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Will Toal has seen a lot of the world in his twenty-three years, including war, the death of his family, and the loss of everything he owns. The gold his father left him, buried in the family graveyard, provides hope for a new future. He is determined to leave Georgia and the past behind him, and start fresh in Carson Valley, at the base of the mountainous Sierra Nevada bowl cradling Lake Tahoe.But here, Will comes up against a Goliath he never expected-Washington's support of San Francisco capital and influence to finish the transcontinental railroad as soon as possible. Big business is backed by national pride and unbelievable monetary gain, and this means driving the railroad construction through the upper reaches of Carson Valley-no matter whose land stands in their way.Untenable right-of-way issues lead to a fierce gun battle between the railroad's hired guns and the Carson Valley ranchers based on the real-life 1880 events of Mussel Slough, California, just outside the city of Hanford.Will and his fellow ranchers must try to survive the indomitable forces and insurmountable odds against them, fueled by more greed for power and money than they could ever have imagined. Can a compromise be reached in the completion of the grandest engineering effort the country has ever undertaken in its history, or will the ranchers and Will find themselves RAILROADED?

After gambler and loan shark Jimmie Flambeau leverages Joth into an uncomfortable professional relationship, Joth and private detective DP Tran develop a high risk plan to deliver Heather from impending disaster. As nerves are frayed and lines are crossed, Joth stumbles on to a clue to a decades old mystery-and then ghosts from his past intrude."Irving's writing reveals the twists and turns of thecourts of law and the dark byways of the human heart."-Barry Maine, Professor of English, Wake Forest University

There's different kinds of fire...William Randolph Packard Hearse... Dutch has his hand in at least two, maybe three kinds of fires. He's investigating the mysterious house-fire that left Fisher Pulaski in the city morgue without a single burn on him. Then there's the unknown man found burned to a crisp in a car on a desolate road. Nicknamed Bernie by the townspeople, word is he might have been with the mob. Then again, he might have been a cop.Dutch is also hired to capture an escapee from an area mental hospital, a man he knows all too well. Along the way, he decides to pull into Fast Mike's and trade his pickup truck for a Packard hearse. His friendship with Slant Face Sanders breaks down and may be irreparable, but his side hustle taxiing people around town in the hearse, christened William Randolph Packard Hearse, soon starts to pay dividends. He may be driving a glamor girl across nighttime Fort Worth, but it's Ruthie Nell that his heart burns for. And that may prove to be the most dangerous kind of fire of them all.

July 19, 1919, was a steamy day in Washington, D.C. The Klan was in town, promoting white supremacy and Prohibition. Their rural foothold was based upon the credo of not mixing the races; that alcohol would undo the American family; that the only way to hold on to what you got is to make sure that nobody passes you by in the "social order," including non-whites, foreigners and non-Protestants.The three Custer brothers had returned from Northern France, having fought there as American Stormtroopers. They had adopted the German Stormtrooper technique of quick and vicious nighttime raids to disrupt the enemy. These Black warriors were prepared to employ those same tactics to defend their home.Defend they did. They beat back the white mob. They used their marksmanship skills not to kill but to wound and deter.The Custer brothers didn't know that German Stormtroopers had entered the United States to continue wreaking havoc and extracting vengeance against the men they felt had misled Germany into an armistice, surrender and now reparations. To aid their mission, they injected themselves into the white mob.The Custer brothers, in conjunction with Lee Ann Custer, their white "sister," decided to fight back.Fight they did.

The Supreme Leader of Iran is dead. Within three hours, the Assembly of Experts names his successor. Will he bring change to Iran's relationship with the west or be their next nightmare? As the world waits, the new Supreme Leader plans to lift the economic sanctions against Iran once and for all.After the U.S. embassy in Islamabad becomes the victim of a terrorist attack, CIA operative Ben Thrasher learns that the terrorist responsible has a connection to a previous attack in India. When bombs go off at U.S. global service centers across India, he meets with his rival from India's Intelligence Bureau, Kedar Dhoni. The two agents must work together to discover the forces at hand before Iran initiates a plan to rule the Middle East using a secret connection to the Nazis.Meanwhile in the United States, former operative Tom Delang is working on a film deal regarding his escape from Iran when he is run off the road by an unknown assassin. After miraculously surviving, Delang enlists Kirk Kurruthers to help him determine if the attempt on his life is part of a plot to boost interest in the movie or if an old foe is out for revenge.

Caught in a web of illicit drug dealing and murder, Frank Silver Shore embarks on a quest to find who killed his friend Gene Darveaux and track down a satchel of drug payment money hidden by Darveaux at a place called Rainbow Rock.In a deadly cat-and-mouse game with Gene's killers, Frank joins forces with grizzled Lakota lawman Al Twocrow and intrepid Hot Springs Star reporter Maria Tager in a race to find the hidden cash and solve Gene's murder.But just where is this mysterious Rainbow Rock? Is it in the Fairburn Agate fields that Frank and Gene explored when they were kids, or is it somewhere in the Sacred Black Hills?Over a taut 3-day period in the Winter of 1955, the story behind the missing drug money and why Gene was killed come into focus for Frank, Maria and Twocrow as they deal with both the killers and the rugged Black Hills terrain to solve the mystery of Rainbow Rock.

Spur Award-Winning Author A story that could have come out of today's headlines, this revised edition of the acclaimed novel explores a Mexican national's desperate attempt to provide for his family. Ricardo has known only poverty in Mexico, but he dreams of a better life in the United States. He enlists a "coyote" to smuggle him across the Rio Grande, a river that separates not only one nation from another, but one world from another.The Illegal Man is also the story of Ann Rawlings, a recent widow struggling to preserve her West Texas ranch. There is a troubled Border Patrolman and her bigoted foreman, who considers Mexican ranch hands to be little more than animals. For Ricardo, it's a world in which he will suffer hardship and indignity, but one he will gladly endure to support his family.The Illegal Man grew out of a newspaper series by Patrick Dearen, who interviewed Mexican and American officials and accompanied Border Patrolmen along the Rio Grande. He based his character Ricardo on an actual Mexican national he interviewed on a West Texas ranch."A warm, gripping novel that explores a subject of intense interest to all Americans. Wonderfully told, this novel should endure." -Norman Zollinger, two-time Spur Award winner."A vivid description of what a common man goes through seeking work in a different country than his own. It is a powerful story filled with adventure, sadness, persecution, and loneliness." -San Angelo (Texas) Standard-Times."Dearen's writing is so perfect, so descriptive, so charged with emotion, it sucks the reader into the very marrow of the story. . . Stretches the mind and the heart as the good and the bad in life play out on its pages . . . It is a good story: a story of love, of justice, and of redemption." -Permian Historical Annual."A beautifully written story that speaks eloquently." -Roundup Magazine.

Meet Bill Duncan, the well-respected Deputy Assistant Commonwealth's Attorney for Jefferson County and the central figure in this legal mystery, which begins with the trial of a violent criminal with a secret and shady past. When Duncan takes over the case from a dubious colleague, he faces a slick defense attorney and a petulant judge. He ultimately wins a conviction, only to be swept up in post-trial accusations of fraud and malfeasance before becoming the prime suspect in a murder case.Restitution traces Duncan's efforts to clear himself, and along the way he encounters insidious power deep inside the government and shocking betrayal from those he loved and trusted. The story culminates with his exoneration and an ultimate recognition of his own desires, weaknesses and beliefs."An ex-prosecutor, Moriarty knows his way around the courthouse and the courtroom, and he brings both alive with a thrilling story and memorable characters." -James Irving, author of the Joth Proctor Mystery Series."Restitution is a page-turner that grabs you with the opening chapter and doesn't let go. Stephen Moriarty takes you from the secretive back rooms of the judicial system that he knows from personal experience as a prosecutor to the heights of international intrigue with an ending that surprises, shocks and makes you eager for his next novel." -Molly Moore, former court reporter for The Washington Post and author of A Woman at War: Storming Kuwait with the U.S. Marines.