Author: F.M. Parker
Publisher: eBook Partnership
ISBN: 1908400579
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 214

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Luke Coldiron comes to wild San Francisco during the gold rush to play highs stakes poker. Tom Gallatin, the white guard for Yang's Chinatown empire, falls in love with Yang's beautiful Chinese slave girl, Ging. When card cheats rob Coldiron and Yang sends his hatchet men to kill Tom, Luke, Tom and Ging must join forces to kill to survive.

Author: P. J. Alderman
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0553906925
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 434

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RITA-nominated author P. J. Alderman weaves present-day supernatural sleuthery with nineteenth-century intrigue in the first book of an enchanting new mystery series set in picturesque Port Chatham, Washington. Jordan Marsh left L.A. for the quaint Pacific Northwest town of Port Chatham in pursuit of some much-needed R & R. As the prime suspect in her cheating husband’s murder, she had been hoping to immerse herself in the restoration of the charming Victorian she’d just bought—and put all talk of homicide investigations behind her. But as she soon discovers, the coldest of cases cry out to be solved, too. For this old house comes fully furnished—with two garrulous ghosts who have a century-old murder of their own they’d like her to look into. Now, if Jordan can keep the L.A. police at bay, and sort through a suspect list of shady characters circa 1890, she might just clear a wrongly accused man’s name—and her own. From the Paperback edition.

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Languages : en
Pages : 714

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Category : Labor unions
Languages : en
Pages : 716

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Author: F. M. Parker
Publisher: eBook Partnership
ISBN: 1783010541
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 165

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Dan Gallatin returns to Chicago after years of combat as a Marine in Iraq and Afghanistan. The killing and the dying haunts him. He has become a violent man quick to anger and strike out with his hard fists. He is studying to be a Doctor of Neuroscience at the U. of Chicago, wanting to use that knowledge to heal himself of his violent urges, and to help the many veterans whose minds have been warped by combat. He earns his living by brutal bare knuckle fighting in the iron cages on the Chicago waterfront, and as the peace-keeper (bouncer) at the tough Bank Vault Club in South Chicago. Dan rescues Ethan, a crippled veteran, from muggers, and joins him in a dream session with Colonel Granville. The colonel received a severe head wound during combat. By some strange twist of fate, the injury has given him the ability to see human auras, and the power to lead scores of injured veterans into dream sessions. In the dreams, the crippled vet can run, the blind can see, all can make love with beautiful women. During the dreams, the colonel works to heal the damaged minds of the vets. They call him Colonel Dreamer Maker. Granville sees Dan's aura showing the conflict within him, and his violent nature and also his desire not to be violent. He hires Dan to find and stop the man stalking him, the multiple killer Anubis. Dan is thrust into deadly danger between Granville and the killer.Kristin Childs, a Marine veteran, accidentally shot and killed a woman and her little daughter during a fire fight in Baghdad. In hellish nightmares, she shoots the two over and over again. She becomes trapped in Dan's deadly battle with the killer Anubis and must fight for her life. From The Hitcher:Visible to Dan was a young woman, in her mid twenties he judged, wearing a Marine fatigue jacket over black slacks. She was placing a strip of rug on the floor just inside the door of the veterans' hall in preparation to participate in the coming dream session with Colonel Granville. She appeared weary, her face pale and holding a drawn, haunted expression with the skin tight over the bones beneath. Dan turned to the colonel who was staring out at the crowd of veterans. The colonel called out in a gentle voice, "e;Young woman there in the back. Would you please leave?"e; "e;No, I won't leave,"e; said the woman in a firm voice and straightened to stand very erect. "e;I'm a vet and I've seen combat. I've heard about you and I could use some help to stop my headaches and bad dreams."e;"e;I can see that you're a vet,"e; replied the colonel, "e;but this session is for men and wouldn't be proper for you."e;"e;Let me be the judge of that,"e; the woman said, her tone even more unyielding."e;I would like to do that."e; The colonel's voice held a patient tone. "e;But the men will ask for dreams that I know wouldn't be acceptable to a woman."e; A vet jumped up from his blanket near Kristin and grabbed her by the shoulder. "e;You're wasting our time,"e; he said angrily. "e;Get out like the colonel said."e;The man spun the woman around and shoved her toward the door. She jerked free and thrust the man away."e;I'm not leaving,"e; she cried out angrily. "e;Now keep your damn hands off me."e;"e;You sure as hell are,"e; said the man, and moved to take hold of the woman again.Dan exploded up from his blanket on the floor and stepped in between the man and woman. He stiff armed the man and stopped him dead in his tracks."e;Easy, fellow. No rough stuff with the girl."e;The man swung a quick fist at Dan. Who blocked the blow and glared threateningly at the man."e;You try that again and I'll knock your face to the back of your head."e;

Author: Jake Logan
Publisher: Berkley
ISBN: 0515154938
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194

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THE FINAL NOVEL IN TODAY'S LONGEST-RUNNING ACTION WESTERN! Down on his luck in San Francisco, John Slocum takes a contract with the Central California Railroad. He's given the difficult task of locating a stolen shipment of silver worth over one hundred thousand dollars, but he catches a break when he discovers that the company's attractive secretary, Tamara, was an accomplice in the robbery. Too bad his employer would rather believe in the thief's feminine wiles than in Slocum's cold hard facts. Fuming mad and out of work, Slocum starts looking to let off some steam. But when Tamara offers Slocum a new job--finding where the rest of the robbers stowed the loot--he has a hard time saying no to the seductive crook, or to a change of fortune. Still, Slocum knows he has to keep his cards close to the chest, or else he might end up six feet under...

Author: F. M. Parker
Publisher: eBook Partnership
ISBN: 1908400625
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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With an awesome list of stirring Westerns novels, F. M. Parker has won acclaim as a master spellbinder. In The Slavers, he has achieved a new personal best, bringing alive the high drama and true-grit realities of the Western past.The year is 1877. The scene is Mexico City. A young American, Ken Larraway, has come to study under the legendary master of weaponry, Louis Calleja.Larraway is forced to turn from student to slayer while trying to save his teacher from death in an unfair duel with the son of Ramos Zaldivar the most powerful caudillo in Mexico.With a handpicked killing crew from Zaldivar's private army on his trail and a bounty of a fortune on his head, Larraway flees north toward Texas, fighting his way through the rugged deserts and mountains where the only law comes out of a gun. There is no safety from Zaldivar's blood rage, and when Larrawy stumbles upon the town of Janos settled by a sect of polygamous Americans in a secluded, mountain valley, he finds not sanctuary but fresh danger.Zaldivar knows of this strange colony of Janos and has raided it again and again to feed his and other powerful men's appetite for young, fair women as slaves to their desires. The settler's last hope against Zaldivar's rapacious reach is Larraway's skill with a pistol. If he agrees to face off against the most feared gunfighter in the land, Ramos Zaldivar himself.Set against a background of Mexico on the brink of civil war between powerful Mexican caudillos and President Diaz, and revealing a little-known chapter of history in the lost colony of Janos, The Slavers combines authenticity with non-stop action and suspense. It is a thrilling reading experience.Author's notes from The SlaversJanos truly existed--for a few short years.The first United States law prohibiting polygamy was passed in 1862. Men with plural wives soon began to migrate south to settle in northern Mexico-a place they hoped would be a sanctuary from persecution. Janos was settled in 1863. A second more stringent federal law was passe in 1882. The flow of polygamist into Mexico accelerated. An even tougher law was passed in 1887. The numberof emigres to Mexico grew greatly. In total, several thousand American men and women and their children, founded twenty settlements in Mexico.The bloodiest of Mexican revolutions began in1910. Battles between the opposing forces were fought almost everywhere. One million people were slain out a national population of fifteen million. Many rebel chieftains sprang into being during these times. Soldiers deserted the federal army and formed marauding bands. Bandits rode all over the back country.The American settlements, where each man had several wives, were prime targets for the large bands of men roving about the country. The gangs invaded the towns and raped the women, forcing "e;favors"e; as they called it. A rapid exodus of the American polygamists began. They streamed north, abandoning years of labor and fertile land, to settle in secluded valleys in the desert southwest of the United States.

Author: Marcia Muller
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0765331748
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 273

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In 1890s San Francisco, former Pinkerton operative Sabina Carpenter and her detective partner, ex-Secret Service agent John Quincannon, tackle two seemingly unrelated cases that are complicated by two murders and the interference of Sherlock Holmes.

Author: F.M. Parker
Publisher: eBook Partnership
ISBN: 1908400358
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 310

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Escaping from a Comanche raid that killed their parents, sixteen year old Sam Tollin and his strikingly beautiful thirteen year old sister Sarah, race to Tucson seeking help. Young and inexperienced, they become easy prey of ruthless men. Before they can get to the law or the army, their money is stolen and they are kidnapped and hauled off on a Mexican wagon train to be sold as slaves in Mexico.However one of Sam's and Sarah's captors has made an enemy of Two Foxes, a Comanche warrior. Two Foxes stalks the wagon train seeking revenge on the Mexican. While killing his enemy, Two Foxes helps Sam to escape. Sam can not help Sarah escape and still escape himself. He vows to Sarah that he will return and rescue her. He leaves, filled with his need for vengeance against the Mexicans and to keep his vow to rescue his beloved sister. If he can survive long enough.

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Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595226094
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 467

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