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When Casino Executive Own McCombs discovers a dead gangster in the Mayor's car trunk he needs to find answers quick, not only to save the Mayor's political career but keep his own freedom - since Metro Homicide Detective Chastity Tempest Taggart, already pumped up from throwing her ex-husband in jail, is motivated to prove McCombs and the Mayor guilty!

Mark Hardin is known to his enemies as The Penetrator. He's part Cheyenne and he's never forgotten his past. In quest of his heritage, Mark Hardin has learned Indian skills: to track a man, but not to leave tracks; to speak his native language, in ancient dialects and sign language. His years of army service in Vietnam taught him other things. He's a sharpshooter with almost any weapon a man can hold; an expert with hand grenades, explosives, booby traps, and line mines; a black belt in karate and aikido.

The first subway station blew up while Mark Hardin was still en route from his stronghold in California, piloting a sleek new twin-engine plane. It was fast, but not fast enough to get him there in time to stop the 72nd Street IRT station from caving in, carrying a large section of Broadway with it. New York City is now under siege and being held for ransom. Mark Hardin must find those responsible, and fast. There are 42 subway stations in New York City, and time is running out.

Down on his luck after leaving the Army as a sharpshooter, Charlie Deegan winds up in the Yuma Territorial Prison for drunken brawling. Knowing he can't last out the remaining nine years of his sentence, he escapes determined to change his life.

When Russ Lang, sheriff of Twin Buttes, is killed trying to avert a bank robbery, his son, Todd, seeks revenge. Todd goes undercover posing as a cowhand to get a job at the Frying Pan Ranch, which is suspected of being a haven for crooks of ill repute. The Frying Pan Ranch had belonged to a Claude Fanning, who just up and disappeared. Now the ranch is being run by a rough fellow named Shep. Todd soon realizes he may never get off the ranch alive until he discovers Link, another cowboy like himself who turns out to be a detective for the Montana Wool Growers.

Grasshoppers in Summer examines the conflict between Native American plains tribes and the U.S. westward expansion from 1866 to 1876. It begins with the Fetterman massacre and negotiation of the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868. That treaty ended Red Cloud's war for control of the Bozeman Trail. President Ulysses S. Grant came to office a year later on a reform platform that included Indian peace policy. Relentless cultural, economic, political and religious pressure frustrated Grant's effort to reform Indian policy.

Epidemic! It began in the peaceful pastures of Wisconsin. Death had occurred from contaminated milk and dairy products, and the farmers stood by helplessly as their herds were condemned and slaughtered on nothing more than suspicion. US Public Health Service official Dr. Creighton Thornesby personally supervised the shooting of the cattle. He wanted to prevent future outbreaks - or did he?

When vacationers aboard the cruise liner Royal Princess are being thrown overboard two at a time, a lightning-quick response is needed. And the Specialists respond with violent force, uncovering a shadowy terrorist group, the Sword of Allah.

Second Contact, The Seeds of Orion is the second book of a series that sets out the spread of mankind and Orion’s descendants into the galaxy. It takes the listener on a journey of the human race to new worlds. From populating one planet to expanding into the universe and, as it has for thousands of years, doing what it had to do to survive.

When an American dies under suspicious circumstances in Berlin, the Specialists are called in to investigate. The victim was trying to track down a missing fortune that belonged to his Jewish grandfather during World War II. It was part of a secret stash extorted by a corrupt Nazi unit offering escape to Jews bound for concentration camps. Except the Nazis kept the loot and sent most of their prisoners to their deaths. After the war, both the Nazis and the fortune disappeared.

FDLE agent Bill Tasker’s boss is worried about the stress Tasker’s been under, but he has a solution. The governor wants somebody from the outside to take a look into an inmate homicide at Manatee Correctional Prison, and the boss figures he can do the state a favor and give Tasker a break at the same time. Some break. Turns out there’s a whole lot going on at Manatee. The prison captain likes to enforce discipline by fairly unorthodox methods. The psych ward has been known to misplace a mental patient occasionally....

Cynthia and Abigail Hartford leave their millinery shop in the east to inspect a cattle ranch in Rockland, Wyoming, that they inherited from their deceased brother. The ranch, according to local gossip is "hexed". "Ranch hands are dying like flies," they're told. The two women are offered a fraction of the ranch's value by a shyster attorney. Undaunted, they hire Slim Bates, a tough, no-nonsense ramrod with a hard fist and quick gun-hand to take over the ranch. Ghost or no ghost, the ladies are determined to move in....

Jim Mosby was just a tad under 17 when he left Texas. But he was as tough as they come and quick with a gun. Ending up in Missouri, he found a job with the Pony Express where he gained a new friend named Matt Rossiter. When the Pony Express went out of business, the two sidekicks found work in various jobs. They were scouts for the U.S. Cavalry, meat-hunters for the mines, and finally took a hand at gold mining. They found a fortune in gold. To commemorate their good fortune Matt made a bullet of gold. A bullet that fulfills a deadly destiny...

In the frigid waters off the coast of Alaska, Coast Guard Petty Officer Josh Stewart volunteers to attempt a daring underwater rescue of a passenger from a downed seaplane. This incident becomes the catalyst that launches his Coast Guard career as a Rescue Swimmer. After many other life threatening rescues, Josh finds himself and the crew of a ship facing their ultimate test of courage and strength in a powerful storm off the Pacific Coast while en route to save the victims of a ship wreck.

During the frontier days, North Dakota was considered the land of opportunity by hardy pioneers eager to settle on 160 free acres offered by the government. All they had to do was prove up on the land for three years and it was theirs. The Morgan family found proving up was no simple task. The prairie they experienced was a killer - hot and dry in the summer, numbing cold in the winter, torrential rains that turned their sod house into a dripping muddy mess, tornadoes, prairie fires, and hordes of insects.

Prim and proper Becky Hurst leaves the frontier town of Seattle and travels alone to the Yukon to join her ne'er-do-well husband. But things don't turn out like she planned. Becky learns worldly truths that were suppressed while sheltered in her parents' home. Her survival is soon linked to her quick wit and new found prowess with firearms. Proper manners fall by the wayside as she grows stronger and trailwise, challenging the wilderness on its own terms. Becky learns to survive and endure in a man's world, but at what cost...

Upon the death of her father, Kim Demming has no alternative but to leave Seattle and go live with her uncle in Arrowhead, Wyoming. On the way, she meets Steve Owens a drifting cowhand who decides to look for work in Arrowhead. Neither of the two are aware of the serious roles they are about to play in Wyoming. Kim knew her uncle owned a ranch, but she didn't have any idea it was a sheep ranch located in cattle country. Nor was she aware of the range war brewing. Both Kim and Steve are hell-bent for trouble....

Irish immigrant Michael Callahan gets the gold fever and stakes a claim in California. Just when persistence and ingenuity finally payoff, he is jumped by thieves intent upon taking his gold and his life. Michael is saved by Joaquin Murieta with whom he strikes up a friendship. The friendship is quite unusual and the Irishman becomes known as the Gringo Amigo.

Just as the big trees of the Pacific Northwest inspired the legend of Paul Bunyan, so did the Palouse Hills of southeastern Washington--where fantastic fields of wheat were raised on incredibly steep slopes--spawn tall tales about farmers, steamboat men, and the ingenious methods they used to get their grain to market. Though thirty-three-mule hitches and headers (whose downhill wheels were three times larger than the uphill ones) solved the harvesting problems, transporting the sacked grain two thousand vertical feet down to the steamboat landings took sheer genius.

How much do you owe a past love? Ever wonder about it? Private Detective Ron Shade does when he bumps into his former lover, Paula Kittermann, late one lonely December night in a hotel bar. Paula had once been a major factor in Shade’s life, but that was a very long time ago. Against his better judgement, he lets her back in, but when she’s gone, without so much as a goodbye kiss, leaving him once with only bittersweet memories of what might have been. Then Paula turns up dead, the apparent victim of a hit-and-run accident. Though shocked, Shade moves on with his life until Paula’s young cousin, Laurie, shows up in Chicago, asking him to look into the matter. Shade’s investigation takes a walk on the seedy side, and begins to attract the attention of some very powerful enemies. But whenever Shade gets close to the truth, somebody seems to end up dead, and he suddenly finds himself the prime suspect in a homicide investigation. Working to clear himself and find out who killed Paula, Shade goes up against some redoubtable foes who will stop at nothing to ensure his search for the truth won’t be completed.