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Former Army Ranger Jack Bradshaw has found a niche in the civilian world as a private investigator and part-time executive protection agent. His new task of protecting a political activist was accepted with reluctance. It rapidly heats up when an attempt is made on his principal's life.

And there you have it, sports fans. The game plan in a nutshell. Get The Mark, the very rich Shelby Coleman, to a poker game where, over time, they can take all his money. Get Shelby to the point where he begs them for credit to get even. And let him play a little longer, so he can wipe the smiles off the faces of those he thinks have milked him dry. And each time he begs them for more credit, he’ll be getting in deeper with them. And deeper still. That’s the plan. That’s what they’re getting so very close to pulling off.

In the darkness of night, the once-powerful, single engine, Piper Comanche 260 airplane began experiencing catastrophic engine failure. Within seconds, the previously well-tuned aircraft was shaking violently putting the plane in a rapid descent while the cockpit was quickly filling with thick smoke. Five Minutes to Impact is a true story of overcoming fear in the face of unexpected crisis, understanding the providence of God in the dealings of man, and renewing our faith in His divine plan for our lives.

There is a killer at large in the oak grasslands of southeastern Arizona whose weapon of choice is a deadly variety of southwestern rattlesnake. Deputy Sheriff Calvin Creede doesn’t like snakes, but he and his compatriots seek to find the mountain cave from which a collection of Mojave rattlesnakes recently was looted. Then he must determine which of a variety of suspects has taken them home. Was it the leader of a gang of border vigilantes? Was it a greedy developer who will stop at nothing to gain control of land and water for his business ambitions? Or could it have been a recently disinherited trust child?

Tom Ballard, a young Marine, had been fighting for his life in Vietnam less than 24 hours ago. Now he was on a plane escorting the body of his best friend home. Kate Newhouse had run away from her past to the mean streets of Los Angeles and Hollywood. She had survived and clawed her way up the first few rungs of the ladder to success, thanks to the man who had discovered her, Jack Reynolds, a World War II Marine now writer. On the long flight home Tom and Kate find themselves drawn together.

In this audiobook, you will discover how to improve self-esteem, overcome shyness, and become more outgoing. If you lack in self-confidence, you likely second-guess yourself or are afraid to try something new because you don't think you can. You feel inferior to others as if you are not as good or as deserving as those around you. You are worried you can't complete a task as it should be done. You likely feel as if you have no power over what happens to you at work, home, or school.

In Time All Truths Are Revealed begins on the day Roberta Feinstein, a small-time drug dealer who works out of her apartment on the Upper West Side in New York City, has decided to give up her business. She’ll see her last customers and then move on to a new life. From there the story moves ahead 15 years to Columbia, a small town in Westchester County where a much-loved, local young woman has been raped and murdered.

A mummified body, crimes from the ‘30’s, ‘80’s and present day, a Native American forensic specialist with the FBI and the women who can lead him to the body as well as the solution to the crimes of the past and present. Bullets and a blizzard drive Kam and David together, is that enough along with some shared heritage? What is Kam hiding that could drive her away from Riverview and the new man in her life? What has Megan survived that causes her nightmares? Who is trying to stop the investigation and why? All questions answered in this novel. Riverview, a ranching town where your neighbors are your friends and stand behind you when you need them. Rugged country to test all those who enter it away from the safety of town.

After a fortieth birthday surprise party, Clayton Carter, a NY actor and street mime, is reminded of the gang rape of his college girl friend by five of his fraternity brothers. Now twenty years later, Clayton sets out to wreak revenge on the rapists. Using his expertise as a makeup artist and with disguises he manages to bring them grief. But his efforts at revenge take a surprising turn that forces Clayton to rethink his plans at getting even.

There's only one way to escape the mafia. Friends since youth, Johnny Sangremano and Mike Kelly shared everything - until time forced them to choose which side of the law they would live on. Johnny is the son of one of the most powerful Mafia families. Mike, following in his father's footsteps, becomes a federal agent, determined to end the Mafia's reign of terror.

Perciville Socrates Hammond, born and raised in the city of Boston by his overprotective mother and an elderly aunt who viewed the entire world as evil, was clueless when it came to the "outside world". Tall, gangly, and with a face only a mother could love, he was content to live in solitude, only leaving home for work or church. Then, out of the blue, he receives a shocking bit of information when he is contacted by an attorney about the death of his maternal grandfather - a man he had never known. He was to inherit his grandfather’s Bar-Slash-B ranch.

Army veteran Sheriff Megan Holloway has a lot on her mind: a dog with a belly full of smuggled diamonds, a terrified woman hiding at the Bailey’s Boarding House, and a mafioso who is likely connected to both. What's that city crook doing in her town, anyway? She saw Aaron, the man in her life, flirting with another woman. Add to that, she relived her personal nightmare of the war in Afghanistan, again. Calling in the proper government agencies, Megan manipulates them, keeping control of the investigation in the background. Fortunately, she has an ace-in-the-hole the Feds don't.

A Western adventure in the desert of New Mexico and Texas where a bounty hunter teams up with a Padre to find the lost treasure of a famous outlaw who is believe to be dead. However, the outlaw is still alive in a Mexican prison and must be broken out in order to find the exact location of the treasure, which is believed to be in the brutal Jornada del Muerto. The bounty hunter and the Padre ride through the Mexican badlands to reach the notorious prison called the Castle of San Carlos, or the Perote Prison, and plan an escape for the outlaw.

Les Deplorables focuses upon Donald Trump's third revolutionary effort to dismantle Franklin Roosevelt's new deal programs of big government that have dominated America since the depression of the 1930s. The first effort was Ronald Reagan's Moral Majority counterrevolution from 1980-89. The second attempt was led by Newt Gingrich's 1994 Contract with America and Republican control of Congress in the 1990s. This book explains the third American revolution in the aftermath of the Tea Party's victory in the 2016 election.

The Wilcox and Son Detective Agency is working on its second case file, but Matthew and his son Chance are beginning to think they might have bit off more than they can chew. Their investigation into a series of claim-jumps near the booming mining community of Wallace, Idaho, suddenly turns deadly as one witness after another turns up dead. It turns out that the theft of land and mineral rights is only the beginning of a much deeper conspiracy. Matthew and Chance follow the leads as best they can, knowing full well that their investigation has turned into a game of cat and mouse.

In the glamorous world of Hollywood, they were two men bound by twisted loyalties...to the mob, to the law, and to each other. As the 20s roared and the mob moved to take over Hollywood, the old rule still applied: The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

Vin Tanner and the rest of the small community he led had to flee.

A pandemic unlike any before was about to take place. They will have to fight their way through the ruins of a collapsing society to reach safety.

Roving gangs, people fleeing the sickness, and other unexpected dangers await them.

With what was left of the world collapsing around them, they had to find a new safe haven to survive.

It was from his best friend Johny Sangremano that Mike Kelly first heard the word mafia. It's a secret crime organization, Johnny tells Mike, and the Sangremanos are one of the most powerful families. But he swears that he will never be a part of it, just as Mike vows never to follow in his father's footsteps and become a policeman. Instead, the two friends set out to barnstorm their way across the country in a beat-up old biplane, eking out a living as they go. But youthful dreams die bitter deaths, and before long they are back in New York.

In this groundbreaking new book, acclaimed health and wealth writer Gary A. Scott and award-winning author Robert Gandt debunk the myths of age and ability.

A mutilated body was found by two young hunters…frozen… and slashed viciously with a knife. Part of the face was eaten away. Horace Badger, the dean of men at the nearby at Reliance College had been murdered. But why so brutally? By whom was the question, and why? Stosh Klewzewski, the cruel leader of the violent Catholic White Knights is charged with the murder. But did he do it?