Download or read book Chief of Thieves written by Steven W. Kohlhagen and published by Sunstone Press. This book was released on 2015-06-15 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: August 1863 finds two con artists traveling with their embezzled cash to build their dream ranch in Washington Territory. But some Cheyenne Indians have different plans for those white settlers heading west, plans that cause the story of our con artists to become three stories. Chief of Thieves, the sequel to Kohlhagen’s Where They Bury You, takes the reader into the disasters of early Western ranch life and the births of lawless Wyoming towns; inside Cheyenne villages and tipis, where this hunting civilization of people, called “the greatest horsemen and cavalry the world ever saw,” lived, raided, and were attacked and massacred as they slept; and into the relentlessly driven lives, internal conflicts, and battles of George Armstrong Custer and his Seventh Cavalry. The three stories interweave at an ever-quickening pace, from Colorado negotiations to battles in Oregon, Wyoming. Kansas, and what is now Montana, including the massacres at Sand Creek and the Washita River, before culminating on a beautiful June 1876 day on the Little Bighorn River. Custer’s Little Bighorn decisions under fire in real time become understandable on these pages as death comes to historical and fictional characters, con artists, U.S. soldiers, and Cheyenne alike, and the three stories merge climactically on that fateful day in American history. Chief of Thieves is based on the factual story of how Lieutenant Augustyn P. Damours conned the U.S. Army, the Catholic Church, and the New Mexico Territory out of millions of today’s dollars.
Download or read book The Orchid Thief written by Susan Orlean and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2011-07-20 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK A modern classic of personal journalism, The Orchid Thief is Susan Orlean’s wickedly funny, elegant, and captivating tale of an amazing obsession. Determined to clone an endangered flower—the rare ghost orchid Polyrrhiza lindenii—a deeply eccentric and oddly attractive man named John Laroche leads Orlean on an unforgettable tour of America’s strange flower-selling subculture, through Florida’s swamps and beyond, along with the Seminoles who help him and the forces of justice who fight him. In the end, Orlean—and the reader—will have more respect for underdog determination and a powerful new definition of passion. In this new edition, coming fifteen years after its initial publication and twenty years after she first met the “orchid thief,” Orlean revisits this unforgettable world, and the route by which it was brought to the screen in the film Adaptation, in a new retrospective essay. Look for special features inside. Join the Random House Reader’s Circle for author chats and more. Praise for The Orchid Thief “Stylishly written, whimsical yet sophisticated, quirkily detailed and full of empathy . . . The Orchid Thief shows [Orlean’s] gifts in full bloom.”—The New York Times Book Review “Fascinating . . . an engrossing journey [full] of theft, hatred, greed, jealousy, madness, and backstabbing.”—Los Angeles Times “Orlean’s snapshot-vivid, pitch-perfect prose . . . is fast becoming one of our national treasures.”—The Washington Post Book World “Orlean’s gifts [are] her ear for the self-skewing dialogue, her eye for the incongruous, convincing detail, and her Didion-like deftness in description.”—Boston Sunday Globe “A swashbuckling piece of reporting that celebrates some virtues that made America great.”—The Wall Street Journal
Download or read book Thief Of Thieves 39 written by Brett Lewis and published by Image Comics. This book was released on 2018-08-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Conrad Paulson… lives? But he’s stuck in prison. In Russia. In the dead of winter. Surely, it’ll be a piece of cake to break him out, right?"
Download or read book Den of Thieves written by James B. Stewart and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-11-20 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A #1 bestseller from coast to coast, Den of Thieves tells the full story of the insider-trading scandal that nearly destroyed Wall Street, the men who pulled it off, and the chase that finally brought them to justice. Pulitzer Prize–winner James B. Stewart shows for the first time how four of the eighties’ biggest names on Wall Street—Michael Milken, Ivan Boesky, Martin Siegel, and Dennis Levine—created the greatest insider-trading ring in financial history and almost walked away with billions, until a team of downtrodden detectives triumphed over some of America’s most expensive lawyers to bring this powerful quartet to justice. Based on secret grand jury transcripts, interviews, and actual trading records, and containing explosive new revelations about Michael Milken and Ivan Boesky, Den of Thieves weaves all the facts into an unforgettable narrative—a portrait of human nature, big business, and crime of unparalleled proportions.
Download or read book Thief Of Thieves 30 written by Andy Diggle and published by Image Comics. This book was released on 2015-08-26 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This issue sets the stage for the next phase of the master criminalÕs legendary career.
Download or read book Thief Of Thieves 37 written by Andy Diggle and published by Image Comics. This book was released on 2016-11-23 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: END OF STORY ARC: "GOLD RUSH," Part Six The inevitable betrayal, an unexpected reward, and the moon landing of crime: the race to crown the greatest thief in the world crosses the fi nish line!
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Download or read book Thief Of Thieves 42 written by Brett Lewis and published by Image Comics. This book was released on 2018-11-14 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do you take down the richest people on Earth? By blowing up everything they own. The Zubovs messed with the wrong thief.
Download or read book Thief Of Thieves 41 written by Brett Lewis and published by Image Comics. This book was released on 2018-10-03 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conrad and Celia are going to hit the Zubovs where it hurts. But will a familiar face return to ruin everything?
Download or read book Thief Of Thieves 21 written by Robert Kirkman and published by Image Comics. This book was released on 2014-05-28 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first casualties on a new crime war mount up. Plus, learn just why they call him 'Lola.'
Download or read book Thief Of Thieves 34 written by Andy Diggle and published by Image Comics. This book was released on 2016-08-24 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "GOLD RUSH," Part Three The world's three greatest thieves beg, borrow, and steal to infiltrate London's Shard skyscraper in the first leg of their heistwhere reputation has no value, and honor is disposable.
Download or read book Thief Of Thieves 15 written by Robert Kirkman and published by Image Comics. This book was released on 2013-07-03 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's go time for Conrad's Italian heist!
Download or read book Gone Now are the Forty Thieves written by George K. Baulch and published by Calabash Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Thief Of Thieves 31 written by Andy Diggle and published by Image Comics. This book was released on 2015-09-23 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This issue sets the stage for the next phase of the master criminal's legendary career.
Download or read book Thief Of Thieves 38 written by Brett Lewis and published by Image Comics. This book was released on 2018-07-04 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THIEF OF THIEVES returns to kick off its final job! Conrad Paulson is deadÑor is he? And what does a notorious Russian prison have to do with the master thief known as Redmond?
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Download or read book Thief Of Thieves 40 written by Brett Lewis and published by Image Comics. This book was released on 2018-09-05 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost dying won't stop Conrad from plotting against the Russians who destroyed his life. But will Celia risk losing him so soon after coming back from the dead?
