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When Tip Creston comes to the town of Greenwood, he learns of the disappearance of a fifteen-year-old Romanian girl ten years earlier. Before long, a neighboring wheat farmer is found dead. Suspicion falls on a rancher who has been carrying on with the farmer's wife, but there is no compelling motive. Then Tip learns that the wheat farmer was in collusion with the owner of the grain elevator to embezzle wheat.The disconsolate boyfriend of the missing girl is obsessed with the case and begins to meddle. Not much later, the housekeeper for the grain merchant's mother is found dead on the open range.In town, Tip follows the crowd to the grain elevator, where the disconsolate boyfriend has gone after the grain dealer in the offices on the second story. He pursues the grain dealer out onto the roof and has a confrontation.Many of the townspeople are reluctant to take the initiative to know more, but Tip feels a need to continue to push for the truth about what happened to Rosina Petrescu, the rose of Greenwood.

Spur Award-Winning Author Patrick DearenSTARFLIGHT TO ETERNITY(a.k.a. Starflight to Faroul)"I held the secret of creation in my hands, but I lost it and can never have it again!"Starflight to Eternity, a wizened old man named Kasterfayette has returned from deep space, bearing a strange tale of the planet Faroul. This legendary world is said to be a place where time began and ends, and where a man may gain the power to create. But Faroul is much more, for it holds the destiny of the universe.Alan Burke, a young officer assigned to a starship, deserts when superiors hurl missiles against his home planet. Turning to space piracy, he takes vengeance by preying on government ships. During an attack on a transport, Burke rescues Kasterfayette, a top-secret prisoner who whispers in his dying breaths the location of Faroul.Along with a vicious conspirator called Poteet, a prostitute named Davon, and a young man he loves as a son, Burke sets out on a perilous interstellar journey for Faroul and the deepest secrets of the cosmos.

"Bold, taut, and masterfully told."-James Rollins, New York Times bestselling author of The Doomsday KeyA new thriller from the award-winning authors of The Grail ConspiracyMagazine journalist Seneca Hunt is reporting on the opening of Montezuma's tomb in Mexico City when the dig team, led by her fiancé Daniel Bernal, learns that the remains of the Aztec emperor are missing. Within moments of the discovery, an apparent terrorist attack kills everyone at the site-including Daniel. Seneca barely escapes the carnage.Determined to get answers, Seneca starts investigating. She finds out that someone is stealing the remains of the most infamous mass murderers in history-and plotting to slaughter millions in the name of an ancient cult. Seneca teams up with bestselling novelist Matt Everhart to prove the threat really exists while trying to stay one step ahead of those who want her dead. With time running out, she must follow a deadly 2,000-year-old trail that leads back to the death of Jesus Christ.Praise for The Phoenix Apostles"What do you get when you cross Indiana Jones with The Da Vinci Code? The Phoenix Apostles, a rollicking thrill ride with so many twists and turns that you won't have time to catch your breath!" -Tess Gerritsen, New York Times bestselling author of Ice Cold"Sholes and Moore have created a knockout apocalyptic thriller, an epic tale of gold, archaeology, mass murder, ancient prophecy and terrorism." -Douglas Preston, New York Times bestselling author of Impact"A fascinating, compelling page-turner." -Carla Neggers, New York Times bestselling author of Cold Dawn

The Texas Rangers are after a bandido who is as deadly and dangerous as his namesake, the dreaded gila monster. Gila has been raiding Texas ranches, rustling, raping and murdering. The Gunsmith is recruited to track him south of the border where the Rangers have no authority. There he confronts the bandit, whose armor breastplate and metal gauntlets with steel spikes make him the strangest and most awesome foe Clint has ever battled...

Rufus King has made a lot of enemies-and he deserves them all. Now, three of them are on his trail ready to dish out their own brand of frontier justice.Clint Adams is after King because King bushwhacked the Gunsmith and wounded his horse, Duke. But the Gunsmith is not alone as he joins up with a Chinese master of the martial arts and a black gunman on a dangerous trail of revenge...

They called it Battles Mountain, but it belonged more to the bank than to the Battles family. Now, they have to get their timber down the mountain fast enough to stop the bank from reclaiming the land.Clint Adams is just passing through North Dakota, but when the Battles brothers help him out in a fight, the Gunsmith feels obliged to return the favor-especially since they have a big, good- looking sister. Helping to fend off the unscrupulous "banker," Clint comes head to head with a gunslinger out to make his reputation-over Clint's dead body!

Things start getting too hot for Clint Adams after he's forced to gun down a young tough who tried to outdraw him. To get away from it all for a while, the Gunsmith jumps at an offer to go to South America-and capture a deadly jaguar that is terrorizing the local ranchers. But Clint soon discovers that there is more than one wildcat on the loose as he tangles with a fiery senorita and gets snared by the eager daughter of another!

On the Wyoming range, a good horse is a man's best friend. But for Clint Adams, the big black named Duke is more like his partner. So it's no surprise that when a wealthy Texas rancher offers a ton of money for Duke, the Gunsmith turns him down flat.When Clint is knocked unconscious and Duke disappears, he has a good idea who is to blame. The Gunsmith heads for Texas and a showdown with the rancher, but to no avail: Duke has vanished. With the aid of the thief's daughter, Clint tracks him to the wild herds of the panhandle-not knowing if he'll ever see his "partner" again!

Clint Adams heads for San Francisco, hoping to combine business with pleasure. The pleasure side looks up when he discovers a beautiful Chinese woman waiting in his hotel room. But the pleasure ends abruptly when a martial arts expert knocks Clint unconscious. The Gunsmith awakens with a lump on his head and a dead girl in his bed. It looks like Clint has walked right into the middle of the Yellow Serpent Tongs deadly criminal dealings-now the Gunsmith must clear him-self of murder and crush the Tong if he ever hopes to leave San Francisco alive!

Bank robberies are common in the Idaho territory. But when the Wido bank is robbed, and a deputy is found dead with a strange puncture wound, that is unusual. For once, Clint Adams vows not to get involved as he moves on with his traveling gunsmith shop. But when the Gunsmith meets a beautiful young girl who is fleeing for her life, all his resolve vanishes. The girl has a bizarre tale to tell about a circus run by an Italian master criminal. And before he knows it, the Gunsmith is up against the strangest band of outlaws the West has ever seen!

Someone is trying to kill President Grant, and Clint Adams is drafted to track down the would-be assassin. The trail leads to faraway Alaska where the Gunsmith meets and falls in love with beautiful Joanna Morgan. Clint just about forgets his mission until the assassin gets Joanna into his sights. Now the Gunsmith picks up the trail with renewed vigor and a new motive!

"Ol' Three-Paw" has a price on his head bigger than most outlaws. But this "outlaw" is a killer grizzly so murderous that he makes the James Gang look like the Salvation Army. The Gunsmith joins the hunt for the reward money. But before Clint Adams can catch "Ol' Three-Paw" he has to tame Lacy Blake, a dark-haired lady who will hunt anyone or anything for the right price-and considers herself a match for any man!

New Orleans is a town for high living and high rolling. But the Gunsmith's easy life comes to an abrupt end when he joins up with Henri Duboir to fight a French Quarter crime syndicate.The gang is vicious, lowdown and playing for keeps. Fortunately for Clint Adams, Duboir has a son who can out-fence and out-box the meanest thugs-and an eye for the ladies that matches the Gunsmith's own!

Sheriff Jack Tyler has a habit of looking the other way when there's trouble in Tylerville-but maybe that's because his old man happens to own the town. And maybe that's why they're none too happy when deputy Joe Bags decides to run against Tyler in the next election.Clint Adams comes to the aid of his old friend, agreeing to watch his back until the elections are over. But with Bags watching out for the Tylers, and the Gunsmith watching out for Bags, there's no one left to watch out for the Gunsmith-except the pretty and agreeable daughter of old Zack Tyler himself!

British zoologist Edward Wardell and his beautiful assistant have come to northern California in search of the Sasquatch, America's version of the abominable snowman. Clint Adams thinks they're crazy-until he sees one himself! He hires on as Wardell's troubleshooter. With a pair of bounty hunters on his tail and hostile Indians waiting to pounce, the Gunsmith is faced with the most bizarre challenge of his life as he tries to outwit an inhuman opponent!

Dodge City is as wild a town as they come. In fact, when Clint Adams comes riding in, things are pretty much out of control. Young Deputy Sheriff Bill Tilghman is trying his darndest, but it will take a pack of lawmen to tame this town.A frightened mayor sends for help and the Dodge City Gang responds to the call. Tilghman, Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, his brother Ed Masterson, and Neal Brown-they're the best in the business, and they're ready for action. And of course, the Gunsmith will be where the action is!

When a gang of ruthless bandidos kidnap wealthy Andrew Woodland's daughter, he turns to Clint Adams for help. Adams agrees to go south of the border to rescue the girl. But between hostile Yaqui Indians and corrupt Rurales, the odds are stacked against the Gunsmith.His only allies are some frightened peónes and a hot-blooded senorita with a score of her own to settle. And unless he can turn them into a fighting unit, the Gunsmith will be lucky to get out of Mexico alive!

Lancaster, Texas, is a town without a lawman-the last sheriff fled from a gang that vowed to destroy the town.Clint Adams won't pin on the star, but there is one man eager to take the job. Only problem is, the young ranch hand doesn't know a thing about the lawman business. So the Gunsmith takes Pat Garrett under his wing-just in time for a showdown with the bloodthirsty Chambers gang.

Buckskin' Frank Leslie is a small, wiry man with twin Peacemakers that blaze faster than most men can blink an eye.And it's a lucky thing for Clint Adams when Buckskin Frank jumps into a gunfight on his side-leaving four unlucky hombres dead on the barroom floor. The Gunsmith always repays a favor. But this time it lands him in big trouble with the town banker-and a different kind of trouble with the banker's daughter!

At her father's request, Clint Adams signs on to escort beautiful Linda Mather to meet her fiancé. But the Gunsmith quickly discovers that there's a lot more to worry about than hostile Apaches and Mexican bandidos between Brownsville and Yuma.First off, there are the other members of the escort team-as mean a bunch of low-down back-shooters as you could ever hope not to meet. Then there's the young bride-to-be-she's a lot more interested in the Gunsmith than her upcoming wedding. And finally, there's a sinister secret-which may very well cost the Gunsmith his life...

Wild Bill Hickok is in his grave, the victim of a coward's bullet in the back. And the Gunsmith, shocked and dismayed over his close friend's death, travels to Deadwood seeking the truth-and vengeance. But the truth proves to be mighty hard to come by as Wild Bill, even in his grave, still has some dangerous enemies. Luckily for Clint Adams, he also has some powerful friends determined to even the score...

Clint rode into Two Queens, Nevada, looking forward to the high stakes poker game. They were all invited players, the game should be straight, and he knew there'd be women available... one, a beautiful brunette, was even in the game. But then the players began to die, one by one, and The Gunsmith had to dig down deep to meet the ante...

A woman, a hot meal, a hand of poker-that's all the Gunsmith is after when he rides into Montana. But there's no rest for this living legend of the six-gun. When a band of renegade U.S. soldiers plot to rob the payroll of the Northwest Mounted Police, the Gunsmith is enlisted in the fight to save the loot. Gunpowder chokes the air, and blood spills on the street. The Gunsmith just reckons to make sure that it's his powder, and the other man's blood!

ROCK HARD AND MOUNTAIN MEAN, THEY DON'T COME ANY TOUGHER THAN... MOUNTAIN JACK PIKE.RANDY AND ROUGH, HE'S A MEAN MOUNTAIN MAN WITH A NOSE FOR TROUBLE AND HANKERIN' FOR HOT BEAVER!With the big thaw spreading through Gallatin Fork, Montana, Jack Pike and his pard Skins McConnell aim to take their winter cache of new fur to post. But along the trail, they meet up with Joe Gall and his ragtail camp of green horn trappers, starvin' to death and under attack by a savage war party of Blackfeet. Not a man to go soft in the face of trouble, Pike primes his long gun for a bloody fight.After whipping the men into a frontier force ready for battle, the big trailsman sets his sights on a sexy camp squaw named Bright Deer who's more than willin' to take his best shot. But when the trouble hits, Pike and his men rise up hard and fast, pumpin' enough lethal lead into the redskin horde to bring them to their knees!

RANDY AND ROUGH, HE'S A MEAN MOUNTAIN MAN WITH A NOSE FOR TROUBLE AND HANKERIN' FOR HOT BEAVER!After a spell of setting traps and livin' off the rough mountain country, Jack Pike got hungry for the fleshpots most men call home. Meetin' up with his trail pard Skins McConnell, Pike aimed to sample himself something warm and willin' at the local post when he ran into trouble.Father Smets and his missionaries were on the trail of a lost band of their compadres when their guides robbed them, leaving them stranded in hostile Indian territory. With the Blackfeet and Flathead tribes fixin' to go to war, Pike and McConnell signed on to lead the padre to safe ground. And, when a saucy camp girl named Sally offered to keep his bedroll warm, the big mountain man knew he'd be sitting pretty. But as soon as the fighting started, he had his long gun out, primed and ready to bring the scalp-happy savages to their knees in a bloody desert climax!

RANDY AND ROUGH, HE'S A MEAN MOUNTAIN MAN WITH A NOSE FOR TROUBLE AND HANKERIN' FOR HOT BEAVER! Holed up at a trappers' camp when the winter snow hits, Jack Pike and his ornery trail pard Skins McConnell found good shelter for their hides, and enough cheap whiskey and willin' women to keep them busy until the thaw. But when spring came, Pike pulled together a band of mountain men to run their fur down the Missouri for the fleshpots and trading posts in the city of St. Joe.His long gun primed and cocked, Pike had more hot action than most men could handle. By day, he had the perils of a raging river and bloody troubles with renegade Crow indians at each bend. By night, there were the sure, swift strokes of his dark-haired trail beauty who kept his course straight and his strength up. Then, just shy of port, Cal Devers and his lowdown gang ambushed them. Pumping big-bore bullets fast and furious, the big mountain man brought the deadly fight to a powerful climax of outlaw blood!

Fueled by a passion for baseball at an early age, Rod engaged in a lifetime journey that took him from a right-handed toddler to a left-handed pitcher at the age of two. He progressed from the Little League fields in Santa Fe, New Mexico to a professional minor league career that covered three countries. It wasn't until he amassed over 260 victories in the amateur Men's Adult Baseball League that he became "Ageless Arm." At 45-he threw a 222 pitch double-header victory in Puerto Rico that amazed both teammates and opponents. At the age of 47, he was still throwing no-hitters and shutouts, while traveling the MABL's national circuit. Currently employed as a vice president with Bank of the West, he spends most of his time teaching pitching mechanics to local kids. He is chasing 300 wins and will reach his personal goal sometime in the year 2013.

Dublin is just a small, coal-mining town in Colorado. But the way the Irish and the English are fighting it out, Clint Adams might as well have been transported across the sea to Ireland! The Gunsmith finds himself in the middle of a bloody feud with a band of Molly Maguires on one side and an English mine owner on the other; to make matters worse, an old enemy is stalking him. Clint wants to be a peacemaker, but it looks like the only peace he'll find is in the arms of a pretty Irish lass and a willing English maid!

RANDY AND ROUGH, HE'S A MEAN MOUNTAIN MAN WITH A NOSE FOR TROUBLE AND HANKERIN' FOR HOT BEAVER! All fired up from trapping a load of fresh beaver, Mountain Jack Pike and his ornery sidekick Skins O'Connell pushed through some virgin bush into Fort Halls for a little hard-earned fun. Trading their soft pelts for some hard cash, the burly mountain men snatched up a couple of saloon gals, hungry for some real frontier lovin'. Then, trouble hits. Ol' One Eye, a man-eating wolf, was attacking children and livestock near the fort. Everyone agreed the beast needed killing, but Pike was the only man big enough for the job.With the helping hand of a lusty young widow, the hot-blooded trapper picked up the scent of the demon wolf in the local hills and got down to action. But, Jack soon became the prey of a lowdown killer named De Roche, who was aimin' to collect the secret bounty of Ol' One Eye. Working up to a powerful, high-mountain climax, hard man Pike pumps his long gun fast and furious against both man and animal 'til he laid them down in a flood of hot lead and cold killing!