Kirjahaku
Etsi kirjoja tekijän nimen, kirjan nimen tai ISBN:n perusteella.
1000 tulosta hakusanalla James Reasoner
The narrative of Chancellorsville begins in Mississippi and the situation on the western front. Before reaching Vicksburg, Cory Brannon stumbles into a campsite where all is not well and briefly encounters a cautious Confederate patrol. A veteran of the battles of Forts Henry and Donelson and Shiloh, but not a soldier in the Confederate army, h continues to search for Lucille Farrell, the daughter of his late employer. When he finds her, he also discovers that he may have a role to play in supplying the South with the food, weapons, and ammunition being brought in through Texas by blockade-runners. The path, however, is strewn with renegades and outlaws, and on the horizon there may be a rival for Lucille’s affections.Meanwhile, Cory’s brothers, Will and Mac, enjoy a brief visit with the family members still in Culpeper. Will is greatly relieved that his mother, Abigail, who had banished him from the farm in the weeks before the war, now welcomes him with open arms. Brother Titus’s marriage to Polly Ebersole comes as a surprise to the two brothers in gray, but their presence stirs a sense of obligation and duty in the hotheaded Titus. Shortly after the two return to their units—Will to the Shenandoah with Jackson and Mac with Stuart near Richmond—the Confederate cause claims another Brannon, this one a gifted rifleman.In December 1862 a new Union commander launches another campaign to claim the Southern capital, and Ambrose Burnside brings the Federal army to Fredericksburg. With him marches the conscience-driven Nathan Hatcher. When the battle breaks loose, Will and Mac are on the right side of the Confederate line, and Titus is on the left. After the terrible bloodletting of the Federal defeat, news comes that Titus has been lost. The brothers carry the information back to Culpeper, where the aloof Polly surprisingly grieves over the loss of Titus, her husband. She reaches out to the Brannon family and finds a comforting response from the people she has tried to keep at arm’s length.In early 1863 a fitful calm pervades the Virginia front until yet another Union commander is named. Joe Hooker leads his army into the wooded wilderness of the Rappahannock again and confidently stakes his fortunes to an encounter with Robert E. Lee near the roadside inn at Chancellorsville. As the battle rushes toward them, Will and Mac witness the boldest move a field commander can make and the greatest loss the Confederacy can struggle to bear.Chancellorsville is the fourth book in a series of historical novels spanning the Civil War.
More than 100,000 Copies Sold in the Civil War Battle SeriesFollowing the defeat of Confederate forces at Chattanooga in November 1863, the battered Rebel army retreats to winter quarters at Dalton, Georgia. The following May, a large Union army led by Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman leaves Chattanooga and northern Georgia camps and marches south to Atlanta and ultimately arrives at the coastal city of Savannah, laying waste to the territory through which it passes. If Sherman is successful, Georgia will be divided and Confederate supply lines will be disrupted even more than they already are.Cory Brannon, who is bitter over the failure of the Confederate army at Chattanooga, takes part in a series of battles as the Army of Tennessee retreats slowly toward Atlanta during May and early June. By the end of August, Atlanta is lost and the Confederate retreat continues.Meanwhile, the Brannon family farm in Culpeper County, Virginia, is now behind enemy lines. Titus is fighting in the Shenandoah Valley with Mosby's Rangers, the great Ebersole plantation house at Mountain Laurel is in ruins, and Henry has been removed as sheriff of Culpeper County. To everyone's surprise, Cordelia is courted by one of the Union officers. She hates the Yankees but is unable to hate this Yankee in particular, much to her dismay. When Henry kills a Union deserter who attacks Cordelia, he flees to the Confederate lines in Tennessee and arrives in time to participate in Gen. John Bell Hood's disastrous campaign.At the same time, Cory is trapped in Savannah, surrounded by Sherman's marauding hordes. The Union army lays siege to the city, much as it had at Vicksburg. When Gen. William Hardee realizes that defending the city is hopeless, he abandons Savannah and heads toward the Carolinas, hoping for the chance to fight another day in another place. Sherman's March to the Sea is now complete, and despair grips the Confederacy.Fractured and defeated at every turn, the nation asks itself how much longer it can continue to fight.
As the ten-volume saga concludes, the multiple strands of the story are woven toward their resolution. As the war careens toward its inevitable end, members of the Brannon family are involved in every theater of the, at and spread across the South. For a time, Mac and Titus Fight in the Shenandoah Valley with Fitzhugh Lee's cavalry and Mosby's Rangers. In the Carolinas Cory fights against William T. Sherman, and in Alabama Henry rides with Nathan Bedford Forrest. In Culpeper, the Brannon family farm lies behind Union lines. Despite her mother's admonitions, Cordelia remains intrigued by the attentions of a Yankee officer, whose only failing is the belief lie cannot let the war end without experiencing combat. Nathan Hatcher, now a so-called Galvanized Yankee, wears Union blue in the Dakota Territory. There he fights to survive both rugged winter weather and the fierce tribes who seek to repel the invaders from The region. With the coming of spring in 1865, the war reaches its climax in Virginia, North Carolina, and Alabama. Mac is not far from the McLean house when Robert E . Lee meets with U. S. Grant. Cory is at hand, too, when Joseph E. Johnston parleys with Sherman. Titus, however, finds himself enmeshed in a complicated scheme regarding one of the darkest plots of the war. Finally, among the war's last victims is the Brannon farm itself. As carpetbaggers move into the South, this prime real estate is too good to leave in the hands of staunch Confederates. The Brannons must either fight or flee, and they have only so much fight left in them. The unsettled West holds more promise than the scarred and wrecked land of northern Virginia. Cory already has one foot in Texas, and theothers are not far behind. Before departing, however, a mother must visit the grave of her firstborn at the lonely crossroads of Cold Harbor."
Although Stonewall Jackson was dead, Confederate morale was never higher. The victory at Chancellorsville had come against overwhelming odds, and the Southerners savored the sight of the Union army in retreat. In less than a year's time, the Federals had been pushed back from the outskirts of Richmond and now virtually out of Virginia.Thus begins Gettysburg, the newest addition to The Civil War Battle Series, the Brannon family saga that has been praised as "robust, detail-rich and well-paced...equal parts pathos and accuracy" (Publishers Weekly) and "fraught with passion, tension, and tenderness" (Booklist).Will and Mac, the two eldest Brannon sons, are in the ranks of the Stonewall Brigade and Jeb Stuart's cavalry. A short bivouac allows them to visit the family farm for some rest and recuperation from the fighting. Almost as soon as Will rejoins his company, Jackson's former corps marches up the Shenandoah Valley, sweeping the Union troops out of Winchester. A natural route to the North lies open, and Lee's army heads in that direction.The eventual clash known as the battle of Gettysburg occupies the rest of the book. Will, who is involved from the first day, is kept in the thick of the combat around Culp's Hill and the right side of the Union line. Mac arrives on the evening of the second day, and he sees action with the Southern cavalry at Hanover. Both are swallowed up in the melee of the fighting, and neither emerges unscathed.Bruised and bleeding, the Confederate army stumbles back into Virginia, leaving a fourth of their number behind on the Pennsylvania ground. News of the defeat and the huge number of casualties spreads quickly. Like thousands of families across the South, the Brannon clan in Culpeper County anxiously awaits word of the fates of two sons.
In this seventh volume of the ten-volume Civil War Battle Series, the action spans the area from Pennsylvania and Virginia to Georgia, Mississippi, and Illinois.The seven members of the Brannon clan of Culpeper County, Virginia, experience a wide range of the many hardships of war. The Southern setbacks of July 1863 have fallen hard on the Brannons, for two sons were with Lee in Pennsylvania and one was at Vicksburg. They still mourn the loss another, Titus, presumed dead but actually interned in a Northern prison camp for seven months.Mac Brannon, in Stuart's cavalry, helps to protect the Army of Northern Virginia as it withdraws to Virginia. Of special concern to him are the ambulance wagons, one of which carries his wounded brother, Will. In Vicksburg, Cory Brannon recuperates from an illness, and as his health returns he looks for ways to escape the Union occupation and join Nathan Bedford Forrest's cavalry. In the Yankee prison camp outside of Chicago, Titus is determined to escape and make his way home. He does not yet know the price of his freedom. Cory and his comrades connect with Forrest just in time for the action at Chickamauga.Although the battle goes well for the Confederates, Forrest and his commander, Braxton Bragg, have a falling out. Circumstances dictate that Cory remain with Braxton Bragg in the Confederate camps that encircle Chattanooga, but when Bragg decides to outwait the Union army trapped before him, the scene is set for the arrival of a new Federal commander—U.S. Grant.
In this eighth volume of the ten-volume Civil War Battle Series, the action returns to northern Virginia and Culpeper County. The long absent Titus Brannon returns home on Christmas Day, 1863, just over a year since his disappearance during the battle of Fredericksburg. As much as his family is startled to learn that he is alive, he is surprised to find that his wife, Polly, is now married to his brother Henry. And she is pregnant.Unwilling to accept Polly and Henry's marriage, Titus insists that Polly is still his wife, and a judge agrees. He refuses to divorce her, and later Polly's body is found at her father's plantation. The evidence points to Titus, and he is arrested and jailed.As spring approaches, Will Brannon recuperates from his Gettysburg wound and returns to his regiment. In the meantime, a new commander leads the Union army into northern Virginia—U.S. Grant. To block Grant's march on Richmond, Robert E. Lee attacks. Grant, however, does not retreat after this surprise engagement but marches on. The two armies clash again and again, maneuvering ever closer to the Rebel capital.Will throws himself into the battles with abandon. At last his pain ends at the portentously named crossroads, Cold Harbor.After Titus's innocence is proven, he joins the partisan rangers of John S. Mosby. This guerrilla-style warfare suits his nature, and the rangers so effectively harass the Federals in the rich farmland of the Shenandoah that Grant dispatches a special force to squash Mosby. This unit adopts a policy of total war in the valley so as to undercut Mosby's support.Titus vows vengeance on the Yankees for this wanton destruction, but even he knows that there is little chance that the tide will be stemmed. Both the Confederacy and the Brannons have suffered much in the year 1864. Now even the hotheaded Titus begins to wonder if the nation and his family will survive into 1865.
More than 100,000 Copies Sold in the Civil War Battle SeriesFollowing the defeat of Confederate forces at Chattanooga in November 1863, the battered Rebel army retreats to winter quarters at Dalton, Georgia. The following May, a large Union army led by Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman leaves Chattanooga and northern Georgia camps and marches south to Atlanta and ultimately arrives at the coastal city of Savannah, laying waste to the territory through which it passes. If Sherman is successful, Georgia will be divided and Confederate supply lines will be disrupted even more than they already are.Cory Brannon, who is bitter over the failure of the Confederate army at Chattanooga, takes part in a series of battles as the Army of Tennessee retreats slowly toward Atlanta during May and early June. By the end of August, Atlanta is lost and the Confederate retreat continues.Meanwhile, the Brannon family farm in Culpeper County, Virginia, is now behind enemy lines. Titus is fighting in the Shenandoah Valley with Mosby's Rangers, the great Ebersole plantation house at Mountain Laurel is in ruins, and Henry has been removed as sheriff of Culpeper County. To everyone's surprise, Cordelia is courted by one of the Union officers. She hates the Yankees but is unable to hate this Yankee in particular, much to her dismay. When Henry kills a Union deserter who attacks Cordelia, he flees to the Confederate lines in Tennessee and arrives in time to participate in Gen. John Bell Hood's disastrous campaign.At the same time, Cory is trapped in Savannah, surrounded by Sherman's marauding hordes. The Union army lays siege to the city, much as it had at Vicksburg. When Gen. William Hardee realizes that defending the city is hopeless, he abandons Savannah and heads toward the Carolinas, hoping for the chance to fight another day in another place. Sherman's March to the Sea is now complete, and despair grips the Confederacy.Fractured and defeated at every turn, the nation asks itself how much longer it can continue to fight.
As the ten-volume saga concludes, the multiple strands of the story are woven toward their resolution. As the war careens toward its inevitable end, members of the Brannon family are involved in every theater of the war and spread across the South. For a time, Mac and Titus Fight in the Shenandoah Valley with Fitzhugh Lee's cavalry and Mosby's Rangers. In the Carolinas Cory fights against William T. Sherman, and in Alabama Henry rides with Nathan Bedford Forrest. In Culpeper, the Brannon family farm lies behind Union lines. Despite her mother's admonitions, Cordelia remains intrigued by the attentions of a Yankee officer, whose only failing is the belief lie cannot let the war end without experiencing combat. Nathan Hatcher, now a so-called Galvanized Yankee, wears Union blue in the Dakota Territory. There he fights to survive both rugged winter weather and the fierce tribes who seek to repel the invaders from The region. With the coming of spring in 1865, the war reaches its climax in Virginia, North Carolina, and Alabama. Mac is not far from the McLean house when Robert E . Lee meets with U. S. Grant. Cory is at hand, too, when Joseph E. Johnston parleys with Sherman. Titus, however, finds himself enmeshed in a complicated scheme regarding one of the darkest plots of the war. Finally, among the war's last victims is the Brannon farm itself. As carpetbaggers move into the South, this prime real estate is too good to leave in the hands of staunch Confederates. The Brannons must either fight or flee, and they have only so much fight left in them. The unsettled West holds more promise than the scarred and wrecked land of northern Virginia. Cory already has one foot in Texas, and the others are not far behind. Before departing, however, a mother must visit the grave of her firstborn at the lonely crossroads of Cold Harbor.
Best-selling author and legendary storyteller James Reasoner introduces a man haunted by the past and fighting to make a place for himself in the violent world of the Old West. G.W. Braddock was raised to be a Texas Ranger and never wanted anything else. But then he's stripped of his badge through no fault of his own and a corrupt system turns the vicious killer Tull Coleman loose on the people of the Lone Star State. Now, Braddock has to decide if he's going to follow the law-or carry out the job he was born to do, even if it means becoming an outlaw himself Outlaw Ranger, Volume One includes: Outlaw Ranger and Hangman's Knot.
New York Times bestselling author James Reasoner returns to the Old West in this gritty, compelling action-packed saga A savage ambush - twenty men slaughtered in a brutal massacre and a fortune in gold stolen - was a crime big enough and bold enough to bring the Outlaw Ranger to the wide-open settlement of Cemetery Butte. No atrocity prepared G.W. Braddock for the evil that awaited him, stretching bloody hands out of the past. From one showdown to the next, Braddock finds himself with an unexpected ally: an ancient Indian who claims to be the last war chief of the Comanche. This time around, their pursuit will lead them to a bloody showdown on the Texas plains, with the lives of innocents hanging in the balance Outlaw Ranger, Volume 2 includes: Blood and Gold and The Last War Chief.
New York Times bestselling author James Reasoner returns with another gritty, fast-moving tale of the Outlaw Ranger.Lured by the Mexican government's bounty for Native American scalps, a ruthless gang led by serial killer John Grafton roams both sides of the Tex-Mex border, killing hapless travelers and raiding isolated villages, slaying anyone-Native, Hispanic, even dark-haired whites-whose scalps may be translated into cash across the Rio Grande. G.W. Braddock, at loose ends between paying jobs at the moment, teams with a survivor of one massacre to track the killers down and bring them to rough justice, dodging federales and rogue tribesmen in the process.From one adventure to the next, Braddock soon becomes involved in the Chamizal dispute between Mexico and the U.S.. Unclaimed land on the border led to a 385-acre Cordova Island, described as a "haven of crime" and smuggling which remained lawless through the years of U.S. Prohibition, and now Braddock is needed to avenge a crime. Outlaw Ranger, Volume 4 includes: Scalp Hunters and Six-Gun Island.
From best-selling author and legendary storyteller James Reasoner comes another action-packed, fast-paced saga of life in the Old West. A band of killers swoop down on a Mexican village, slaughtering the men and carrying off the women as prisoners. In Texas, a train is held up, American soldiers are murdered, and a valuable shipment of rifles is stolen.G.W. Braddock knows there's a connection between these two bloody incidents, but to discover the truth and keep the border country from erupting in chaos and violence, he'll have to risk his life more than once in a maze of double-crosses and danger Stripped of his authority by corrupt politicians, G.W. Braddock still carries the badge of a Texas Ranger-with a bullet hole in the center to show that he'll go wherever he has to and do whatever it takes to bring justice to the Lone Star State Outlaw Ranger, Volume 3 includes: Gun Devils of the Rio Grande and Black Gold.
Gritty, compelling, and packed with action, the saga of the Outlaw Ranger rages forward - from bestselling and award-winning author James Reasoner.A mixed-race outlaw gang terrorizes the border territory between Brownsville, Texas, and Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico, committing brutal robberies, rapes, and abductions of women and girls for sale as slaves to oligarchs in their homeland and points farther south.After one of his friends from the Rangers dies pursuing them, G.W. Braddock swears vengeance and embarks on a one-man crusade to end their depredations, rescuing their hostages if possible, while caught unwillingly between government and rebel forces in the early days of the long-running Mexican Revolution."Reasoner hits the bullseye " - Wayne D. Dundee, author of the Lone McGantry series.
Desperation grows during the winter of 1775-76, in the early days of the Revolutionary War. Inside besieged Boston, patriot secret agent Elliot Markham faces new danger from an unexpected source as the city begins to starve around him and buildings are torn down for firewood. Elliot's cousin Daniel Reed joins a patriot expedition to Fort Ticonderoga to retrieve the artillery that may make a difference in the war, but getting those cannon back to Boston through an icy, snow-covered wilderness is a deadly challenge--especially when there's a traitor in the patriots' midst. On the frontier, Daniel's brother Quincy Reed and the legendary woodsman Murdoch Buchanan have found a new home in the settlements along the Ohio River, but an unexpected development is about to change everything for them. And in England, Daniel's lover Roxanne Darragh is imprisoned by a British spymaster with more than one reason to want to see her dead CANNON'S CALL is the fifth book in the exciting Patriots series by New York Times bestselling author James Reasoner. It's packed with action, rich in historical details, and filled with unforgettable characters. The early days of a struggling new nation come to vivid life in CANNON'S CALL
In Virginia, brothers Daniel and Quincy Reed are reunited, along with their families, just in time for the two young men and their friend, frontiersman Murdoch Buchanan, to set off on a desperate mission involving Thomas Jefferson that could change the course of a new nation's destiny, while enemies from the past threaten the life and happiness of beautiful Roxanne Darragh. At the same time, in New York, patriot secret agent Elliot Markham sets out to unravel a Tory plot against George Washington that could prove equally disastrous to the colonies' attempt to win freedom. Everything converges on Philadelphia in July of 1776, as the fate of the boldest venture in human history hangs in the balance The critically acclaimed Patriots series comes to a rousing conclusion in STARS AND STRIPES, as master storyteller James Reasoner spins a compelling tale of action, romance, and historical intrigue. The early days of the Revolutionary War come alive in this richly detailed saga of perilous, momentous times and the people who lived through them.
"80-luvun parhaita yksityisetsivädekkareita. Tiivis, runollinen tyyli, sympaattisen epätäydellinen päähenkilö." (Tapani Bagge)Texasilainen yksityisetsivä Cody palkataan yksinkertaiseen hommaan: pitää löytää ja tuoda takaisin kotiin kadonnut teini-ikäinen tyttö. Tapaus ei kuitenkaan ole niin yksinkertainen kuin miltä se näyttää, ja ruumiita alkaa kasaantua. Kirjassa tulevat tutuksi niin Fort Worthin hyvinvoiva eliitti kuin laitakaupunkien gangsteritkin. James Reasonerin esikoisromaani Texasin tuuli ilmestyi alun perin vuonna 1980 ja on myöhemmin noussut kulttiteokseksi. Monet pitävät sitä yhtenä kaikkien aikojen parhaista yksityisetsiväromaaneista, jossa juoni, henkilökuvaukset ja paikan tuntu ovat tasapainossa. Teos kuvaa henkilöitään lämmöllä ja piirtää taitavaa kuvaa myös Fort Worthin country & western -kulttuurista. Teoksen on suomentanut kovaksikeitetyn amerikkalaisen dekkarin tuntija Juri Nummelin.
Wolf Creek: The Dead of Winter
James Reasoner; Cheryl Pierson; Clay More
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2014
nidottu