Kategoria BISAC: Fiction >> Action & Adventure

At the end of America's age of innocence, just six weeks before the murder of President John F. Kennedy, 17-year old Lee Moffit is told by his father to leave their Stillwater, Oklahoma, farm and never return. With $40 and a German Luger pistol in his pocket, Lee roars across Route 66 on his motorcycle toward California with dreams of becoming a movie stuntman.

Following one misadventure after the next, Lee arrives in Venice Beach and is befriended by Iris Pond, a hippie with literary ambitions and a troubled past. Lee's hope to capture the California dream turns to despair and leads him...

Some people seem to attract trouble the way a dark blue suit attracts lint. Ron Grizwald, former Marine and Game Warden, just wants to start his life over in the hills of Napa county. That's when Arnold Williams, corporate raider and timber boss, shows up with a job offer--to infiltrate a group of eco-terrorists. It's an offer that down-on-his luck Griz can't refuse. Once he gets there, nothing is what it seems to be, leaving Griz struggling to find out who the bad guys really are. But when one man pits his wilderness skills against a high-tech private army, when your best friend is often...

Jason would do anything to turn his misfit group of backyard wrestlers into a profitable Independent federation. The local police try to stop his extreme storylines but the real danger was the stunts that took place in the ring. Shattered elbows, facial burns and even a car accident present the group with expensive injuries but it's not enough to stop them. Will the Extreme Backyard Alliance make itself nationally known or will someone have to die in the ring before this madness has ended?

Amerasian nightclub hostess, Lana Reyes, and Mark Shaffer, an unemployed American living in Japan, follow a trail of danger and death as they compete with a "yakuza" criminal organization in the search for a horde of gold hidden in the Philippines by the Japanese Imperial Army during the final days of the Second World War.

The West is symbolized by America's romance with the cowboy rancher. We admire his independence, and reliance on his own skills and abilities. This historical novel depicts those settlers of the Wild West, whose calming influence on the calamities indigenous to that area, led to our modern day ranchers.

The adventures of the Jones family, who, in the late 1940's find themselves the owners of a horse ranch, in Wyoming's hard-bitten, arid and unforgiving ranch country, and how they cope with the problems and the joys of operating a ranch, is the gist of this book.

Their success is based...

Journey into the life of a renegade American who decided to defect to the most reclusive and oppressive nation in modern history: North Korea. An American idealist defects to North Korea in the 1970's only to discover the true horrors of this Stalinist state. What happens next would shock even those familiar with authoritarian regimes.

The author, an American Foreign Service worker in china, meets a man by the name of "David." David entrusts the author with his diary and makes the author promise him that the diary will be shown to the world as "evidence of what North Korea is really like."...

To believe in your country you must first believe in yourself.

Rod Logan is an architect who is constantly tormented by his past. After returning from Southeast Asia, flashbacks of horrific events during his time as a Navy SEAL contribute to, but are not the sole source of, his inner turmoil. Desperately seeking to put his troubled past behind him, Rod embarks on a business trip to San Francisco.

Once in California, Rod comes face-to-face with the one woman able to turn him to jelly-his ex-wife Lena. His head whirls at the thought of being hurt again by the woman who wounded him so badly in the past, while simultaneously trying to resolve his inner...

"September 29, 1991"--Roy Ogilvie walks out of a Fresno bank to his waiting getaway car with nearly $1 million. By the end of the day, his stolen airplane has crashed into the side of a mountain in the remote Sierra Nevada Mountains. Searchers find the wreckage, but not Roy, or any trace of the stolen money.

"September 28, 2003"--Nathan Rubideau knows where the searchers went wrong. With his present life in shambles, he sees the million-dollar treasure as his ticket to a new life. Only his inexperience in the wilderness has the potential to spoil his plan.

"As he gazed, satisfied, out...

To all her friends and acquaintances Leah Falcon is a handsome intelligent woman making a brilliant career as a lawyer. She is on the fast track to success. Her love life with Mike Breton is deeply satisfying.

But even her intimate friends are unaware of a hidden side, a second personality. Whenever she encounters someone using his or her position or power to abuse another person, she is compelled to help the underdog. To achieve this she will use any means available, even murder.

When an assignment from George Athens, one of America's richest men, takes her on a perilous journey from...

Searching for the elusive criminals who left her famous father comatose after a bomb blast, cultural arts historian and quasi-archeologist, Amanda Oliver stumbles into a world of thugs, tomb robbers, obsessed archeologists and greedy collectors seeking a priceless Etruscan sarcophagus.

"Putty Face's footsteps crunched on the gravel behind me. His erratic breathing, panting like a thirsty animal, paralyzed me. I opened my mouth to protest but no sound came. In a split second, the pressure of his hands on my back told his intentions. He shoved hard.

I pitched forward and the ground under...

""At the time when I saw two suns in the sky, I received a warning about two waves that would bring destruction to this place where I have left this warning.""

In the year AD 1054, a wise man from the Chaco Society scratched an ominous warning in rock art. More than a thousand years later, twenty-six-year-old tribal archaeologist Jon Two-Bears and professor Pamela Parker team up on a dig in the west end of the Grand Canyon. To their surprise, they uncover what appears to be an ancient warning. It predicts there will be a huge landslide in the narrows of Lake Mead that will send a...

The elusive Sivon Callous, nicknamed "The Dark Man," is known around the world as an evil monster. As rumors of his cruelty and strength circulate, it is no secret that Sivon is looked upon as a hated man--and as a mistake of nature.

Callous is convinced that he must merge the established religions of the world into one organized following. Considering himself a modern messiah, he begins a worldwide empire with the goal of monopolizing every industry, but soon becomes bored with his growing legacy. Callous is used to satisfying his every whim--even if it means murdering wealthy aristocrats...

The Green Berets always win......

In the late 1950's and early 1960's the ultimate training in fighting and self defense methods were the Green Berets. When Matt Wilson was stationed in Okinawa he discovered Karate and found it to be the perfect compliment to his military training.

One summer, Matt returns to the USA to visit a friend in Alabama. When the KKK discovers Matt, a Catholic visitor, in their town they decide to get rid of him. Unfortunately for them, the local KKK chapter has no idea who they have decided to cross. As the Klan unleashes a series of crimes, including murder,...

In WWII, U.S. naval forces discover compelling evidence that the Japanese are planning an attack on the Panama Canal. American O.S.S. agents Rick Reitan and Kelly Huni ally with a Nazi leader of guerilla forces in Panama in attempt to foil the powerful Japanese onslaught.

The excitement builds as the treachery of the Japanese plan unfolds. Witness the passion and betrayal as the defenders go from city streets to the darkest jungle to keep their pact to preserve the pathway between the seas at all costs.

Learn how we can educate Americans to be the pioneers that built this country. Live in a school that you wish had been available when you were younger. Fight a war to get a country back for a prince.

I want to state that I have lived one of the most bizarre, wildest, dangerous and tragic life any human being could have ever lived. I have been stabbed and shot before, damn near beaten to death by people with baseball bats, and being Catholic received my last rites two times.

In my life I made a lot of big money, blew a lot of big money, did a lot of gambling, drank a lot of alcohol, did a lot of drugs, and from becoming a normal sex addict, I became a hardcore sadist and masochist sex addict.

And again I want to state that I have lived one of the most bizarre, wildest, dangerous and tragic life any human being could have ever lived. I have been stabbed and shot before, damn near beaten to death by people with baseball bats, and being Catholic received my last rites two times.

In my life I made a lot of big money, blew a lot of big money, did a lot of gambling, drank a lot of alcohol, did a lot of drugs, and from becoming a normal sex addict, I became a hardcore sadist and masochist sex addict.

The Golf Courses of Lawsonia

The Links

Opened for play in May, 1930, the Links course remains unique to date. Designed by William Langford, the course is arranged in the Scottish golf links tradition. Elevated greens, unusually severe bunkers, and open rolling terrain still create great difficulty. According to legend, a boxcar is buried beneath the seventh green providing its extraordinary elevation.
Year after year, decade after decade, the Links layout has essentially reserved a spot on lists of the nation's top 100 public courses in national golf publications.

The...