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Hawkshadow Pub. Co.. As New. 2002. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 444 pages. Orphaned by the sudden deaths of her parents in 1877, seventeen year-old Emma Jorden has to abandon her Kansas home. Lost on the featureless prairie and near death she is rescued by Shea Hawkshadow, a half-breed Cheyenne warrior. Following an impulsive love affair, Emma and Shea marry. When the consequences of their unconventional marriage spark ridicule then quickly escalate to attempted murder, they risk a journey across the western frontier. However, many trials await the couple in their search for a life free from persecution. Emma masks her increasingly fragile emotional state until years of repression exact a dreadful toll. She battles to unearth the innermost causes of her instability hindered by the lack of humane treatment for mental illnesses in the 19th Century. Emma's transformation from a guileless girl into a complex woman with an unflinching will to survive is remarkable and moving. The Bend… Read More

New York: Soho Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2002. First US Edition. Hardcover. Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Pale gray boards with red spine imprinted in silver with title and author. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . . 340 pages. A chance encounter in broad daylight. Three London policemen pull over a car and are gunned down. A number of people are irrevocably affected. Sid, a tabloid journalist who himself harbors more lurid personal scandal than anyone he condemns in print. Detective Sergeant Frank Taylor, officially on the rapid promotion track but increasingly conflicted about his identity as a cop and the hidden corruption in the department. Ex-soldier Billy Porter, who has drifted into a life of crime and onto the rapid track to perdition. His violent skills for survival are all he has. He is immensely sympathetic, and a killer. Like Puzo and Robert Daily before him, Jake Arnott finds in the private realities of marginalized, desperate… Read More

New York: St Martins Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Black binding with title and author imprinted on spine in copper. Map on endpapers. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 350 pages. Jake Grafton Novel, No. 8. Jake Grafton takes his wife, Callie, along when the U.S. government sends him to Hong Kong to find out how deeply the U.S. consul-general is embedded in a political money-raising scandal. And why not? Jake and Callie met and fell in love in Hong Kong during the Vietnam War, and the consul-general is an old friend from those days, Tiger Cole. The Graftons quickly discover that Hong Kong is a powder keg ready to explode. A political murder and the closure of a foreign bank by the communist government are the sparks that light the fuse . . . and Tiger Cole is right in the middle of the action. When Callie is kidnapped by a rebel faction, Jake finds himself drawn into the vortex of a high-tech… Read More

New York: Dutton. Fine. 2016. 1st premium mass market edition. Tall Mass Market Paperback. No spine crease. Includes excerpt from Ghosts of War. 529 pages. A Pike Logan Thriller, No. 8. In the eighth action-packed thriller in the New York Times bestselling Pike Logan series, ISIS, the most maniacal terrorist organization the modern world has ever seen, is poised to make their most audacious strike yet.The United States has anticipated and averted countless attacks from terrorist groups -- thanks in large part to the extralegal counterterrorist unit known as the Taskforce. But in THE INSIDER THREAT, a much more insidious evil is about to shatter the false sense of safety surrounding civilized nations. While world powers combat ISIS on the battlefield, a different threat is set in motion by the group -- one that can't be defeated by an airstrike. Off the radar of every Western intelligence organization, able to penetrate America or any European state, they intend to commit an act of… Read More

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Full number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2. 402 pages. Fargo Adventures, No. 2. While scuba diving in Tanzania, Sam and Remi Fargo come upon a relic belonging to a long-lost Confederate ship. An anomaly about the relic sets them off chasing a mystery—but unknown to them, a much more powerful force is engaged in the same chase. Mexico’s ruling party, the ultranationalist Mexica Tenochca, is intent on finding that artifact as well, because it contains a secret that could destroy the party utterly. Through Tanzania and Zanzibar, into the rainforests of Madagascar, and across the Indian Ocean to Indonesia and the legendary site of the 1883 Krakatoa explosion, the Fargos and their ruthless opponents pursue the hunt—but only one can win. And the penalty for failure is death. .

New York: St. Martin's Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2008.. First Edition. Hardcover. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 292 pages .

Denver, CO: Outskirts Press. Very Good. 2010. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Creasse on back cover. SIGNED by the AUTHOR on title page . 311 pages. Signed by Author. Vengeful outlaws tear through Dan Henry's peaceful picnic killing his family and seriously wounding his friend Texas Ranger Captain Tobin. Vowing for justice, Dan is sworn in as a Texas Ranger. Searching tirelessly, the hunt for these outlaws brings Dan Henry up against angry Indians, horse thieves and the most despicable human beings the likes Dan had never seen. The only bright star in a seemingly endless sea of evil and malevolence was the gentleness of one Miss Katy Barnett, who wants to put her brand on Dan too. .

New York: Random House. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Protected with a removable Brodart cover. . 1.6 x 9.5 x 6.5 Inches. 386 pages. Arkady Renko, No. 2. Arkady Renko has made too many enemies and now he toils in obscurity on a Russian factory ship in the middle of the Bering Sea. But when a female crew member is picked up dead with the day's catch, Arkady becomes obsessed with the case and once again discovers more than he wants to know and certainly more than he bargained for.... .

New York: Ballantine Books. Near Fine. 1981. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Minor edgewear . No spine crease. Mass Market Paperback. 181 pages. Indiana Jones, archeology professor and swashbuckling adventurer, has unearthed many an ancient treasure. But now the very future of the world depends on his finding one special relic.With a bullwhip in his hand and a beautiful lady at his side, Jones journeys from Nepal and Cairo to the Mediterranean, dodging poisons, traps and snakes, battling rivals old and new, all in pursuit of an ancient artifact said to give invincible power to its possessor.It's a battle to a startling finish, a finish dictated by the magic, the light -- and the power -- of the Lost Ark. .

New York: Random House. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Protected with a removable Brodart cover. Stated First Edition with Random House usual full number line beginning with 2. . . 418 pages. Arkady Renko, No. 3. Back from exile, Arkady Reko returns to find that his country, his Moscow, even his job, are nearly dead. Not so his enemies. Hounded by the Russian mafia, chased by ruthless minions of the newly rich and powerful, and tempted by his great love, Arkady can only hope for escape. Fate, however, has other ideas.... .

New York: Newmarket Press. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. 1.32 x 9.55 x 6.49 Inches. 384 pages. A world-renowned actor and an eminent underwater archaeologist have combined their remarkable talent and experience to write an amazing first novel--a rousing adventure of men and the sea, full of authentic historical and nautical detail, at once a morality tale and a saga of heroism, friendship and love. Jack O'Reilly is a 17-year old New Englander who in 1805, sails with his parents on the <I>Perdido Star</I> to Cuba, his mother's birthplace, to claim the land she has inherited. But for Jack, the trip that began with high hopes and the excitement of a new life, becomes a descent into violence and revenge. Tragedy strikes, Jack is forced to rejoin the <I>Star</I> as a member of the crew, sailing through the world's most treacherous waters under a drink-crazed captain. His soul seared and his heart calloused, his obsession to… Read More