This is the novel of the Old South, a world few people knew existed - a world of violence, cruelty, greed, and lust. Mandingo brings to vivid life the sounds, the smells, the terrible reality of the slave-breeding farms and plantations where men and women were mated and bred like cattle. Set in the 1830s around a plantation in Alabama owned by a planter named Maxwell, his son Hammond, and the Mandingo slave Ganymede, or Mede, Mandingo is a tale of cruelty toward the black...

This brilliant and brutally intimate novel captures accurately the depravity and intrigue of Ancient Rome. CHILD OF THE SUN tells the story of the youth Varius Avitus Hassianus, destined to become Emperor of the Roman empire. Varius spurned women. His erotic longings searched out a very different kind of love. Whatever or whomever he fancied was quickly offered to him. And no man, be he soldier or citizen, dared refuse him. As his perverted passions grew more and more bizarre, even the vol...

From the Falconhurst breeding farm, she bought a pure black stud. A slave called "a fancy" -- bred for his massive strength and muscular loins.

In "Mandingo," Kyle Onstott presents a gripping and controversial narrative set in the antebellum South, deftly navigating the complexities of race, power, and human desire. Through vivid prose and meticulously crafted characters, Onstott explores the world of plantation life, exposing the brutal realities of slavery while also illuminating the intricate social dynamics that govern the relationships between enslaved individuals and their owners. With a bold and unflinching literary style, ...

Like Mandingo and Drum, Master of Falconhurst shatters the genteel image of the Old South and lays bare the savage truth about slavery and slave-breeding...about plantations like Falconhurst where the cash crop was black flesh, where human beings were stripped bare in the marketplace and sold like cattle.In this great new bestseller, Kyle Onstott unfolds the turbulent drama of Falconhurst caught up in the violence of the Civil War. It also is the story of Drummage, the virile and handsome ...

The world of DRUM is a world of brutality, lust and miscegenation… where chained Negroes are sold like cattle… where prize specimens, male and female are chosen to work in exotic bordellos, and on slave-breeding plantations… where masters, drunk with the power of life and death, force their slaves to entertain them with unspeakable acts.

Set against the harrowing backdrop of antebellum America, Kyle Onstott's "Mandingo" delves into the brutal realities of slavery while exploring the complex interrelations of race, power, and sexuality. Its stark realism is punctuated by Onstott's vivid prose, which refuses to shy away from the grotesque truths of its historical context. The novel's unflinching depiction of the plantation system and its inhabitants offers a poignant critique of a society built on dehumanization, forcing rea...

Kyle Onstott's Mandingo (1957) is a lurid yet historically pointed plantation novel set in the antebellum South, centered on the decaying Falconhurst estate and its brutal economy of race, sex, property, and power. Written in a melodramatic, often sensational style, it belongs to the mid-twentieth-century tradition of popular historical fiction that revisited slavery not as moonlit romance but as a system of bodily exploitation and moral corruption. Its grotesque intensity exposes, even wh...

The inspiration for the hit Netflix series The Lincoln Lawyer.**Lincoln Lawyer Mickey Haller is back on the job in this heart-stopping thriller from a renowned #1 New York Times bestselling author.“One of the finest legal thrillers of the last decade.” —Associated Press**On the night he celebrates a big win, defense attorney Mickey Haller is pulled over by police, who find the body of a former client in the trunk of his Lincoln. Haller is i...

#1 New York Times BestsellerAn Amazon Best Book of 2020The thrilling and addictive prequel to The Pillars of the Earth--set in England at the dawn of a new era: the Middle Ages"Just as transporting as [The Pillars of the Earth] . . . A most welcome addition to the Kingsbridge series." --The Washington PostIt is 997 CE, the end of the Dark Ages. England is facing attacks fro...

A Nashville woman’s violent husband is presumed dead—until he makes a terrifying return in this thriller by the New York Times bestselling author.Leah Carson’s husband Phillip made a promise to her once—that he would kill her. Four years ago, he nearly succeeded, stabbing her twenty-three times before fleeing. Now the police are sure Phillip is dead. But that doesn’t stop Leah from checking and rechecking her locks. Especially when she can sense his attent...

In this thrilling novel from New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly, Harry Bosch teams up with LAPD Detective Renée Ballard to face the unsolved murder of a runaway, and the fight to bring a killer to justice.Detective Renée Ballard is working the night beat—known in LAPD slang as "the late show"—and returns to Hollywood Station in the early hours to find a stranger rifling through old file cabinets. The intruder is retired detective Harry Bosc...