When a double-crossing gunman called Quint stole Hart's horse from a Stillwater saloon, Hart went all out to see his blood spattered over the Eufaula prairie …Then the Quint boys joined a cattle-rustling set-up under that crazy lady Belle Starr, and Hart was appointed to clean them up real good. For seventy-five bucks a month, he could afford to take a few chances, as well as tangle with a band of trigger-happy Cherokees …

The trickle of blood from a scalped corpse in a deathly quiet Stillwater saloon told Hart that the Cheyenne had paid a visit … But there had to be a reason.A crooked rancher called Fredericks … a loud-mouthed cowboy who deserves what's coming to him … a shady deal with the Cheyenne on the receiving end … and that two-bit rustler called Belle Starr with a liking for hard-hitting, hawk-eyed gunmen – like Wes Hart.

Wes Hart — ex-soldier, ex-Texas Ranger, ex-rider with Billy the Kid. He's tough, ruthless and slick with a .45. He's for hire now and he isn't cheap. In the old West, gunfighting was a trade you started early. Wes Hart killed his first man when he was still in his teens and so did John Wesley Hardin. Hardin went on to carve himself a notch in the history books, if it's a notch you merit when you're an outlaw with all the virtues of a renegade rattlesnake. There's a posse of Rangers who've ...

Appointed regulator in the silver-mining town of Tago, Hart had his work cut out—there was Crazy John Carter, cold-blooded murderer of two kids. But when he tried to burn Hart alive, he didn't bank on getting a gutful of lead in the bargain …Then there was silver thief and rapist Jake Henry … Dan Waterford, out to blow the brains out of the punk who killed his brothers … and scheming Lacey, whose last wish was to see a big red hole in Hart's head.Tago was really one hell of a...

Revised and updated, this long-awaited second edition provides a comprehensive introduction to what the most thoughtful Americans have said about the American experience from the colonial period to the present. The book examines the political thought of the most important American statesmen, activists, and writers across era and ideologies, helping another generation of students, scholars, and citizens to understand more fully the meaning of America.This new second edition of the b...

100+ Civil War Soldier Memoirs assembles a capacious, often conflicting archive of lived experience from the American Civil War. Ranging from battlefield recollection, campaign narrative, naval observation, prison testimony, and partisan chronicle to retrospective meditation, these memoirs reveal how war was recorded in both immediate sensory detail and later acts of remembrance. Accounts of celebrated operations stand beside less familiar episodes of marching, illness, comradeship, comman...

Why would a fifteen-year-old boy commit suicide? Mind you, who cares when he's a no-good kid on trial for bludgeoning an elderly couple to death?But when the senior investigating officer is then found brutally murdered, DI Charlie Resnick is put on the case, and uncovers some sinister and startling revelations.It also brings Resnick into contact with Hannah Campbell, with whom he finds himself falling unexpectedly and awkwardly in love.

'John Harvey is one of the all-time greats and remains one of my favourite writers.' IAN RANKINAs heard on BBC Radio 4 in the Resnick dramatisations, now collected in audiobook for the first time_____________________A series of brutal robberies takes Detective Inspector Charlie Resnick back ten years.To a time when a rash of very similar incidents left him face to face with a frenzied sociopath who nearly bro...

'A war between the past and the present, in a place wracked by guilt and vengeance, a country torn into pieces. A brilliant, important and moving book about the legacy of 1984, and where and who we are now.' David Peace.The final DI Charlie Resnick novel, from the Cartier Diamond Dagger winner and Sunday Times bestselling author of Cold in Hand.Thirty years ago, the Miners’ Strike threatened to tear the country apart, turning neigh...

The second Detective Inspector Frank Elder novel, from the master of British crime writing.When the take-down of a violent criminal goes badly wrong, something doesn't feel right to Detective Sergeant Maddy Birch. And her uneasiness is compounded by her belief that someone is following her home.Retired Detective Inspector Frank Elder's daughter, Katherine, is running wild. Elder's fears for his daughter are underscored by guilt - it was his involvement in a...

'Forty-eight hours, that's what they reckon, isn't it? Forty-eight hours. If you don't find them in that, likely they're sodding dead...'A cabbie's just been beaten up, there's a drunk and disorderly in the interview room and a possible child abuser on the way in. Nothing unusual there, then, just a pretty normal Christmas holiday for DI Resnick and his team.Normal, that is, until Dana Matthieson calls to report her flatmate, Nancy, missing.Dana's had a pretty grim ...

Ruth and Simon Pierce's rare romantic break is shattered by devastating news: their daughter, Heather, on holiday in Cornwall with a friend's family, has disappeared. The loss is more than they - or their marriage - can bear. But time does heal and slowly Ruth builds a new life for herself. A new husband, Andrew - even a second daughter, Beatrice.The chances that history could repeat itself are next-to-impossible - that is until, years later, a desperate phone call launches DI Will...