Download or read book Mountain Revenge written by Richard A. Foschino and published by Richard Foschino. This book was released on 2003-09 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Mountain revenge is a true crime novel, written by the police officer who investigated this unsolved murder."
Download or read book When These Mountains Burn written by David Joy and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-08-18 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2020 Dashiell Hammett Award for Literary Excellence in Crime Writing Acclaimed author and "remarkably gifted storyteller" (The Charlotte Observer) David Joy returns with a fierce and tender tale of a father, an addict, a lawman, and the explosive events that come to unite them. When his addict son gets in deep with his dealer, it takes everything Raymond Mathis has to bail him out of trouble one last time. Frustrated by the slow pace and limitations of the law, Raymond decides to take matters into his own hands. After a workplace accident left him out of a job and in pain, Denny Rattler has spent years chasing his next high. He supports his habit through careful theft, following strict rules that keep him under the radar and out of jail. But when faced with opportunities too easy to resist, Denny makes two choices that change everything. For months, the DEA has been chasing the drug supply in the mountains to no avail, when a lead--just one word--sets one agent on a path to crack the case wide open . . . but he'll need help from the most unexpected quarter. As chance brings together these men from different sides of a relentless epidemic, each may come to find that his opportunity for redemption lies with the others.
Download or read book Blood Mountain Covenant written by Charles E. Hill and published by Pentland Press (NC). This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The struggle of the Lance family to live a life of honor in spite of the murder of one of its members.
Download or read book Revenge on the Mountain written by MR Mark Alan Herbkersman and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-10-21 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He traded his Bible for a gun Preacher Teague is a troubled man. Everything he ever hoped for was taken away from him in a few brutal moments and turned him from respected and beloved preacher to gunman. Riding the trail with death before and behind, he was a hardened man seeking revenge upon those who destroyed his life. He attracted trouble, yet his compassion never died. Riding into an unfamiliar town in search of a break from the solitude of the West, he found himself embroiled in a fight which wasn't his but which he couldn't avoid. A young lady and her brother are up against the wall and being run off their land by a man with no scruples. It wasn't his fight, but he couldn't turn away.
Download or read book RODOMONTE S REVENGE written by Gary Paulsen and published by Yearling. This book was released on 2011-10-26 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Brett watched, one hand slipped loose, then the other. Tom dropped, screaming, into the flames. His body, all red and bubbled, boiled up once to the surface, then was gone. PLAYER ONE HAS ONE LIFE REMAINING. GAME CONTINUES. Flaming fire rivers. Divebombing buzz-bugs. A cruel king waiting to do battle in his computer-generated castle. Video game whizzes Brett Wilder and Tom Houston think that new virtual reality game Rodomonte’s Revenge is awesome-until it takes over their minds. Then the game playing becomes dangerously real, and one wrong move could be the last.
Download or read book Vengeance of the Mountain Man written by William W. Johnstone and published by Pinnacle Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Smoke Jensen runs into an old enemy and his vicious gang in this latest book in Johnstone's bestselling series.
Download or read book Revenge of Superstition Mountain written by Elise Broach and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-08-26 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Barker brothers and their friend Delilah secretly climb up to Superstition Mountain one last time, hoping to solve the remaining mysteries, including whether the librarian is really the ghost of Julia Thomas, what was their uncle Hank's role in discovering the gold mine, and especially, who is trying to kill them.
Download or read book Revenge on the Fly written by Sylvia McNicoll and published by Pajama Press Inc.. This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leaving behind England (and the graves of his mother and baby sister) 12-year-old William sails to Canada with his father, where he joins the campaign to eradicate flies in cities and stop the spread of deadly diseases.
Download or read book Rocky Mountain Revenge written by Cindi Myers and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2014-02-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last place she expects to have a reunion is the Rocky Mountains. But this man from her past is hard to ignore in Cindi Myers's Rocky Mountain Revenge Despite her new identity in the WitSec Program, Anne Gardener has been found by the one person who hurt her the most: FBI agent Jake Westmoreland. And when she testified against her own flesh and blood, her whole existence was turned upside down. Jake couldn't expect any more from her—except that he did. He wanted the impossible…her help. Jake doesn't have much time to restore Anne's faith in him. She is the only one who can help him locate her mob-boss father and put him away for good. He knows that his betrayal has hurt her deeply. Loving her was never part of the plan; yet losing her is a risk he won't take. He'll do anything to keep her safe—even if it means walking into the lion's den….
Download or read book Blood Pursuit of the Mountain Man written by William W. Johnstone and published by Pinnacle Books. This book was released on 2007-05 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains two complete novels by American western author William W. Johnstone, including "Pursuit of a Mountain Man" in which a German count pursues mountain man Smoke Jensen and "The First Mountain Man, Blood on the Divide" in which mountain man Preacher takes on the murderous Pardee brothers.
Download or read book Missing on Superstition Mountain written by Elise Broach and published by Henry Holt and Company (BYR). This book was released on 2011-06-21 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's summer and the three Barker brothers—Simon, Henry, and Jack—just moved from Illinois to Arizona. Their parents have warned them repeatedly not to explore Superstition Mountain, which is near their home. But when their cat Josie goes missing, they see no other choice. There's something unusually creepy about the mountain and after the boys find three human skulls, they grow determined to uncover the mystery. Have people really gone missing over the years, and could there be someone or some thing lurking in the woods? Together with their new neighbor Delilah, the Barker boys are dead-set on cracking the case even if it means putting themselves in harm's way. Here's the first book in an action-packed mystery series by a New York Times bestselling author. Missing on Superstition Mountain is a Publishers Weekly Best Children's Fiction title for 2011.
Download or read book Treasure on Superstition Mountain written by Elise Broach and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-02-05 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Returning to Superstition Mountain, the Barker brothers, along with their friend Delilah, soon find themselves entangled in more danger and mystery as they uncover a treasure. Illustrations.
Download or read book Wrath of the Mountain Man written by William W. Johnstone and published by Pinnacle Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The latest installment of the 'Mountain Man' series delivers a hard-hitting tale packed with adventure and action as Smoke Jensen seeks vengeance on the corrupt sheriff holding a wounded friend hostage.
Download or read book Revenge written by Ann Robbins Phillips and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2012-06-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On October 28, 1862, Hoopers break into the house of the Watson family and kill three men, injure and resultantly kill one teenage girl and rape another. Nine-year-old Nathe Watson is witness to this western North Carolina Mountain massacre, but escpaes through a window at the urging of his mother. When he returns, he finds heads of the men atop pike poles on display in his front yard. Sent to live in Tennessee with a cousin, Nathe changes his name to Milsaps for protection and stays until he reaches age twenty. He returns to the mountains, burdened with desire for revenge. He is forced to find work to sustain himself as he searches for the murderers. A young civil-war widow, Addie Fisher, and her two children, Davie and Clare, are on near starvation when Nathe comes to work with promise of food and a barn roof over his head. He is torn with fear he will be found by the Hoopers and desire for a family. Sickness, fire, and death abound, but so do love, family, and loyalty. Nathe keeps away from most residents of Rich Mountain but one, known only as Amps, seems to know too much and offer unwanted advice on things that pertain to Nathe ... things he thought no one knew. There is a fact about Addie which could threaten everything. Something Nathe never thought to ask and Addie never assumed to share.
Download or read book Revenge written by Yoko Ogawa and published by Picador. This book was released on 2013-01-29 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It's not just Murakami but also the shadow of Borges that hovers over this mesmerizing book... [and] one may detect a slight bow to the American macabre of E.A. Poe. Ogawa stands on the shoulders of giants, as another saying goes. But this collection may linger in your mind -- it does in mine -- as a delicious, perplexing, absorbing and somehow singular experience." -- Alan Cheuse, NPR Sinister forces collide---and unite a host of desperate characters---in this eerie cycle of interwoven tales from Yoko Ogawa, the critically acclaimed author of The Housekeeper and the Professor. An aspiring writer moves into a new apartment and discovers that her landlady has murdered her husband. Elsewhere, an accomplished surgeon is approached by a cabaret singer, whose beautiful appearance belies the grotesque condition of her heart. And while the surgeon's jealous lover vows to kill him, a violent envy also stirs in the soul of a lonely craftsman. Desire meets with impulse and erupts, attracting the attention of the surgeon's neighbor---who is drawn to a decaying residence that is now home to instruments of human torture. Murderers and mourners, mothers and children, lovers and innocent bystanders---their fates converge in an ominous and darkly beautiful web. Yoko Ogawa's Revenge is a master class in the macabre that will haunt you to the last page. An NPR Best Book of 2013
Download or read book Cold Mountain written by Charles Frazier and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wounded Confederate soldier treks across the ruins of America in this National Book Award–winning novel: “A stirring Civil War tale told with epic sweep.” —People Sorely wounded and fatally disillusioned in the fighting at Petersburg, a Confederate soldier named Inman decides to walk back to his home in the Blue Ridge mountains to Ada, the woman he loves. His journey across the disintegrating South brings him into intimate and sometimes lethal converse with slaves and marauders, bounty hunters and witches, both helpful and malign. Meanwhile, the intrepid Ada is trying to revive her father’s derelict farm and learning to survive in a world where the old certainties have been swept away. As it interweaves their stories, Cold Mountain asserts itself as an authentic odyssey, hugely powerful, majestically lovely, and keenly moving.
Download or read book THE Revenge of the Wannabes written by Lisi Harrison and published by Poppy. This book was released on 2008-08-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weeks before Christmas. Alicia and Olivia are on their way to Manhattan so the Teen People editors can do a story on them about winning the Octavian Country Day uniform design contest. When Massie finally processes that the girls who hijacked her victory are also modeling for Teen People, she is livid. It should have been her. 'Ehmagod, what will everyone think when they find out it wasn't me who was asked to model? I will be SO over.' Massie decides it's time to get revenge. This snake can not lay idle in the weeds for one more second. Kristen and Dylan throw out terrible 'revenge' suggestions and Massie vetoes them all. She will think of something! But first she has to go home and exfoliate. The social minefields of Westchester County's most privileged middle school girls drive the page-turning action of this addictive series, set in New York City's most elite suburban county. The Clique . . . the only thing harder than getting in is staying in.
