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Author : Robert B. Parker
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 22,5 MB
Release : 2002-06-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1101546360

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Boston P.I. Spenser returns—heading west to the rich man’s haven of Potshot, Arizona, a former mining town reborn as a paradise for Los Angeles millionaires looking for a place to escape the pressures of their high-flying lifestyles. Potshot overcame its rough reputation as a rendezvous for old-time mountain men who lived off the land, thanks to a healthy infusion of new blood and even newer money. But when this western idyll is threatened by a local gang—a twenty-first-century posse of desert rats, misfits, drunks, and scavengers—the local police seem powerless. Led by a charismatic individual known only as The Preacher, this motley band of thieves selectively exploits the town, nurturing it as a source of wealth while systematically robbing the residents blind. Enter Spenser, who has been hired by the comely Mary Lou Buckman to investigate the murder of her husband. The Buckmans, a pair of L.A. transplants, moved to Potshot and started a modest outdoor tour service. It is Mary Lou’s belief that when her husband refused to pay The Preacher and his men protection money he was killed. Without any witnesses, Spenser has little to go on, and it’s clear the local police chief won’t be doing much to help. Calling on his own cadre of tried-and-true cohorts, including Vinnie Morris, Bobby Horse, Chollo, Bernard J. Fortunato, Tedy Sapp and the redoubtable Hawk, Spenser must find a way to beat the gang at their own dangerous game.

Author : John McGrath
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 14,56 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Drama
ISBN :

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Marie is a nobody, thirty-three, two kids, a husband who stays out a bit; a working-class woman cocooned inside her own enforced domesticity. Noe day she stops to have a think - nothing very special - but it ends up with her throwing her husband out. And so she is launched into the world, hopeful and trusting.

Author : Berry Stainback
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 37,30 MB
Release : 2005-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0595363628

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It was apparent that her father did not want to see her. She went back to her room, her disappointment draining the pleasure she had derived from her payback of Gruen. When the father you'd searched for such a long time refused to even speak to you no revenge could be all that sweet. Irma Latrope, a beautiful and feisty temptress, is a self-made survivor. Overcoming an uncle's abuse and her father's abandonment, she learns to trust no one. She calls upon her seductiveness, cunningness and innate intelligence to reach the pinnacle of her profession and ultimately becomes a millionaire porn queen. But her seemingly successful life-haunted by the shadows of her lurid past-is suddenly shattered by the pursuit of a killer. The embrace of countless men can never fulfill the void in her life left by the absent father she loves. Will reuniting with her father be the salvation that Irma has sought for thirty years?

Author : Carl P Lavo
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 37,46 MB
Release : 2013-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1612513344

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Vice Admiral Allan Rockwell McCann left no reminiscences that might reveal a deeper sense of his extraordinary service, but naval historian Carl LaVO has filled that void by writing this revealing—and often inspiring—biography. Among McCann’s many accomplishments: Served as liaison officer for the modification of the antiquated O-12 submarine into the privately-leased Nautilus that made the first attempt to sail beneath the Arctic ice shelf in 1931; pioneered the McCann Submarine Rescue Chamber; directed fire from the sub tender Pelias at Japanese aircraft attacking Pearl Harbor; commanded the battleship Iowa during the Battle of Leyte Gulf; was Chief of Staff of the Navy’s 10th Fleet that stymied a last ditch effort to attack North America via U-boats; headed the Navy task force that transported President Truman to the Potsdam conference; and as ComSubPac was aboard the first submarine to navigate under the polar ice in 1947. This book is an overdue appreciation of a significant admiral who has been all but ignored in naval history.

Author : Gerry Boyle
Publisher : Putnam Adult
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 11,65 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780399142598

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On assignment for a story on marijuana, sleuth Jack McMorrow interviews a grower in Maine who is leading a movement to legalize it. When the grower is abducted by drug dealers, police write him off as dead, but his wife thinks he is alive and at her request Jack and a friend take on the dangerous task of looking for him. By the author of Lifeline.

Author : Robert B. Parker
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 50,16 MB
Release : 2001-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1101203854

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"It's easy to see why Parker's snappy banter and cynical eye have kept fans turning pages for 25 years . . . his wisecracks, combined with Parker's shorthand flair for scathing characterization, make for a satisfying read," said Entertainment Weekly of last year's Hush Money. Now Parker presents Spenser with a deceptively dangerous and multi-layered case: Someone has been killing racehorses at stables across the south, and the Boston P.I. travels to Georgia to protect the two-year-old destined to become the next Secretariat. When Spenser is approached by Walter Clive, president of Three Fillies Stables, to find out who is threatening his horse Hugger Mugger, he can hardly say no: He's been doing pro bono work for so long his cupboards are just about bare. Disregarding the resentment of the local Georgia law enforcement, Spenser takes the case. Though Clive has hired a separate security firm, he wants someone with Spenser's experience to supervise the operation. Despite a veneer of civility, Spenser encounters tensions beneath the surface southern gentility. The case takes an even more deadly turn when the attacker claims a human victim, and Spenser must revise his impressions of the whole Three Fillies organization--and watch his own back as well. With razor-sharp dialogue, eloquently spare prose, and some of the best supporting characters to grace the printed page, Hugger Mugger is grand entertainment.

Author : Robert B. Parker
Publisher : No Exit Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 22,45 MB
Release : 2014-02-27
Category : Detective and mystery stories
ISBN : 9781843442295

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Spenser returns; heading west to the rich man's haven of Potshot, Arizona, a former mining town reborn as a paradise for Los Angeles millionaires. Potshot overcame its rough reputation as a rendezvous for old-time mountain men who lived off the land, thanks to a healthy infusion of new blood and even newer money. But when this western idyll is threatened by a local gang, a 21st century posse of desert rats, misfits, drunks and scavengers, the local police seem powerless. Enter Spenser, called in to put the group out of business and establish a police force.

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Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 16,17 MB
Release : 2013-08-27
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0763666890

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Resolving to earn so much money that his mother will no longer stress out over the bills, eleven-year-old Timmy Failure launches a detective business with a lazy polar bear partner named Total but finds their enterprise "Total Failure, Inc." challenged by a college-bound spy and a four-foot-tall girl whom Timmy refuses to acknowledge.