Download or read book The Smuggler s Gambit written by Sara Whitford and published by Seaport Publishing. This book was released on 2015-03-13 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Port Beaufort, North Carolina - May 1765 Seventeen-year-old Adam Fletcher is no stranger to fist fights, but when he bloodies the nose of the obnoxious son of Port Beaufort’s customs agent, the local magistrate offers Adam two choices: jail or an apprenticeship. Choosing the latter, he soon finds himself bound apprentice to a reclusive old man with a secret, colorful past. Although Adam is less than thrilled about his new situation, when he is asked to spy on his master as a suspected smuggler, he has to decide where his loyalties lie. Will he perform his civic duty to the Crown, or will he do whatever is necessary to protect the old man, possibly putting even his own family in danger? Secrets will be revealed, loyalties will be questioned, betrayals will be uncovered, and a young man’s character will be put to the test in The Smuggler’s Gambit. The Smuggler’s Gambit is the first book in the Adam Fletcher Adventure Series of historical fiction novels. If you like fast-moving adventures, impetuous young heroes, suspense-filled plots, and a dash of romance, then you’ll love Sara Whitford’s entertaining series!
Download or read book The Smuggler s Gambit written by Sara Whitford and published by . This book was released on 2015-03-17 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When 17-year-old Adam Fletcher is forced into an apprenticeship, he unwittingly becomes a pawn in a smuggling war..."---Page 4 of cover.
Download or read book Smuggler s Gambit written by H. R. H. Davies and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Smuggler s Gambit written by D. K. Cassidy and published by . This book was released on 2018-07-26 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Interplanatory Private Investigator has a serial killer to find, and only a red scarf to go on as a clue.Lily Lovegrove's interplanetary detective agency is barely staying afloat when her newest case brings Lucien McAvoy into the fold-a man who seems to be more trouble than he's worth.Lucien claims he only wants to hire Lily to follow his ex-girlfriend, but before long, it becomes apparent there's much more at stake when digging for dirt on Lucien's ex leads them to discover production of maxxolonium, an illicit drug that's proving all too easy to overdose on.If Lily and Lucien don't find out who's making it before mass distribution, the deaths may climb from dozens to thousands. But their struggles are compounded as their desire for one another grows nearly as quickly as the bounty on their heads.Fans of Ray Bradbury and Philip K Dick are sure to devour The Smuggler Gambit, Book 1 in the thrilling science fiction Moonglow Guardian Series by D.K Cassidy.
Download or read book The Star Wars Radio Dramas written by Maria Jose Tenuto and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2024-07-29 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By 1977 National Public Radio (NPR) was in trouble, plagued by too little funding and small audiences. The phenomenal success of its adaptation of Star Wars as a radio drama in 1981 gave NPR the needed ratings, publicity, and boost in donations that kept it afloat at exactly the time it was threatened the most. Most importantly, Star Wars brought a new audience to NPR. As it did in theaters, where George Lucas's films redefined movie making, so too did NPR's Star Wars forever change the artistic world of radio drama. That a radio network, dependent exclusively on audio, would find a lifeline in one of the most visually dynamic movies ever released is the stuff of irony. Utilizing new interviews with creatives such as Anthony Daniels (C-3PO), Ann Sachs (Princess Leia), Perry King (Han Solo), and director John Madden, and archival research, this book details how an unlikely alliance of academics, radio executives, Lucasfilm employees, actors, and behind-the-scenes artists banded together, despite the obstacles, to create a unique and consequential work. It is also the story of how writer Brian Daley was the fulcrum who made it all possible.
Download or read book The Best of Star Wars Insider Volume 4 written by Jonathan Wilkins and published by Titan Comics. This book was released on 2016-11-22 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Calibri} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Calibri; min-height: 14.0px} Explore the galaxy far, far away. Four decades after the original Star Wars was released, changing cinema forever, the saga continues with all-new movies, books, comics, video games, and TV spin-offs. This collection of interviews and behind-the-scenes features includes: Daisy Ridley on playing Rey in The Force Awakens, an exploration of rare prototype toys that never made it into stores, and Mark Hamill’s thoughts on working with Sir Alec Guinness. “The Best of Star Wars Insider proves we don’t know all there is to know about Star Wars.” – New York Journal of Books
Download or read book The Hutt Gambit Star Wars Legends The Han Solo Trilogy written by A. C. Crispin and published by Random House Worlds. This book was released on 2011-06-28 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is the second novel in the blockbuster new trilogy that reveals the never-before-told story of the young Han Solo. Set before the Star Wars(r) movie adventures, these books chronicle the coming-of-age of the galaxy's most famous con man, smuggler and thief. Solo is now a fugitive from the Imperial Navy. But he has made a valuable friend in a former Wookiee slave named Chewbacca, who has sworn Han a life debt. Han will need all the help he can get. For the Ylesian Hutts have dispatched the dreaded bounty hunter Boba Fett to track down the man who already outsmarted them once. But Han and Chewie find themselves in even bigger trouble when they agree to lend their services to the crime lords Jiliac and Jabba the Hutt. Suddenly the two smugglers are thrust into the middle of a battle between the might of the Empire and the treachery of their outlaw allies...a battle where even victory means death! Features a bonus section following the novel that includes a primer on the Star Wars expanded universe, and over half a dozen excerpts from some of the most popular Star Wars books of the last thirty years!
Download or read book Drug War written by Peter Walsh and published by Milo Books Ltd. This book was released on 2018-11-28 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drug War is a landmark modern history: the first ever full account of the United Kingdom’s fight against the illegal importation of drugs. Packed with remarkable revelations and thrilling anecdotes, it tells for the first time the story of the high-level traffickers who drugged Britain, and the secretive organisation that tried to stop them: the Investigation Division of HM Customs and Excise. The ID’s elite officers waged a fifty-year battle to stem the tide of cannabis, cocaine and heroin arriving by land, air and sea, and to track, arrest and prosecute the smuggling gangs, both organised and chaotic, who turned an amateur pastime into a multi-billion-pound trade. The result of more than 100 unique interviews, many with insiders who have never spoken publicly, it is a ground-breaking account of one of the most vital subjects of our times. It begins with the UN Single Convention of 1961, intended to enshrine a worldwide ban on narcotics. Yet within five years the UK was on the cusp of a narco-boom, driven by immigrants from its former colonies and by the eruption of the youth counterculture. The insidious effect was to corrupt key areas of British life, including airport baggage and freight handlers at Heathrow Airport, dockers at the major ports and even the Drug Squad at New Scotland Yard. Drug War chronicles: the first major ‘barons’, including the brilliant laser scientist Dr Gurdev Singh Sangha; the rise of hippie traffickers such as the legendary Howard Marks, and the violent gangland syndicates that ultimately brushed them aside; the ongoing rivalry between police and Customs and how this often blighted the law enforcement response; the emergence of London’s first heroin godfather, Gigi Bekir, and how the Turkish state was complicit in flooding the country with smack; the heavyweight ‘untouchables’ who eventually streamlined the drug business, and the extraordinary covert methods employed against them; and how secret liaison with British and American spy agencies led to the biggest cocaine seizures ever, the motherships of the Colombian cartels. Concluding with the series of mishaps and scandals that ushered in the Serious Organised Crime Agency, Drug War is a ground-breaking account packed with unique revelations, personal testimony and fresh analysis.
Download or read book Cyborg 009 written by F.J. DeSanto and published by Boom! Studios. This book was released on 2014-09-17 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Awakening in a futurist military installation with no memory of who he is or how he got there, a young man known only as CYBORG 009 has been stripped by his captors of not only his freedom but also his humanity. His body augmented by cybernetic technology, CYBORG 009 joins forces with 8 other men and women, CYBORG 001-008, and sets off on a journey to learn the truth of why they were turned into weapons of mass destruction, and to prevent a conflict that could very well be the start of World War III.
Download or read book Into the Backcountry written by Sara Whitford and published by Seaport Publishing. This book was released on 2021-06-18 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Adam Fletcher’s 20th birthday, after a memorable, private supper prepared by his beloved Laney Martin, he learns that his grandfather may need to send him on an open-ended expedition into the colony’s interior to find an old acquaintance. While he prepared himself for all of the common dangers that one might encounter in North Carolina’s largely untamed backcountry, he never expected how this months-long journey would impact his life, or the changed world he would encounter upon his return to Beaufort. Into the Backcountry is the seventh book in the Adam Fletcher Adventure Series of historical fiction novels. If you like fast-moving adventures, impetuous young heroes, suspense-filled plots, and a dash of romance, then you'll love Sara Whitford's entertaining series!
Download or read book The Best of Star Wars Insider Volume 2 written by Jonathan Wilkins and published by Titan. This book was released on 2016-06-01 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inside the greatest movie saga of them all. From interviews with the cast and crew to expert analysis of the characters from leading Star Wars writers, this book showcases the Star Wars phenomenon in exhaustive detail. This essential collection features the exclusive true story of George Lucas¡¯ struggle to bring Star Wars to the big screen, and how his love of fast-moving vehicles shaped the saga. A must have for Star Wars fans, this retrospective also includes the cast and crew of Star Wars: The Clone Wars on Attack of the Clones, Mark Hamill on life at a Star Wars convention, and what it was really like to work with Jabba the Hutt.
Download or read book Christmas in Beaufort written by Sara Whitford and published by Seaport Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Adam Fletcher Adventure novella just in time for the holidays! Christmas in Beaufort picks up right where The Stolen Bride (Book 5) leaves off. Adam and his friends return to Carteret County after their unexpected adventure to New England. When they return, Adam finds out a lot has happened while he was away. His best friend, Martin, is now engaged to be married, but there will be no wedding unless Adam can help him clear his name of a serious allegation. To top it all off, Christmas is just around the corner, and with a dinner party planned at the Topsail Tavern, Adam has a lot to accomplish if there is to be a happy holiday season in Beaufort. Christmas in Beaufort includes bonus content. That's like stocking stuffers in book form!
Download or read book The Gypsy s Curse written by Sara Whitford and published by Seaport Publishing. This book was released on 2016-09-24 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the fourth installment in the Adam Fletcher Adventure Series, a gypsy family sets up camp on the edge of town peddling tinctures, potions, magic, and fortunetelling. And like a moth to a flame, Adam Fletcher is drawn there. He decides to pay the mysterious Madame Endora a visit, just for fun — or so he thinks. Soon after, a series of worrisome circumstances begin to unfold, one after the other, sending the sleepy port town of Beaufort into a hysterical frenzy. Is there really a curse, or is something more sinister to blame?
Download or read book The Stolen Bride written by Sara Whitford and published by Seaport Publishing. This book was released on 2018-05-28 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adam Fletcher’s fifth adventure picks up right where The Gypsy’s Curse left off —in the kitchen of the Topsail Tavern. After the initial shock has worn off about Santiago’s return, Adam and his father decide to go on a short errand together to New Bern to deliver a letter for Emmanuel. While they’re in town, they learn that Annabelle, the new bride of the recently-freed Martin family slave, Charles Jr., has gone missing. Adam and his father are glad to try and help find her, but when they discover where she is and what has happened, it’s a race against the clock to secure her safety. The adventure will take father and son all the way to Boston to track down Will Martin, the only person who can intervene on Annabelle’s behalf. They soon find out that making it back to North Carolina with Will — along with some unexpected companions — was only half the battle. The Stolen Bride is the fifth book in the Adam Fletcher Adventure Series of historical fiction novels. If you like fast-moving adventures, impetuous young heroes, suspense-filled plots, and a dash of romance, then you’ll love Sara Whitford’s entertaining series!
Download or read book Smuggler s Legacy written by Jan Tucker Mulligan and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is 1802. The struggling seafaring town of Concarneau clings to the perilous Breton Coast of France and endures Napoleon's increasing taxes and tariffs. After a cholera epidemic devastates Concarneau's population and leaves the town without a healer, Captain Louis Bedard, master mariner and bereaved patriarch, decides to seek a medisin - a doctor - but how can he amass the year's advance salary necessary to pay such a man? Bedard resorts to smuggling and finds himself, for the first time, at odds with the local law. Each month on the dark of the new moon, he slips the wharf and sails under an alias. The work is dangerous; most times he and his crew barely avoid capture by Concarneau's ambitious Captain Peder LaMotte. Bedard's plan works until one stormy night when he is betrayed by a vengeful crewmember and arrested by LaMotte. While Bedard awaits trial in the town jail he thinks his life can get no worse, until his beloved only daughter visits and tells him that she has finally met the man she wants to marry.
Download or read book High Risk Gambit written by Vivian Arend and published by Arend Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2024-09-13 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: High stakes and icy risks—where control is an illusion and passion will become their lifeline. As the chopper pilot for the elite Lifeline search-and-rescue team, Erin Tate is all about control. In the air, she’s the boss, but in the bedroom? That’s where she wants to let go. She’s looking for a man who can handle her strength and strip away her control. Enter Timothy Dextor, a paramedic with a wild card reputation and the dark appetites to match. The only thing he’s missing is a woman who gets him. Landing a spot on the Lifeline squad puts Erin, his old flame, right back in his sights. He knows exactly what she needs, and this time, he’s not about to let her slip away. When an emergency on an icy glacier snowfield throws Erin and Timothy together in ways they never expected, the stakes skyrocket—both on the job and off. They’ll need to discover the true meaning of control and confront the risks that come with falling deeply in love. ---- Keywords: Canadian Author, adventure romance, rekindled romance, contemporary, small town, search-and-rescue romance, backcountry survival For readers who enjoy: Rachel Grant, Toni Anderson, Laura Griffin, Rebecca Zanetti, Karen Rose.
Download or read book The Pandora Gambit written by Levi Samuel and published by Eldarlands Publishing. This book was released on 2018-07-20 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cops and Robbers to Magic and Monsters. The world just got a lot more complicated for Detective Ray Bradley. The streets of Miami are flooded with a mysterious drug that has the populace seeing monsters. Ray Bradley is the undercover narcotics detective assigned to work the case. However, things quickly get out of hand when a secretive DEA agent shows up with the credentials to take over. Ray soon finds himself immersed in a world he no longer understands. A world of myth and legend. A world of Elves and Orcs. But, what's more odd than that. It seems they've been here the entire time, living among us. Heralded as Miami Vice meets Lord of the Rings, The Pandora Gambit is a low magic, low fantasy, epic, set in modern day. Dust off your blazer and grab a cocktail. The Pandora Gambit is going to take you for a ride!
