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One Ranger
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With the immediacy and force of a sniper's strike, Cold Zero is a blistering first-person account of life inside the FBI and its elite Hostage Rescue Team.
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Fact check
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Hot Springs
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- By: Stephen Hunter
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Earl Swagger is tough as hell. But even tough guys have their secrets. Plagued by the memory of his abusive father, apprehensive about his own impending parenthood, Earl is a decorated ex-Marine of absolute integrity — and overwhelming melancholy. Now he’s about to face his biggest, bloodiest challenge yet. It is the summer of 1946, organized crime’s garish golden age, when American justice seems to have gone to seed for good.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good start to a series
- By Jonathan on 09-25-12
By: Stephen Hunter
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Pronto
- By: Elmore Leonard
- Narrated by: Alexander Adams
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- Unabridged
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The feds want Miami bookmaker Harry Arno to squeal on his wiseguy boss. So they're putting word out on the street that Arno's skimming profits from "Jimmy Cap" Capotorto - which he is, but everybody does it. He was planning to retire to Italy someday anyway, so Harry figures now's a good time to get lost. U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens knows Harry's tricky - the bookie ditched him once in an airport while in the marshal's custody - but not careful.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great character, even better dialogue!
- By Ron on 11-15-11
By: Elmore Leonard
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Go Down Together
- The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde
- By: Jeff Guinn
- Narrated by: Jonathan Hogan
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With dramatic flair, Jeff Guinn delivers the definitive portrait of Bonnie and Clyde. These media-savvy outlaws appealed to America's Depression-era hunger for swashbuckling characters. Glowing radio and newspaper reports transformed these "public enemies" into celebrities - much like the cinema gangsters of the time.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Bravo!
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By: Jeff Guinn
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The Feud
- The Hatfields and McCoys: The True Story
- By: Dean King
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
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Filled with bitter quarrels, reckless affairs, treacherous betrayals, relentless mercenaries, and courageous detectives, The Feud is the riveting story of two frontier families struggling for survival within the narrow confines of an unforgiving land. It is a formative American tale, and in it, we see the reflection of our own family bonds and the lengths to which we might go in order to defend our honor, our loyalties, and our livelihood.
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Get out the pad and pencil .....
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Gunsights
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Brendan Early and Dana Moon have tracked renegade Apaches together and gunned down scalp hunters to become Arizona legends. But now they face each other from opposite sides of what newspapers are calling The Rincon Mountain War. Brendan and a gang of mining company gun thugs are dead set on running Dana and "the People of the Mountain" from their land.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Maybe The essential Elmore Leonard Western
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By: Elmore Leonard
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- A Novel of the O.K. Corral
- By: Mary Doria Russell
- Narrated by: Hillary Huber
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- Unabridged
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 426
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A deeply divided nation. Vicious politics. A shamelessly partisan media. A president loathed by half the populace. Smuggling and gang warfare along the Mexican border. Armed citizens willing to stand their ground and take law into their own hands.... That was America in 1881. All those forces came to bear on the afternoon of October 26, when Doc Holliday and the Earp brothers faced off against the Clantons and the McLaurys in Tombstone, Arizona. It should have been a simple misdemeanor arrest.
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5 out of 5 stars
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SO GOOD!
- By Cait on 06-30-15
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A Braver Man
- By: Royal Wade Kimes
- Narrated by: John Pruden
- Length: 17 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 208
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 177
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 179
Hawk Haynes ruled from his heart, but stayed alive by using his instincts. Hawk was on his way to start a new life in Texas when he runs into burned out wagons. He finds families slaughtered, the men killed, the women raped, and killed. Hawk Haynes had just introduced himself to Southwest Texas. Hawk had been deeded land just northwest of Rawlins for his services in taking care of Ted Rawlins and his wife until their death.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Over the top
- By Richard on 02-27-10
By: Royal Wade Kimes
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Dodge City
- Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the Wickedest Town in the American West
- By: Tom Clavin
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- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 992
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Dodge City, Kansas, is a place of legend. The town that started as a small military site exploded with the coming of the railroad, cattle drives, eager miners, settlers, and various entrepreneurs passing through to populate the expanding West. Before long Dodge City's streets were lined with saloons and brothels, and its populace was thick with gunmen, horse thieves, and desperadoes of every sort. By the 1870s, Dodge City was known as the most violent and turbulent town in the West.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The Real Life Story of Dodge City
- By Jean on 03-26-17
By: Tom Clavin
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Way of the Wolf
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 953
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 607
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Story4 out of 5 stars 609
Louisiana, 2065. A lot has changed in the 43rd year of the Kurian Order. Possessed of an unnatural and legendary hunger, the bloodthirsty Reapers have come to Earth to establish a New Order built on the harvesting of enslaved human souls. They rule the planet. They thrive on the scent of fear. And if it is night, as sure as darkness, they will come.
On this pitiless world, the indomitable spirit of mankind still breathes in Lieutenant David Valentine.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Its what you expect, and thats not a bad thing.
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The Last Outlaws
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- By: Thom Hatch
- Narrated by: James C. Lewis
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- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 75
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 65
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 65
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - as leaders of the Wild Bunch, they planned and executed the most daring bank and train robberies of the day, with a professionalism never before seen by authorities. For several years at the end of the 1890s, the two friends, along with a revolving cast who made up their band of thieves, eluded local law enforcement and bounty hunters, all while stealing from the rich bankers and eastern railroad corporations who exploited western land. The close calls were many, but Butch and Sundance always managed to escape to rob again another day - that is, until they rode headlong into the 20th century.
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5 out of 5 stars
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EXELLENT LISTENING<br />
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Illegal
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 179
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Trial lawyer Jimmy “Royal” Payne was his own worst enemy - until now. Haunted by personal tragedy and wanted by the cops, Payne needs to skip town. What he doesn’t need is Tino Perez, a gutsy twelve-year-old Mexican boy in search of his missing - and undocumented - mother. But Payne’s ex-wife, an L.A.P.D. detective he still loves, makes him a deal: help the boy or go to jail. Soon Payne is following Tino into the darker side of the American dream.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great opening chapters; very vivid characters!
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By: Paul Levine
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Kingdom of Fear
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- By: Hunter S. Thompson
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Gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson penned groundbreaking works as outrageous—and provocative—as the author himself. His memoir Kingdom of Fear provides compelling insight into his life and literary output.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Sowers ruins Thompson
- By rocky on 02-09-13
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Gangster Squad
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Gangster Squad chronicles the true story of the secretive police unit that waged an anything-goes war to drive Mickey Cohen and other hoodlums from Los Angeles after WWII. In 1946, the LAPD launched the Gangster Squad with eight men who met covertly on street corners and slept with Tommy guns under their beds. But for two cops, all that mattered was nailing the strutting gangster Mickey Cohen. Sgt. Jack O’Mara was a square-jawed church usher, Sgt. Jerry Wooters a cynical maverick....
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3 out of 5 stars
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Nothing Like the movie
- By KEITH on 02-21-13
By: Paul Lieberman
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
- S. A. Blues
- 02-14-10
Tell Me More Joaquin
One hell of a book that leaves you wanting to hear more of his stories; being from Texas I have visited many of the areas he mentions in his book. I found myself engulfed with his adventures. Last spring we drove out to west Texas to enjoy the flowing colors of the rugged area. Not knowing the content of this new book beforehand, I downloaded the book. Not only did I enjoy listing to the adventures of Ranger Jackson, but our entire group wanted to hear him tell his true life stories as we drove back to Houston. The stories are true and the ending is sad. I found myself wanting to hear more of the life and times of Ranger Jackson. I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to know what it is like to be a Texas Ranger.
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- Cristina Ramirez
- 05-13-19
Wonderful Adventures and life of Texas Ranger
LOVE OUR TEXAS RANGER; LOVE MY TEXAS!!! Beautifully read and truly enjoyed the feeling of sitting across this Texas Ranger on the edge of my seat listening to every word spoken!!!
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- Kindle Customer
- 01-03-21
Well written!
Articulate writer, excellent reader! held my attention throughout. Satisfying description of a life in service as a lawman...warts and all. The expressive descriptions of events and people...not to mention the Texas way of speaking so very enjoyable!
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
- Kyle Martin Schernik
- 03-26-21
3rd time going through this book, great story.
wish someone, anyone, would have taught the narrator the proper pronunciation of Sabinal Texas. Sa-Ben-AL not Su bine el as he REPEATEDLY says. Great book liked the chapter about Johnny Rodriguez, my mother's family who still live in Sabinal don't speak as fondly of him, but he did steal our goat.
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- Tim Cannon
- 02-13-21
An age sadly passed
What a story of service and humility and honor and decency - and of pain. A man from an age that, sadly, is mostly in the past.
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- Leslie N. Reed-Russell
- 07-04-21
Excellent
Historical, humorous, humanity at it’s worst and best.
Whatever one finds interesting will find it in, “One Ranger.” Rex Linn read with an excellent Texan & Tejano accent. Although, the RR twenty-two, twenty-two was a bit of the motorcycle drive was hysterical.
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- Michael
- 05-01-22
Out of Flawed men Come Heroes
This is a great book. Rex Linn captures the spirit of Joaquin Jackson in his reading of the book, better than any narrator I have heard. The rangers do not have a perfect history because of the times, political pressures, and the fact that for much of their history, their training was sparse and the landscape was brutal. We get to know a lot of the heart of this one ranger. He was a man's man who did the best to do his duty. Great Read.
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- camron radmall
- 08-07-22
One of the best books on the earth!
one hell of a ranger one hell of a cowboy!! The life ofvthis man is incredible I could listen to this over and over! they need to made a movie
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- Gene
- 11-16-05
One Ranger
As a Texas Peace Officer, I know a lot of what Jackson feels in many ways. He is frank and candid, while still being able to see the humor you must find in the constantly changing episodes, as well as the drama and sheer disgust with crime. Only a Ranger can see as much as he has, yet every peace officer worth their salt, struggles with the injustice that is always out there at work. Great book!
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- John
- 09-03-12
Enjoyable story
Would you listen to One Ranger again? Why?
Yes, I enjoy the way the book chronicles different time periods and individual chacters.
Who was your favorite character and why?
The SeeMore Kid
Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
I did laugh a few times.
Any additional comments?
I would recommend this book, especially if you are familiar with South Texas.
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