Mostrando resultados por autor "WF Waldrip" en Todas las categorías

A sweeping epic spanning two millennia, WF Waldrip's monumental Africa follows two men, the arcs of whose lives become unexpectedly intertwined: Crixus, a Roman legionnaire, and Alexander Laidlaw, a professional hunter in modern Africa. Crixus and his fellow legionnaires of Legio XVI Bestia are tasked with capturing wild animals in the heart of Africa, creatures ultimately destined for slaughter in the Flavium Amphitheater, known today as the Colosseum, for the entertainment of the Roman masses. Crixus' ostensible modern counterpart, Laidlaw, assists clients in hunting African big game. ...

The abandoned desert cemetery was easy to overlook. Countless motorists drove right past it every day without realizing it was even there, utterly unaware of its existence. But Cameron had long known of the isolated graveyard and was puzzled to see a peculiar figure standing in it one night as he drove past. His curiosity piqued, Cameron investigates the cemetery, only to encounter a dearth of information regarding it: no formal records, no plats, no history to establish when the cemetery was created, nor who lies buried there. Unexpectedly, Cameron’s research carries him backwards ...

Set in sun-drenched Phoenix, Arizona and populated with memorable characters,’ The Guards Themselves’ is the violent chronicle of a corrupt municipal government which, aided by an unwitting media, undertakes to shield from exposure by a naïve attorney general its criminal infrastructure. Written in a graphic style, the book brings together such disparate personalities as a professional killer, a dedicated police officer, a brutal detective, a shabby informant, and innocent citizens in an explosive vortex of manipulation, deception, and murder. Today, as it was two millennia ago, it is ...