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Author: John Creasey Publisher: House of Stratus ISBN: 0755152182 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 201
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There appears to be an organised plan to attack the police, orchestrated by a horrifyingly brutal and ruthless gang. Who are they, and why are they conducting this terrifying campaign? It turns out to be a truly sensational case and, of course, Scotland Yard would only field one man against this kind of danger: Inspector Roger ‘Handsome’ West.
Author: John Creasey Publisher: House of Stratus ISBN: 0755152182 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 201
Book Description
There appears to be an organised plan to attack the police, orchestrated by a horrifyingly brutal and ruthless gang. Who are they, and why are they conducting this terrifying campaign? It turns out to be a truly sensational case and, of course, Scotland Yard would only field one man against this kind of danger: Inspector Roger ‘Handsome’ West.
Author: Todd Strasser Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1439115214 Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 138
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Todd Strasser’s acclaimed account of school violence that Kirkus Reviews calls “vivid, distressing, and all too real.” For as long as they can remember, Brendan and Gary have been mercilessly teased and harassed by the jocks who rule Middletown High. But not anymore. Stealing a small arsenal of guns from a neighbor, they take their classmates hostage at a school dance. In the panic of this desperate situation, it soon becomes clear that only one thing matters to Bendan and Gary: revenge.
Author: Jack Olsen Publisher: Crime Rant Books ISBN: Category : True Crime Languages : en Pages : 448
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The war between society and the antisocial personality has long been a subject of fascination, and few have explored it as thoroughly as award-winning author Jack Olsen. In his national best seller Son: A Psychopath and His Victims, Olsen studied a psychopathic rapist who found the perfect protective coloration in jogging shoes and sweats. In this book, the story of Claude Lafayette Dallas, Jr., Olsen takes on perhaps his most challenging assignment -- explicating the curious relationship between a homicidal young "mountain man" and those who saw in his colorful ways the embodiment of the cowboy mystique of the West. On a snow-blown day, Dallas killed two game wardens who entered his trapping and poaching camp in ldaho's Owyhee Desert. The cold-bloodedness of Dallas's crime shocked the West. Stained with his victim's blood. he confessed to a companion, "This is Murder One for me." Then Claude Dallas vanished into the wild and rugged mountains that had sheltered him for so long. For fifteen long months he was the subject of an international manhunt until the FBI and a drawling country sheriff joined forces to run him to earth in a rain of bullets. Only then did lawmen learn about the network of friends who had helped him elude capture. To some of Dallas's rustic neighbors the deadly progression from cowboy to poacher to killer seemed justifiable, even admirable. Clanking around the bars and barrancas of the high desert country in his hand-filed spurs and well-oiled guns, Claude Dallas had brought a strange new madness to the mythology of the West, a madness that even a jury of his peers found nostalgically seductive in a sensational trial. Claude Dallas came within a whisker of going free. Only Jack Olsen, through painstaking research into Dallas's background and exhaustive on-the-scene interviewing, could unravel such a rat's nest of contradictions and confusions and create so compelling a portrait of the killer whose bloody deeds might have been foreordained from childhood. From Publishers Weekly Claude Dallas Jr. was raised in Upper Michigan and Ohio by a father whose philosophy was "give a boy a gun and you're makin' a man." After high school, the young man went to the rugged border area of Idaho, Oregon and Nevada and worked as a cow-puncher and handyman on several ranches. But his dream was evidently to become a 19th centurystyle mountain man and so he turned to poaching, often killing animals even though he had no need for the meat. In 1981, he killed two game wardens in front of a witness. On the run for 15 months, he was eventually captured in a shootout and found guilty of manslaughter in a singularly bizarre trial. From Library Journal ``Give a boy a gun and you're makin' a man,'' Claude Dallas, Sr., is quoted as saying in this book about his son, Claude Jr., a self-made cowboy, trapper, and ``mountain man'' who was convicted of manslaughter in the shooting deaths of two Idaho game wardens. Claude Jr. was well-liked by many, including a sympathetic jury which rejected possible first or second degree murder verdicts. Was it a case of self-defense or outright murder? Olsen, who last wrote the popular `` Son'': a psychopath and his victims ( LJ 11/15/83), skillfully presents his viewpoint in a readable tale more reminiscent of Old West traditions than of the 1980s. Recommended.
Author: Noel Perrin Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher ISBN: 9780879237738 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 140
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Lord Hideyoshi, the regent of Japan at the time, took the first step toward the control of firearms. It was a very small step, and it was not taken simply to protect feudal lords from being shot at by peasants but to get all weapons out of the hands of civilians. He said nothing about arms control. Instead, he announced that he was going to build a statue of Buddha that would make all existing statues look like midgets. It would be so enormous (the figure was about twice the scale of the Statue of Liberty), that many tons of iron would be needed just for the braces and bolts. Still more was required to erect the accompanying temple, which was to cover a piece of ground something over an eighth of a mile square. All farmers, ji-samurai, and monks were invited to contribute their swords and guns to the cause. They were, in fact, required to. -- from publisher description.
Author: Ben A. Watford Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1469110857 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 325
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Jumo Gumasaka was very young when he was captured and shipped to the Americas in a slave ship. He was a slave until the coming of the war between the North and the South. During the War Between the States he served in the First Regiment of South Carolina Volunteers. It was during the war that Jumo become a marksman with the long gun. After the war he returns to his old plantation only to fi nd that it has been burned to the ground and all the people that he has known are either dead or gone. In the years following the Civil war this ex-slave obtains a colt revolver. With this handgun he leaves the South and heads west. He travels with his friend and traveling companion a mule that he calls Nellie. He fi nds that he has natural ability with the fast draw and is extremely accurate when shooting the six-shooter. His gun becomes an extension of his arm and his uncanny ability with the gun leads to the demise of many opponents. He spends time with the plains Indians and becomes a renowned warrior. He becomes a legend among Plains Indians in their quest for justice. He continues west fi nding that many individuals would like to kill him because he is a black man with a gun. During his travels west he is called by many different names, Eagle Eye, the name given to him by the Plains Indians is the one that he fi nally accepts. His many encounters with would be killers in his travels westward lead to many interesting adventures.
Author: Surazeus Astarius Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1365807142 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 672
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"My American Harp" presents 1,169 poems written 2010-2014 by Surazeus that explore what it means to be an American in the modern world of an interconnected global civilization.
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