Bøger af George Snyder

They have the twenty dollar plates, the presses, the equipment, the barn-enough for $200 million in counterfeit. There's the millionaire widow, the dirty cop, the engraver, the other private eye, the Asian paper/ink man, the wealthy husband, his thug, the deadly, gorgeous beauty contestant, the two connected mobsters from Nevada-and a rising body count. Connecting them is the cute, dumb slut-Jill Riley. Her man Zippy-G, master forger, is getting out of prison. He told those looking for the design, Jill has the hundred thousand bogus cash, Jill has the plates, Jill knows everything-go see Jill-sweet Jill, three abortions by age eighteen, an endless string of men; easy to look at, easy to have-she only knows how to give. What Jill needs is protection. What she wants is a hard, tough bodyguard-the Bellingham private detective drunk, Logan Sand.

For Colt Fallon, a fat reward to return the kidnapped girl instead of a risky ransom, plus taking a few million in diamonds from a safe-deposit box might work despite being crossed by his ex-girlfriend, Nikki, and if he didn't get killed by the kidnapper Waco Martin seeking revenge, or the tall, beautiful black sniper for The Principles, Yolanda Smart. In chases that lead from Lake Tahoe to the Northwest to the Bahamas in everything from a battered van to a Chinese junk, Colt Fallon is stripped of everything as he meets with double-cross, treachery, killings, and bullet wounds, while he tries to stay alive long enough for a payday, some love with his new nurse Denise, and a long sail into the sunset...

ALONG SMALL HIGHWAYS BY GEORGE SNYDER A MEMOIR ABOUT TRAVEL AND CARS FROM SEAWEED LIBRARY EXCLUSIVELY THROUGH AMAZON Come along on a personal odyssey road trip around America, from September to December. When a tech writing contract ends at Case Tractor, Racine, Wisconsin, the writer loads up his $900 Honda Civic already driven 140, 000 miles with a Kmart two-man tent and sleeping bag and drives north. From Quebec City through New England to Key West then north to Memphis and west back home, he camps and records his experience as he relives time spent with every car he ever owned. This is a memoir about more than cars and travel; it shows us when he owned the cars, what was going on in the world at the time, who he was with and where he went. This is about people, places, and impressions. Enjoy the trip.

Bay Rumble sails his small sloop to the Florida Keys. He has been hired by an oil millionaire to find a teen granddaughter missing more than a decade, who is connected to Bay's past. In his search he finds himself in a world of murder, larceny, sunken doubloons, and a heroin deal with the Russian mafia that turns deadly. While the girl appears always out of reach, Bay gets caught up in a worldwide girl slave trade business operating deep in the Everglades among crocodiles and alligators. He attacks the island only to come up empty. He invades a mansion going after the wealthy slave trade leader with auctioned girls. But is the granddaughter there? Have the deadly doubloons sunk forever in the Everglades? Through a storm of explosions and gun battles, Bay seeks answers.

In this first Bay Rumble crime thriller, Bay is hired by a mobster widow to find a missing diary belonging to the long-legged beauty blown away right in front of him. Delving into the woman's history, he learns she was a bad girl, and not the only bad girl he encounters. He gets involved with a faithless wife who has a killer husband; meets good cops, bad cops, mob hit men, an ex-stud, ex-con gone to seed, a sparkly bar maid somebody wants dead, and other serious killers.

From Cushman motor scooter to 4-cylinder Honda, Roar and Thunder is a personal lifetime journey of owning and riding motorcycles. Solo or two-up, it tells of riding adventures through six western states, Canada and Mexico-what was going on at the time, and the changes in motorcycles and attitudes about them. There are twisty open roads, sand trails, quick boring freeways, traffic jams, high desert winds and blinding blizzards. The big motorcycle evens of the past are here-Death Valley Run, Indio, Lone Pine, Yuma Prison Run, Sunday Poker Runs, and just rides for burger and beers. Absent are Harley-Davidson only events. If motorcycles are part of your life, come along for the ride.

FIFTH NOVEL IN THE MAC TUFF SERIES Mac Tuff is hired by desert artist Jodie Dale to find her brother who is in trouble, again. He and friends hit safety deposit boxes and now somebody is wiping out the robbers one-by-one. They found something to use for blackmail against a senator and a mobster. Intertwining with these people Mac finds deep prejudice, soiled politicians, lies, deceit, incest, betrayal, mobsters, dead bodies and attempts on her life before she nails villains within a desert inferno threatening to engulf everyone, including her and Ace.

A man ripped apart becomes hollow, without name or place, or memory. Stripped of all close and dear, such a man is feared because he lives beyond torn yesterdays with nothing left to lose. Barely civilized, Logan Sand, the Bellingham, Washington Private Detective becomes such a man. His world blown out from under him, he begins a search for identity, only to find a Colombian Cartel seeking revenge for stolen product while a Russian mafia contact offers millions. Coming at him are battered women, seduction, treachery, killers and perennial victims-while the growling revenge-hungry beast claws at his insides demanding release.

FIRST IN THE LOGAN SAND SERIES: A brooch encrusted with red diamonds; priceless; created by an African craftsman; taken by a Calcutta Raja; stolen when a Scottish pirate plundered the Raja's fleet and harem; kept for generations by pirate descendents; repeatedly passed hand to hand from India to Morocco to China to South America and Mexico; killed for in world backwater ports and alleys and steaming ghettos, passed along through treachery, thievery and murder until it reaches Private Detective Logan Sand's territory in the Pacific Northwest on the body of an India gem peddler. Logan is hired by an enemy he should have killed twenty years ago to find the Calcutta Dragon, along with the mobster's girlfriend who took it, killing her way along to disappear.

In his search for Megan Brooks, the fourteen year-old adopted daughter of Andy, a suicide, wheelchair bound Navy buddy, Logan Sand, northwest PI stomps through the sewer of underage prostitution from street corners to whore houses to truck stop lot lizards. He must deal with his own inner beast and demons as he searches for Megan and her cousin, Haley Jacobs age sixteen, and meets resistance from pimps and the girls who love them, girls drawn by a cult that uses religious faith to recruit the innocent. Wading through drugs and killers, Logan learns Megan may be his own biological daughter. Nun Sister Maria provides a way back for the plundered angels with her work farms, but she cautions nobody can rescue all the girls, or even a few, lucky to save one. Logan intends to find Megan. He will save her. Sister Maria detects in Logan a personal anguish but will not believe he is-as he says-a man without a soul.

After Sister Agnes is killed by what police call a wild, random shot, her younger sister hires Mac Tuff to prove the nun was murdered because of what she knew. Mac discovers enough priest abuse and corruption within The Church to equal the world mafia. When church activities hit close to her heart, and her life, Mac not only has to put a stop to them, she finds her own beliefs and faith shaken to the limit of control.

SECOND NOVEL IN THE MAC TUFF SERIES: Kara Ramsey has terminal breast cancer. Not waiting to suffer the agony, she hires a PI to order a hit contract on herself. The cancer goes into remission. Now she can't call off the contract. That's where Mac Tuff enters Kara's life. Mac will tear away the contract, but Mac's life changes when she learns she might have the disease herself.

NEW SERIES RELEASE FROM SEAWEED LIBRARY ORIGINAL CRIME THRILLER EXCLUSIVELY THROUGH AMAZON FIRST NOVEL IN THE MAC TUFF SERIES: Mac, the one gal operative of Makayla Tuff Private Investigation in Branch Lake, Arizona, takes on a lesbian missing partner case that leads to treachery, killings, Vegas mobsters, a desert shootout... and eight hundred fifty thousand embezzled dollars everybody wants. Personally, there's Ace, the senior hunk man in her life; Mom in her mobile home living with Mac's divorced sis, Alyssa, and the late Mr. Tuff's mistress, Traci; the trailer boys, Manny, Moe and Jake, renting trailer spaces from Mac and wanting a swimming pool. Empty box hives Mac built waiting for a queen bee, and Mac's 22' Airstream home. Can Mac find Ella, the missing partner who ran off with of all things, a man, a mousy accountant, Aaron? What about Aaron's wife, Gloria? And the two hit men, Dove and Deeks, sent by casino owner, Tips? And why does Tips put out a hit order on Mac? How is her guy Ace involved? What really happened fifteen years ago? Where is the money?

They tortured her. They cut her throat and bled her then hung her from the rigging of Bay Rumble's self-designed, self-built sailing catamaran home, Baye Rumb. Three sisters hire Bay to find who did it. Wading through more killings and treachery, Bay finds his wisecracking, noisy, disrupting personality fighting terrorists with a plan torn out of today's headlines; drug smugglers, government agents, exploding boats, sea chases, twists, turns, even personal tragedy, and finally, Bay himself is tortured, left to die, and not sure he can wrap up and tie off this caper.

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Sailing on a Mexican treasure hunt for buried gold with his two-girl lesbian crew, Bay finds drugs, is attacked by the cartel, and loses all he owns as he's dumped in the desert and left to die. Rescued by Carlos and his daughter, Consuela, who is lusted after by the hissing evil, Pierre Dante, Bay gets involved in a cartel war. He dodges Baja bullets in an attempt to rescue the girl and get his revenge. "Raw and believable, this first person narrative suggests that Snyder's character Baylor Rumble could perhaps take on the mantle of the late great John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee." - Robert Morton, author of "Death is Another Life".

It was a movie to die for and a few were doing just that- dying. In this caper, Bay, in Avalon on Catalina Island gets involved with a movie being filmed, and the odd people making it. There is the come-on seductive script girl, self-promoting actors, the aging screen diva, the alfalfa growing producer, the sleazy pedophile director, the washed out screenwriter, the molested child star, explosions, drug deals, deception, sea chases and slaughter, and a few more killings. With his special wisecracking, disrupting personality Bay sends the film into the toilet as he foils the drug deal, brings down the child molester, and wipes out all the Catalina Killers.

THIRD NOVEL IN THE MAC TUFF SERIES "It's about as dysfunctional as family groups get. Some want the money, some want the power, some want the women. A few want it all. One or two want everybody dead. I have to stop it before the mutilation touches me personally, and it may already have." - Mac Tuff It was a simple caper for Mac Tuff, Branch Lake, Arizona private detective. Follow the cheating husband, identify the woman causing him to cheat. Report the woman to the wife. Easy as gripping her Glock nine. If it was so easy where did the personal tragedy come from? How did it wrap around her and every part of her life? Friends killed, family attacked, and bodies stacked everywhere she turned. How did she let it happen?