Bear Itaxsca is a Native America gunfighter of the old West. A Crow warrior, son of a chief. He fought in the Civil War on the Union side. At the end of the war, he becomes a bounty hunter.Bear is very good with weapons, especially two cap and ball .36 caliber Colts. He carries them like Wild Bill Hickock, in a sash around his waist.Bear encounters two wanted men in a gunfight. He kills them and transports the bodies to Durango, Colorado, to collect the bounty.There...

Vivid new translations of Basho's popular haiku, in a selected format ideal for newcomers as well as fans long familiar with the Japanese master.Basho, the famously bohemian traveler through seventeenth-century Japan, is a poet attuned to the natural world as well as humble human doings; "Piles of quilts/ snow on distant mountains/ I watch both," he writes. His work captures both the profound loneliness of one observing mind and the broad-ranging joy he finds in ou...

Thailand’s ravenous ghost returns for a feast you’ll never forget!Mai is a krasue – a supernatural creature in the form of a young woman’s severed head with a trail of dangling entrails. For generations, she has been imprisoned on a farm in the Northeast. Now, a series of mishaps has set her loose upon Bangkok where she is on the run from a television ghost hunter hoping to turn her into a celebrity and an eccentric fortune teller bent on her destruction.

A gripping thriller set in 1970s East Germany, perfect for fans of Child 44, Phillip Kerr and Martin Cruz Smith.FOR THE STASI, IT'S NOT JUST THE TRUTH THAT GETS BURIED . . .The body of a teenage boy is found weighted down in a lake. Karin Müller, newly appointed Major of the People's Police, is called to investigate. But her power will only stretch so far, when every move she makes is under the watchful eye of the Stasi.The...

Farringdon Chase is a Lord of the Realm and the greatest amateur detective of his time, loved and admired all over the world. However, following a tragic event involving his arch nemesis, Sylvanus Sharp, he dramatically retires from public life. But it is not long before London becomes gripped with fear by the terrible crimes of a new horror, The Gaslit Ghoul! With the population of the capital looking for a saviour, Chase is tempted out of retirement as the crimes and c...

IN EAST GERMANY, SOLVING A MURDER CAN GET YOU KILLED . . .A gripping and intelligent thriller set in East Germany, during the worst winter in one-hundred years. Perfect for fans of Tom Rob Smith, Phillip Kerr and Joseph Kanon.____________________________________In 1978 East Germany, nothing is as it seems. The state's power is absolute, history is re-written, and the 'truth' is whatever the Stasi say it is.So...

The six Indian captives cheered robustly. Desmond yanked his knife from the chest of Kiowa T. Jones and cleaned the blood off in the snow."Let the coyotes have his body," Dez muttered to himself.Dez then moved to cut the ropes off the captives. He directed the former captives, pointing toward the Southeast. "Johnson Grove is that way about twenty miles. You can make it by sundown. Tell the Marshall what happened and turn Kiowa's men over to him. Use their horses. Make the men...

The year is 1987. Having made history by becoming the UK's first female Prime Minister and then driving out the most left-wing manifesto the country has ever seen, Margaret Thatcher faces a climactic third election campaign.Her eight years in power have been pivotal in guiding the UK back onto the path towards prosperity, and as he surveys the scene, David Young, Secretary of State for Employment, can see the fragile seeds of Thatcher's government beginning to grow. But this third ...

Sonnets to Orpheus is Rainer Maria Rilke's first and only sonnet sequence. It is an undisputed masterpiece by one of the greatest modern poets, translated here by a master of translation, David Young.Rilke revived and transformed the traditional sonnet sequence in the Sonnets. Instead of centering on love for a particular person, as has many other sonneteers, he wrote an extended love poem to the world, celebrating such diverse things as mirrors, dogs, fruit, breathing, and childho...

How do you solve a murder when you can't ask any questions?The gripping new thriller from the bestselling, award-winning author of Stasi Child.East Germany, 1975. Karin Müller, sidelined from the murder squad in Berlin, jumps at the chance to be sent south to Halle-Neustadt, where a pair of infant twins have gone missing.But Müller soon finds her problems have followed her. Halle-Neustadt is a new town - the pride of the co...

Bear's gun gleamed in the sunlight, hot after being fired so many times. The street was littered with dead and dying men, groaning and gasping their last breath of air, before meeting the Great Mystery.Smoke filled the still morning air and Bear waited for the law to show up. It was always this way."What's going on here?" shouted a voice."Did that damned Injun do it again?"It was town Marshal Joseph Todd that stood before Bear, a shotgun pointed at his head.

Almost every generation of Americans has lived with the existence of war in their lifetime. The Viet Nam War was my generation's nightmare. Whether or not we had a loved one as a soldier or other military agent in the war, the Viet Nam War affected our lives drastically. The news reported it daily. Images were imprinted on our minds. The protests seemed to involve all of us as if we were there.This is one more personal telling of those events. Even though it has been fictionalized,...