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How much do you owe a past love? Ever wonder about it? Private Detective Ron Shade does when he bumps into his former lover, Paula Kittermann, late one lonely December night in a hotel bar. Paula had once been a major factor in Shade’s life, but that was a very long time ago. Against his better judgement, he lets her back in, but when she’s gone, without so much as a goodbye kiss, leaving him once with only bittersweet memories of what might have been. Then Paula turns up dead, the apparent victim of a hit-and-run accident. Though shocked, Shade moves on with his life until Paula’s young cousin, Laurie, shows up in Chicago, asking him to look into the matter. Shade’s investigation takes a walk on the seedy side, and begins to attract the attention of some very powerful enemies. But whenever Shade gets close to the truth, somebody seems to end up dead, and he suddenly finds himself the prime suspect in a homicide investigation. Working to clear himself and find out who killed Paula, Shade goes up against some redoubtable foes who will stop at nothing to ensure his search for the truth won’t be completed.

Sam Coffey and Tom Vance had been partners for years, but after the accident neither could stay on at the K-Bar Diamond spread. Now, Sam has more enemies than any man has a right to. Too many enemies, and too few friends, and those friends are no where to be found. If Sam Coffey lives long enough to crawl out of the Mexican desert, it will be nothing short of a miracle.

Palawan is an adventure story that has it all. There is an exotic tropical island location. There are Muslim terrorists, missionary hostages, a millionaire’s daughter, mercenaries, Borneo pirates and a struggle for survival. It’s a story of friendship, courage, life, death and love played out under extreme conditions. The story begins half a world away in the Philippine jungle, continues in Las Vegas and has its unexpected climax on a ranch in the Arizona High desert.

Darby Buckingham, the portly New York writer, had an appetite for local color to add punch to his newest dime novel. But when Hench Hightower rode into town with his half-dead herd of mustangs, Darby had no stomach for what he saw. It was time to end a vicious cattle baron's control of the Nevada range...time to end the murder of the mustangs. Darby looked like a dude, but he'd fight like a demon. Caught up in a stampeding adventure, Buckingham swore he'd live to tell the tale.

Look sharp, hit hard - that's the Derby Man's style. He's a fast-moving mountain of muscle who throws himself into the thick of the West's greatest adventures - like the Pony Express, a grueling 2,000 mile race through hell. The pace and terrain are deadly enough but vengeful Paiute warriors and murdering saboteurs led by a sadistic giant threaten to turn the route into a trail of blood. Then one man with the guts to save the Pony Express stepped forward - the Derby Man.

Clint loved Harry Sundown like a brother till Harry betrayed him to the cattle-stealing mob that threatened to take control of the territory and all the people in it. Killing when he had to, tracking the trail of his stolen money, Clint took off after Harry and his red-headed woman. But the mob had sent bloodthirsty hired-gun Tate Rawson after all three… with orders to capture them, dead or alive. No man had ever bested Tate Rawson…And time was running out.

This is audiobook #18 in the Casca Series. Casca Longinus was cursed by Christ on Golgtha. Condemned to outlive the ages, and wander the globe a constant soldier. Forever fighting, surviving, and waiting for Christ to return. In this book, it is the turn of the century in colonial China, and Casca is a British soldier with a choice: a suicide mission, or the agony of death on the gallows.

Irish immigrant Michael Callahan gets the gold fever and stakes a claim in California. Just when persistence and ingenuity finally payoff, he is jumped by thieves intent upon taking his gold and his life. Michael is saved by Joaquin Murieta with whom he strikes up a friendship. The friendship is quite unusual and the Irishman becomes known as the Gringo Amigo.

The doctors told him he had only a few months to live and there was nothing they could do. But death wasn't what scared T.J. Littlejohn; he had a wife and three children, and nothing to leave them but a tiny slice of East Texas prairie and a handful of cows. He needed money and he needed it fast. A wanted poster in the sheriff's office gave him the answer - he became a bounty hunter.

This is audiobook #9 in the Casca Series. Casca Longinus: Cursed by Christ on Golgotha. He is condemned to outlive the ages, wandering the globe as a constant soldier. He struggles on merely surviving, fighting, waiting for "Him" to return. Centuries later, awakened from frozen slumber by the touch of a beautiful young woman, Casca journeys from the Northern wasteland to the legendary Constantinople, and then on to the war-ravaged shores of North Africa.

This is audiobook #20 in the Casca Series. Casca Longinus, cursed by Christ on Golgotha. Condemned to outlive the ages and wander the globe a constant soldier. Forever fighting and surviving, he must wait for Christ to return. Casca returns to the Middle East, but it is now the 20th century, and he has signed on to fight a religious war.

This is audiobook #21 in the Casca Series. Casca Longinus, cursed by Christ on Golgotha. Condemned to outlive the ages, and wander the globe a constant soldier. Forever fighting, surviving and waiting for Him to return. It was the last gasp of Europe's royal families. World War I began with the assassination of an obscure archduke. But before it ended, most of Europe would turn into a corpse-littered battleground.

This is the fourth audiobook in the "Mars Series". Mars is divided, as not one, but two princes and a Jeddak vie for the love of Thuvia of Ptarth. When she is mysteriously kidnapped, treachery threatens to throw Barsoom into a bloody war. Now Cathoris must follow in the footsteps of his famous father, John Carter. He must overcome phantom armies, dangerous spies, and savage beasts in a heroic attempt to rescue not only his true love, but to save and reunite Mars.

They fought a war without rules, and taught the enemy the legend of the Green Beret. No fighting men in the world were a match for the U.S. Army Special Forces, the men of the Green Beret. But in the chaos of Vietnam, where enemies, allies, friends, and traitors all shared a landscape of terror, the Green Berets had to develop their own tactics and draw closer to the only people they could trust: each other.

The heydays of the gold rush brought many a would be millionaire to the mountains and streams of North Central Washington. The most feared and respected was prospector and mountain man, Bear Walker. But in this episode, Bear is the one subjected to fear. A fear he has never known when his prospector friends start dying from a mysterious cause. Panic sets in among the miners and many believe it’s the plague. But the more Bear investigates, the more curious the situation becomes. He has never before seen anyone die like these miners are dying....

A genuine and vivid chronicle of frontier days along the Ohio River, when a cocked rifle and a soft step were the surest means of survival.

Crossbow was Don Bendell's first book ever, but many still say that it was his best, as it was written very much from the heart. It is the autobiographical story of a young very gung ho Green Beret first lieutenant in 1968 and 1969 and his love affair with the Jeh tribe of Montagnards, a proud, family-oriented tribespeople in Vietnam's mountainous Central Highlands region, the action and intrigue of a horrific war, and the plight of the Montagnards who were racially-discriminated against by our allies in Saigon.

He had a reason for living: to kill, when he was just a boy, the five saddle tramps that had murdered his parents in front of him, and nearly beaten him to death. Rescued by a kindly old Spaniard, most of Wolf's physical wounds were healed. They took his eye, his childhood and his parents, and now Wolf would show them vengeance. For 10 years he plotted as he grew, and sharpened his skill with his Winchester rifle and Colt revolver. Then he went after them, one by one.

Andy Larson, a North Dakota cop, and four close friends hijack a truck load of bootleg booze coming in from Canada. Everything goes wrong when after months of meticulous planning, they take down the whisky truck but one of Andy's friends is killed by a machine gun toting guard. They end up killing all the men in the trucks. When a shaken Larson and his remaining friends unload the whiskey, they find the reason for the extra security: $60,000 in gold coins belonging to Al "Scarface" Capone.

The blonde on the beach was screaming. A dead man lay at her feet. But the murder is only the first ingredient J. P. Beaumont discovers in a deadly mixture of politics and passion.