self-defense (Law)
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Get Book Here
Book Description
A juror in the Berhnard Goetz trial offers his observations on the noted case, profiling the personalities of the major players and outlining the scope of information with which the jury had to work
Author: Richard Dawes
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1612359132
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 141
Get Book Here
Book Description
In Gunman, the Tucson Kid is hired by a businessman to track down and kill a band of outlaws who have kidnapped his daughter and taken her into the Badlands. In the Badlands, Tucson is captured by a tribe of rogue Comanche; it's only by passing a series of ordeals that he can win his freedom. When he finally reaches the lair of the outlaws, Tucson must use all of his fighting skills to defeat them.
Author: Jean-Patrick Manchette
Publisher: City Lights Publishers
ISBN: 0872866963
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Get Book Here
Book Description
"His books are all action, unfolding with a laconic efficiency that would make his killers proud."—The Economist Martin Terrier is a hired killer who wants out of the game—so he can settle down and marry his childhood sweetheart. After all, that's why he took up this profession! But "the company" won't let him go: they have other plans. Once again, the gunman must assume the prone firing position. A tour de force, this violent tale shatters as many illusions about life and politics as it does bodies. Jean-Patrick Manchette subjects his characters and the reader alike to a fierce exercise in style. This tightly plotted, corrosive parody of "the success story" is widely considered to be Manchette's masterpiece, and was named a New York Times "Notable Book." The Prone Gunman is a classic of modern noir. "For Manchette and the generation of writers who followed him, the crime novel is no mere entertainment, but a means to strip bare the failures of society, ripping through veils of appearance, deceit, and manipulation to the greed and violence that are the society's true engines."—Boston Globe "There's not a superfluous word or overdone effect . . . one of the last cool, compact and shockingly original crime novels Manchette left as his legacy to modern noir fiction."—New York Times "For the first time readers can experience in English translation the masterful thriller considered Manchette's finest, proof positive that the French knew what they were talking about when they labeled this sort of novel 'noir'."—Publishers Weekly "This superbly muscular translation of the late French mystery writer Jean-Patrick Manchette's most celebrated work, The Prone Gunman, is the third volume issued [by] City Lights Noir. The series may prove to be the most needed contribution to contemporary fiction by any publisher in a good long while."—The San Francisco Chronicle Jean-Patrick Manchette was a French crime novelist credited with reinventing and reinvigorating the genre. He wrote ten short novels in the 1970s and early 80s, and is widely recognized as the foremost French crime fiction author of that time. His stories are violent, existentialist explorations of the human condition and French society. Jazz saxophonist and screenwriter, Manchette was also a left-wing activist influenced as much by the writings of the Situationist International as by Dashiell Hammett. Jean-Patrick Manchette's Three to Kill as well as the movie tie-in The Gunman are also published by City Lights Publishers.
Author: Don Harvey
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1524693715
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Get Book Here
Book Description
As the leader of the Gunmans Element, Joshua is always ready to defend humanity. The Sooul were being harvested and were about to become extinct. Joshua has his mission, and the Sooul will survive if he has his say.
Author: D. A. Daugherty
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1647017459
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Get Book Here
Book Description
On a lonely road in the kingdom of Sarven, lone outlaw Jack Spade robs an unsuspecting merchant. This is no random crime, however. He was hired to steal a very specific thing: the mysterious Box of Andelaine, which has remained sealed for millennia despite the best efforts of all the world's most powerful sorcerers. It remained sealed, at least, until out of idle curiosity the gunman tried the lid, only for it to swing wide without protest. Even the simple act of opening a box and removing the seemingly unassuming necklace inside has dire consequences for the solitary roughrider. Between the cult of deadly warriors in the service of angels and the demonic rider who won't stay dead for long, the hounds of heaven and hell are out for blood. The worst part for their increasingly desperate quarry is that no one will even tell him why. Seemingly the only solution for the man is to trust the word of an enigmatic sorceress known only as Lucy and travel across a wide, trackless frontier to the foreign, unwelcoming land on the other side. Through it all, the lone gunman can never be quite sure whether or not he's on his last ride.
Author: Ethan Flagg
Publisher: Robert Hale Ltd
ISBN: 0719829593
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 117
Get Book Here
Book Description
Infamous gunslinger Wes Longbaugh is heading for his next job in Utah when he comes across a traveller cast afoot in Nevada's arid Humboldt Sink. Never one to turn the other cheek when help is needed, Wes intercepts the staggering loner. It turns out that Mace Farlow was the sole outlaw to survive a stagecoach robbery that had gone badly awry. All the other robbers had been gunned down due to the treachery of a turncoat. Mace tags along with his saviour but is determined to track the double-crosser down. Fate, however, takes a hand when trouble in the next town leads to flight and a stand off in a lonely canyon where Mace is killed. Before he dies, the aging outlaw makes his young sidekick promise to abandon the precarious life of a gunslinger. But this is far harder to achieve than Wes could ever have imagined.
Author: Malcolm Mackay
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
ISBN: 031633734X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Get Book Here
Book Description
The breathtaking, devastating second novel in the acclaimed Glasgow Trilogy, a Deanston Scottish Crime Book of the Year. How does a gunman retire? Frank MacLeod was the best at what he does. Thoughtful. Efficient. Ruthless. But with his health failing him, how long before he's no longer of use to his employers? A new job. A target. But something is about to go horribly wrong. And up-and-coming hitman Calum MacLean will be called upon to pick up the pieces. Most gunmen say goodbye to the world with a bang. Frank's still here. No longer in his prime, certainly. But with decades of experience at the top of his profession. Underestimating such a man could prove to be deadly.
Author: Ted Jackson
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595783902
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 85
Get Book Here
Book Description
A gunfighter, wishing to retire, attempts to pose as a schoolteacher. Initially, he is successful but circumstances force him to, once again, take up his guns. Wes Fairly: Gunman is somewhat of a love story but with plenty of action.
Author: Rod Miller
Publisher: Pinnacle Books
ISBN: 0786033088
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Get Book Here
Book Description
Harlow Had Been Sentenced To Die At Dawn. For The Town Of Los Santos, Dawn Couldn't Come Soon Enough. . . Everyone in Los Santos had crossed paths with Harlow at one time or another, from the days when he was a snot-nosed boy stealing from kitchen gardens and tormenting dogs to the moment he acquired his first taste for murder. Along the way, Harlow left town and started to burn, pillage, kill, rape, and steal his way west, until he came back home to rob a bank, slaughter an innocent man, and finally trip over the marshal's outstretched foot. Now, the folks of Los Santos have one last chance to bid Harlow farewell, from the innocents to whose lives he's shattered to the preacher who can't find it in his heart to pray for him; from the local soiled dove to an old man with a dark secret of his own. And as these citizens tell their stories, they can't help but wonder: why did Harlow Mackleprang go so very wrong--and are some people too evil to really die? "A powerful tale of hatred, vengeance and retribution. An imaginative yarn, well and uniquely done." --Jimmy Lee Butts, author of A Bad Day to Die "Gallows For a Gunman is a fine read." --Frank Roderus, Spur-winning author of Judgment Day "A new voice in the west that rings authentic." --Dusty Richards, author of From Hell to Breakfast
Author: William F. Martin
Publisher: Author House
ISBN: 1449083323
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Get Book Here
Book Description
San Francisco bustles with gold rush fever and excitement over the coming railroads. Into the middle of this roaring wild west arrives a young man with wits, poker skills and desires to get rich and build his own ranch and home. After nearly losing his life in a deadly fight over a card game, he's given a second chance by an elderly school teacher. As he follows his love for poker and his gun skills raise the stakes, can his determined mentor save him from falling to a faster gun?
