Elmore Leonard - Bandits Frank Matisse had specialized in stealing from hotel rooms but was trying hard to go straight. He meets Dick Nichols in New Orleans and discovers that he was raising money for the Contras, although his daughter, Lucy, doesn't want the money to arrive in Nicaragua. From the author of "Glitz".
In the year 1856, I, Hermann Schultz, a German by birth, received a prize allowing me to study botany in Greece. In Athens, I boarded at the home of a man named Christodoulos. Every day, I went into the country to study plants, but I dared not go as far as I would have liked. Athens was surrounded by bandits. I am not a coward, as you will soon see, but I value my life. It is a gift from my parents and for their sakes I wish to preserve it as long as possible.
Jack Fletcher faces his toughest challenge yet. After a snowstorm forces him to take shelter, Jack comes across a village in need of protection from raiding mountain bandits. Torn between moving on or helping, Jack is persuaded to stay and fight the villagers' cause. But Jack is the first and only samurai to do so. Now he must enlist other warriors to the villagers' aid before the bandits return to steal their harvest. No easy task when the reward is so little and he is a foreigner. If only he had his friends to call on...Using the Ring of Fire, can Jack overpower the bandits and win?
While playing with a model train, Tubb wishes he could be a conductor on a real train and do all the work by himself. He gets his wish - but when some train bandits jump aboard, will he still be able to handle everything on his own?
Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11526.37 | Fiction literature | 13 November 2010
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Dillinger
In Jack Higgins's suspenseful imagining, Dillinger flees to Mexico, where his attempts at finding freedom launch the fugitive into the clutches of men much more dangerous than the federal agents on his trail. This dramatic account of Dillinger's final days brings him face-to-face with bloodthirsty bandits and corrupt police officers, breathing vivid life into the story of America’s most fascinating outlaw.
