"A jaunty, outstandingly human, and highly successful satire on the habits and ways of professional promoters, on progress in Florida. . . and a lot of other things."--Chicago Tribune
"A delightful discovery for the general reader of Florida fiction." Les Standiford
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"That crazy bastard is famous If he moves here wherever he moves it will be news. It will be on every wire service. It will be in every column. And just what will be the first public reaction?" . . . "My god," Paul said, "You re right." "Paul, do you know how a resort area...
"A jaunty, outstandingly human, and highly successful satire on the habits and ways of professional promoters, on progress in Florida. . . and a lo...
Two founding fathers of American industry.One desire to dominate business at any price. The author of Last Train to Paradise tells the riveting story of Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the bloody steelworkers strike that transformed their fabled partnership into a furious rivalry. Set against the backdrop of the Gilded Age, Meet You in Hell captures the majesty and danger of steel manufacturing, the rough-and-tumble of the business world, and the fraught relationship between the world s richest man and the ruthless coke magnate to whom he entrusted his companies. The...
Two founding fathers of American industry.One desire to dominate business at any price. The author of Last Train to Paradise tells the rive...
Last Train to Paradise is acclaimed novelist Les Standiford s fast-paced and gripping true account of the extraordinary construction and spectacular demise of the Key West Railroad one of the greatest engineering feats ever undertaken, destroyed in one fell swoop by the Labor Day hurricane of 1935. Brilliant and driven entrepreneur Henry Flagler s dream fulfilled, the Key West Railroad stood as a magnificent achievement for more than twenty-two years, heralded as the Eighth Wonder of the World. Standiford brings the full force and fury of 1935 s deadly Storm of the Century and...
Last Train to Paradise is acclaimed novelist Les Standiford s fast-paced and gripping true account of the extraordinary construction and...
Alfonso Zamora is an aging Mexican senior tour player who has discovered he's going blind. Rita Shaugnessy is a lusty, hard-drinking, down-on-her-luck golfer on the women's pro tour. Billy Sprague is a country club pro with the most beautiful golf swing - except when there's money on the line. All three receive an invitation from Philip Bates, the richest man in the world and the founder of Macrodyne Software, to play in a mysterious golf tounament held on a never-before-seen course in Scotland. There the three will play in what will be the golf match of all time and upon whose results rests...
Alfonso Zamora is an aging Mexican senior tour player who has discovered he's going blind. Rita Shaugnessy is a lusty, hard-drinking, down-on-her-luck...
As uplifting as the tale of Scrooge itself, this is the story of how Charles Dickens revived the signal holiday of the Western world. Soon to be a major motion picture. Just before Christmas in 1843, a debt-ridden and dispirited Charles Dickens wrote a small book he hoped would keep his creditors at bay. His publisher turned it down, so Dickens used what little money he had to put out A Christmas Carol himself. He worried it might be the end of his career as a novelist. The book immediately caused a sensation. And it breathed new life into a holiday that had fallen...
As uplifting as the tale of Scrooge itself, this is the story of how Charles Dickens revived the signal holiday of the Western world. Soon to be a ...
"Les Standiford's account of the decades-long attempt to solve the murder of Adam Walsh is chilling, heartbreaking, hopeful, and as relentlessly suspenseful as anything I've ever read. A triumph in every way." --Dennis Lehane, author of Mystic River
"The most significant missing child case since the Lindbergh's....A taut, compelling and often touching book about a long march to justice." --Scott Turow, author of Presumed Innocent
The abduction that changed America forever, the 1981 kidnapping and murder of six-year-old Adam Walsh--son of John Walsh,...
"Les Standiford's account of the decades-long attempt to solve the murder of Adam Walsh is chilling, heartbreaking, hopeful, and as relentlessly su...
The author of Last Train to Paradise tells the story of the largest public water project ever created--William Mulholland's Los Angeles aqueduct--a story of Gilded Age ambition, hubris, greed, and one determined man who's vision shaped the future and continues to impact us today.
In 1907, Irish immigrant William Mulholland conceived and built one of the greatest civil engineering feats in history: the aqueduct that carried water 223 miles from the Sierra Nevada mountains to Los Angeles--allowing this small, resource-challenged desert city to grow into a modern global...
The author of Last Train to Paradise tells the story of the largest public water project ever created--William Mulholland's Los Angeles aq...
