He dipped out of the brighter level into a premature night below; evening was gathering quickly, and with each step Connor felt the misty darkness closing above his head.
Brand's famous plot twists turn this tale of a tough lawman chasing a potentially innocent outlaw through the mountain desert into one delightful surprise after another.
When he recovered his senses, it would be difficult to shoot effectively in the dark, for this was not the gloom of night-it was an absolute void, black, thick, impenetrable.
A tough guy, an evil man, and his angel daughter make fascinating bedfellows as they attempt to save a family gold mine in this intriguing tale from Max Brand.
Loaded with greater heroes, nastier villains, and more action than you could hope to find in other Westerns, this great horse opera by the legendary Max Brand is impossible to put down.
Twists and turns abound as a man with no prior wilderness experience tracks the cold, calculating killer of his father across the open plains and mountains of the wild west.
'Ulysses' takes place in a single day, 16 June 1904, also known as Bloomsday, it sets the characters and incidents of the Odyssey of Homer in modern Dublin and represents Odysseus (Ulysses), Penelope and Telemachus in the characters of Leopold Bloom, his wife Molly Bloom and Stephen Dedalus, and contrasts them with their lofty models.
Anyone interested in the 1960s will be fascinated by the lives of Brud and Reggie Hicks, the brothers from Texas, their wives Gwendolyn Adams and Gwendolyn James, both members of historically prominent Boston area families, Sam Davis, the defrocked Methodist minister who joins them at Walden Brook, Leo Dennison, a local gun dealer and Keetsville native who is a former selectman, and Stacy Phelps, owner of the Keetsville general store.
Agent Nathan Hunt makes a decision that will change his life and sets in motion a series of events involving the Mafia, the Russian Mob, the poetry of Charles Bukowski, and the small town of Graham Massachusetts where he has gone to ground as Eddie Sanders a janitor at the local community college.
Sarah Orne Jewett, who wrote the book when she was 47, was largely responsible for popularizing the regionalism genre with her sketches of the fictional Maine fishing village of Dunnet Landing.
Spoon River Anthology, by Edgar Lee Masters, is a collection of short free-form poems that collectively describe the life of the fictional small town of Spoon River, named after the real Spoon River that ran near Masters' home town.
The first book in the legendary Tarzan series tells the story of John Clayton, born in the coastal jungles of Africa to a marooned couple from England, adopted as an infant by apes after they die, then raised in ignorance of his human heritage.
