When Range Detective Rance Dehner stops to make camp he hears a strange sound coming from the surrounding brush. A young girl of about five is hiding there, unable to speak and her eyes reflecting terror. Within minutes, someone tries to ambush both Dehner and the child. Bullets continue to fly as Dehner discovers that the child has witnessed her parents' murder and that the horrifying experience has traumatized her into silence. The detective's investigation leads him into a bizarre small...

When range detective Rance Dehner kills outlaw Tully Brooks, he finds that the case will not be closed so easily. Before dying, Brooks tells Dehner that he was involved in a fake bank robbery in which no money was stolen. An innocent man has been arrested for the hold up, and Brooks wants Dehner to investigate. Dehner's compliance with a dying man's request sends him to Hard Stone, Colorado, where the fake robbery took place. This prosperous mining town is layered in mystery and violence; ...

story falls along the line of a man coming home after the civil war finding his family killed with only his brother left. aiso, his old girl friend had married a never do well. .not to forget, the ranch has a large mortgage on it with unusual circumstance surround it. its up to waco to rectify the situation

Beneath the sunny skies of the Florida Panhandle, dark currents flow--hidden and secretive. Meeting in utmost seclusion, a private club of rich and powerful men meet to discuss their favorite pastime, hunting-people. Under cover of night, they capture their hapless, unsuspecting victims and carry them to the Kill Club's hunting preserve. After a time, they release the prey then hunt them down and kill them.And the latest hunt is about to start. But one of their victims this time is...

Updated third edition: "An excellent work. . . . This history may be the best space summary currently in publication." — Journal of Military and Strategic StudiesFor more than sixty years, countries have conducted military and civilian activities in space, often for competitive purposes. But they have not yet fought in this environment. This book examines the international politics of the space age from 1957 to the present, the reasons why strategic restra...

The contributors discuss Soviet-North Korean nuclear relations, economic and military aspects of the nuclear programme, the nuclear energy sector, North Korea's negotiations with the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization, co-operative security, and US policy. Focusing on North Korean attitudes and perspectives, the text also includes Rus

A unique overview of the United States’ current nuclear command, control, and communications system and its modernization for the digital ageConcerns about the security of nuclear command, control, and communications (NC3) systems are not new, but they are becoming more urgent. While modernization is crucial to the future success of NC3 systems, the transition from analog to digital technologies has the potential to introduce vulnerabilities and unintended conseque...

Collects Gambit (2012) #1-17 and material from A+X #3. Gambit has sets his sights on his biggest scores yet — but he may end up over his head! Raiding a lost temple of doom is all in a day’s work for Marvel’s premier thief…until an ancient god-monster is accidentally loosed on Earth. Then, Gambit travels to the United Kingdom to heist the greatest weapon in the history of man: Excalibur! Whether he’s rescuing archaeologists from the Forever City, teaming up with Avengers marksman Hawkeye, ...

Collects Gambit (2012) #1-7. When Marvel's premiere thief sets his sights on his biggest score yet, he may just end up over his head. It's going to take more than just playing cards and southern charm to get out of this one! Then, coerced by a criminal mastermind, Gambit is sent to the United Kingdom to heist the greatest weapon in the history of man: Excalibur!

An elderly Blackfeet warrior tells the story of his youth, when his tribe owned and lived free on the great plains at the foot of the Rocky Mountains. During those days of freedom and plenty, they hunted the vast herds of buffalo, worshipped their ancient gods and sought glory in war parties against their traditional tribal enemies. In order to achieve his adulthood in the tribe, Little Otter must face the dangerous vision quest to find his sacred helper and then risk death as a member of ...

They’re feeding on you too.A father returns from serving in Vietnam with a strange and terrifying addiction; a man removes something horrifying from his fireplace, and becomes desperate to return it; and a right-wing news channel has its hooks in people in more ways than one.From department store Santas to ghost boyfriends and salamander-worshipping nuns, from the claustrophobia of the COVID-19 pandemic to small-town Chesapeake USA, Clay McLeod Chapman takes universal fears...

From birth, the Savage brothers were taught by their father, Deuce, that life is like a sandwich; any way you flip it, the bread comes first. They were taught to get money, not fall in love, so they left a wreckage of broken hearts on their road to getting money. Yet, now, as mature men, they realize that you’re not rich until you have something that money can’t buy. And money certainly cannot buy the women that have stolen these brothers’ hard and stubborn hearts.Taye “City” Savag...