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1) Widowmaker
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DELAMAR, NEVADA, 1907
THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR IS OVER, BUT A NEW CONFLICT IS RAGING across the western United States. Wealthy mine owners and their political allies in Cripple Creek, Colorado, and Butte, Montana, have paid for state and private armies to brutally, suppress striking miners, so when a series of extraordinary gold and silver discoveries pull Nevada out of a punishing, 25-year depression, the Silver State's isolated mining camps are...
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"When a mysterious woman in distress appears outside his home, Mike Bowditch has no clue she is about to blow his world apart. Amber Langstrom is beautiful, damaged, and hiding a secret with a link to his past... She claims her son Adam is a wrongfully convicted sex offender who has vanished from a brutal work camp in the high timber around the Widowmaker Ski Resort. She also claims that Adam Langstrom is the illegitimate son of Jack Bowditch, Mike's...
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Black Harbor novels volume 2
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"A wealthy family shrouded in scandal; a detective tasked with solving an impossible cold case; and a woman with a dark past collide in Hannah Morrissey's stunning new Black Harbor mystery, The Widowmaker. Ever since business mogul Clive Reynolds disappeared twenty years ago, the name "Reynolds" has become synonymous with "murder" and "mystery." And now, lured by a cryptic note, down-on-her-luck photographer Morgan Mori returns home to Black Harbor...
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In one volume: the first two books featuring bounty hunter extraordinaire Jefferson Nighthawk, from the multiple Hugo Award-winning author.
When one man known for his killing skills is cloned, the galaxy's bad guys are put on high alert, in this series from the author praised as "thought-provoking, imaginative . . . and above all galactically grand" by the Los Angeles Times.
The Widowmaker
The governor of Solio II has been assassinated-and...
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From the great-grandson of famed U. S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn comes an authentic new "True Grit" Western classic.
With a bag full of gold dust, Newt "Widowmaker" Jones is set for life. Then he makes his first mistake, trusting a cheerful stranger. By dawn the stranger--Javier Cortina, the son of the famous Texas border bandit, Juan "Red" Cortina--is gone. So is the gold. So are Newt's horse and even his fearsome Colt.44. It's enough to make a man...
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When the ruling corporations of Earth's last free city cover up the incident, Dawn Moriti is hired to discover the fate of a lost researcher.
Her client is her sister, a genetically engineered soldier who threatened to kill her if they ever ran into each other again. The missing researcher? Their kid brother Pascal.
Together, they will have to set aside their differences and navigate the tangled web of a corrupt corporation with a private military.
Dawn...
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First in the series following the exploits of the most dangerous man in the galaxy-and his clone-from the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author.
On Deluros VIII, the capital of mankind's sprawling Oligarchy, the most famous killer in the galaxy has rested in DeepSleep for over one hundred years, hoping for a cure for the disease that plagues him. But now it's time to wake him up.
The governor of Solio II has been assassinated-and the hunt for his...
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Despite everything, I felt very lucky to have flown Corsairs. They were the best, you know, even though it took me some time to realize this when so many friends died flying them. -Colin Facer, Corsair pilot, HMS Illustrious
The Vought-Sikorsky Corsair was one of the most potent fighters of WWII-and one of the most flawed. Conceived by Rex Beisel, Vought's Chief Designer in 1938, it was condemned by the US Navy as too dangerous for carrier operations...
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A bounty hunter has a legacy that he-and his clones-can't escape in this explosive science fiction adventure from the Hugo and Nebula Award—winning author.
After more than a century in deep freeze, Jefferson Nighthawk is waking up from his sleep, finally cured of the disease that almost killed him. Now sixty-two years old, he's ready for a new kind of life, one of peace and quiet. The former bounty hunter has made enough widows, not to mention...
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The multiple Hugo Award-winning author resurrects the consummate bounty hunter in this action-packed novel of interstellar adventure.
On Deluros VIII, Jefferson Nighthawk rests in DeepSleep until a cure is found for the disease that dooms him. At least, that would be the case if he wasn't the Widowmaker, the most remarkable killing machine in the galaxy. There are those who will pay whatever it takes to hire a man with his talents. Or should we say...
11) The Widowmaker
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A fifteen year-old unsolved case is still causing problems - this time in Homicide Detective Stan Brookshire's backyard. Newlyweds seem to be an endangered species in and around Lake City. What evidence there is, lies with a small-town sheriff and may or may not have been gathered and handled properly. Stan can only hope to make sense of what's been left behind and apply it to the recent case before more innocent lives are lost. Meanwhile, Father...
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Retirement is a dangerous game for a cloned bounty hunter, in the third and fourth books in the series featuring Jefferson Nighthawk.
There's no rest for the lethal-no matter what version-in the science fiction adventure series that proves "nobody spins a yarn better than Mike Resnick" (Orson Scott Card, New York Times—bestselling author of Ender's Game).
The Widowmaker Unleashed
After more than a century in deep freeze, Jefferson Nighthawk is...
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Collects Black Widow: Deadly Origin (2009) #1-4, Black Widow (2010) #1-8, Widowmaker (2010) #1-4, Fear Itself: Black Widow (2011) #1, Black Widow Saga (2010) #1; material from Enter the Heroic Age (2010) #1, Iron Man: Kiss and Kill (2010) #1. Thrilling adventures of Marvel's deadliest superspy! Natasha's shadowy past once again threatens all she holds dear in a globe-hopping thriller! As the Black Widow's house of cards comes crashing down around...
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A playwright vacationing in Jamaica becomes dangerously obsessed with deep-sea diving Ron Grant is one of the finest playwrights of his generation, second only to Tennessee Williams in pure genius. But success does not mean he feels like a man. On vacation in Jamaica with his mistress, an ice queen who considers him her personal trophy, his thoughts are back in New York City, with a beautiful young girl he met a few days before he left town. As the...
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Thunderbolts volume 133
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Norman Osborn's violent purges have rid his black-ops squad of all but the most heartless mercenaries - but Songbird, once thought to be among the casualties, has returned for revenge! Taking on a team of the world's most vile super villains single-handedly is more than most heroes can manage, especially when those killers are funded by the government. And although Songbird's former teammates were no angels, this new group is comprised of the most...
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Hawkeye and Mockingbird/Black Widow volume 1
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Also collects Solo Avengers 14-16 (Hawkeye & Mockingbird/Black Widow stories). Who is hunting Marvel's super-spies? Espionage agents around the world are being assassinated, their covers blown, and governments' intelligence and security capabilities devastated! The person behind it: an all-new Ronin! The next two super-spies targeted for death: Black Widow and Mockingbird! The wildcard determined to unmask the killer: Hawkeye! Let the game begin as...
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A collection of short fiction, including an Edgar Award–nominated story, about hard-luck characters and the human instinct to survive.
A survivor of Little Bighorn faces down the resulting trauma in the decades following the bloody battle. An old man who has lost his late wife's cat joins forces with an unlikely partner to rescue abused animals. An ex–racecar driver contends with criminals in the midst of the famous Dakar Rally. Challenge...
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The soul-chilling story of Carlos MacIntyre continues with exploration into the darkest unswept chambers of his mind. Therein, his innermost fears are revealed, including his fear of the Light of Death himself, his dark side, the Widow-Maker. Since the Widow-Maker emerged from the darkness within him in The Awakening of the Widow-Maker, Carlos MacIntyre has sought to understand the mission of this Egyptian Blackness and be at one with his teacher....
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"The Widow-Maker Heart attack at age 48" was written by a "miracle" survivor of a massive heart attack. He provides hope and a pathway to recovery for other heart attack patients and their loved ones facing the same daunting life changing, unexpected experience. His entire first year of life after suffering his heart attack; actually dying six times, is chronicled in this book combined with his ever changing physical and psychological feelings.
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