It's almost midnight, bitterly cold, snowing, when a beautiful young girl, Tabitha Willard, throws herself off the Walnut Street Bridge into the icy waters of the Tennessee. Harry Starke is there, on the bridge. Wrong time, wrong place? Maybe. He tries, but is unable to stop her. Thus begins a series of events and an investigation that involves a local United States congressman, a senior lady senator from Boston, a local crime boss, several very nasty individuals, sex, extortion, high finance, corruption, and three murders. Harry has to work his way through a web of deceit and corruption...

Updated for 2015. If you're planning to visit London, you'll find the Visitor's Guide to London a valuable resource. Within the pages of this London travel guide you'll find all the in-depth information you'll need to plan your trip, and to make your visit to London a success, including: Things to do in London: all of the major attractions are covered in-depth, and with full reviews. These include: sightseeing around London, the great London museums and historic buildings (the British Museum; the Natural History Museum; the Tate Galleries; the Victoria and Albert Museum); the London Eye, the...

If you're planning to visit Shakespeare Country, then you'll find this book to a valuable resource for the information you need to plan your visit, and to make it a success. Shakespeare Country encompasses, not only Stratford Upon Avon, but most of the western reaches of the county of Warwickshire, along with the historic towns of Warwick, Kenilworth, and a half-a-hundred towns, villages and hamlets. It's a world unlike any other, historic and stunningly beautiful. This is where I grew up. There not a town or village I haven't visited at one time or another: Stratford uopn Avon, Warwick and...

This is the July 7, 2014, 4th edition of the Visitor's Guide to Bermuda. It has been updated as of July 7, and is always updated very quickly when I learn of new or outdated information; new photos and maps have been added and the maps have been enlarged for better viewing. But there's more: if you decide to purchase the paperback edition, you get the Kindle edition for free. If you're planning a visit to Bermuda, or if you've booked a cruise to the island, you'll find this book a valuable resource. Within these pages you'll find all the In-depth information you'll need about Bermuda to make...

The Mule Soldiers is the true story - fictionalized - of Streight's Raid into Northern Alabama that took place from 19 April to 3 May 1863. A brigade of Federal infantry, led by Colonel Abel D. Streight, set out on a 220-mile ride to destroy the Western and Atlantic railroad at Rome, Georgia. The raid turned into a running battle between Streight's raiders and Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest. The most fascinating thing about the raid is that Streight's brigade of four infantry regiments was mounted on mules, a huge problem in itself. Not only did he have almost 1,500 stubborn and...

On a dark day in April 1865, a band of former Confederate guerillas slaughtered more than forty Comanches, most of them women and children. This began a six-month reign of terror along the Santa Fe Trail as Comanche chief, White Eagle, took his revenge. The U.S. Cavalry was assigned the task of tracking White Eagle and his warriors down. Lieutenant Colonel Ignatius O'Sullivan's orders were to either bring them in or kill them. O'Sullivan, with two companies of cavalry tracked the Comanches through the mountains for more than six weeks, until.... O'Sullivan took to the trail in July of 1865,...