Showing results for "Drifter" in Literature & Fiction

When a nameless drifter rides into Redemption Gulch, he expects nothing more than a meal and a quiet night. Instead, he finds a town ruled by fear —where power hides behind ledgers, violence masquerades as law, and silence is the price of survival. A wrongful arrest turns deadly. Graves surface where no one thought to look. Gunmen begin testing the streets, and the town’s marshal proves too weak to stop what’s coming. As the truth emerges, so does the man behind it —a ruthless enforcer who believes control is justice and order is something you take by force.

The Amazon rainforest holds a world-changing secret—a ship lost to time from another world. College student Will Kaufman unearthed the biggest archaeological discovery in human history… he just needs to find a way back to Earth to tell people about it. Four thousand years ago, a Federation bounty hunter Void ship crashed on a remote and primitive planet. There it remained until Will found it and accidentally reactivated it, launching him light-years away.

Once, Frank Morgan had a wife and a future on the land — until a rich man with a grudge drove him out of Colorado. Since then, Morgan's taken up the one skill that always came easy — gunfighting — and drifted to a mining town in the New Mexico Territory. But there's nothing easy about two vicious gangs descending on the town and threatening to wreak havoc. With his reputation preceding him, Morgan is elected to stand in the outlaws' way. 

The war is over, and Will Kaufman is finally back home. He brings with him the technological and medical wonders of the galaxy. When an alien corporate syndicate decides to set up operations on Mars, Earth begins to wonder if the gifts they've been brought are worth the cost of potential subjugation. Earth was spared a war against the Imperium… but it just might find itself at the center of a new conflict unless humanity's only Void Drifter can stop it.

The first explosive thriller featuring Peter Ash, a veteran who finds that the demons of war aren’t easily left behind... “Lots of characters get compared to my own Jack Reacher, but Petrie’s Peter Ash is the real deal.”—Lee Child Peter Ash came home from the wars in Iraq and...

Bianca: Pretty things distract me. But in my line of work, a distraction will get you caught - or in my case, blackmailed. But Connor Hayes isn't just furious with me. He's charming. And itching for payback. He doesn't just want my money, though. My hate. My beauty. My body. He requires it all as repayment. Right down to my empty soul. Hayes: Two wrongs don't make a right. Except when they are five-foot-seven and hotter than my exhaust pipe. So, I blackmailed her. It was either that or turn her in. I figured if anyone was going to put her in handcuffs, it was going to be me.

The Imperium grip is slipping, thanks to Will's unexpected ability as a Void Drifter. But in revealing his abilities, Will may have put his home planet, a backwater most of the galaxy didn't even know existed, on the frontlines. But Earth is not as defenseless as it seems. An enigmatic billionaire, aware of the true nature of the Imperium's galactic menace, has been secretly building a defensive fleet. Still more fleets have been secretly constructed in the far reaches of the galaxy.

In this triumphant bestseller, renowned novelist James A. Michener unfolds a powerful and poignant drama of disenchanted youth during the Vietnam era. Against exotic backdrops including Spain, Morocco, and Mozambique, he weaves together the heady dreams, shocking tribulations, and heartwarming...

Megan Abbott meets M.O. Walsh in Christine Lennon's compelling debut novel about a group of friends on the cusp of graduating from college when their lives are irrevocably changed by a brutal act of violence. Present Day… For two decades, Elizabeth has tried to escape the ghosts of her...

As a coalition of species and planets fights to unseat the Imperium, Will, the only human on the Coalition War Council, is put forward as an unlikely poster boy for galactic harmony. His unremarkable home world and its unimportant species—humans—have come to the aid of a greater galaxy they didn't even know existed. With each battle won, breaking the shackles of the Imperium seems not only possible but inevitable… until old grievances and simmering rivalries spring up among the Coalition.

Will Kaufman is the only Void Navigator the New Federation has left. Missions for the Phaelon's crew are practically unending. When rumors of a mysterious and elusive marauding army ravaging colony worlds prove to be true, Will is given a new mission: stop the marauders at all costs, or else Earth might be next. But these foes have a Navigator of their own, and finding them proves next to impossible.

Will is the galaxy's greatest Void Drifter, but a mystery as vast as the Void itself thrusts him into a high-stakes mission that will test his skills and courage like never before. The enigmatic Eddison is on a relentless quest to uncover a powerful ancient artifact. This artifact is hidden within the Hollow, a treacherous region of Void space filled with spatial anomalies and unknown threats.

When Ragland intervenes to save the life of a young girl captured by a pack of cannibals, he unwittingly sets in motion a chain of events that will bring the horde down upon his head.

When United Planets Alliance Captain Henry Wong and Ambassador Sylvia Todorovich attempted to bring peace to the Ra Sector, they turned to the Drifters for neutral ground. Instead, the nomadic spacers betrayed the summit and attempted to kill everyone there. With peace forged despite the Drifters’ betrayal, Henry and Sylvia take an elite squadron in pursuit of the Drifter Convoy. Their enemies have friends at every turn, neutral worlds who will give them shelter - and if the UPA breaches that neutrality, everything Henry and Sylvia have worked for could crash down in flames.

The day America fell, Zeek was just a high school kid 500 miles from home. Stranded in southern Utah when America collapses, Zeek sets out with his best friends, determined to survive and find a way home. Every night on the road is a test, keeping his injured teammates safe, dodging ruthless gangs, and holding on to hope that his family is still alive.

'Life isn't just the breathing part, dear. It's being here, with you.' Cate Christie is a drifter, moving restlessly through her carefree youth until tragedy strikes, and her life is changed forever. She flees the city, seeking refuge at her great-aunt Ida's farm in the wheatfields of Western...

Mirabelle Blackstone knows the man she’s meant to be with. Unfortunately, her father, the town’s pastor, has other plans. Determined no daughter of his will court with a gunslinger, he sets his sights on another beau—one with a plan of his own.

Wenzel und Killer sind Freunde seit Ewigkeiten und stehen mitten im Leben, Killer als PR-Chef einer großen Firma, Wenzel betreut die Social-Media-Kanäle eines TV- Senders. Doch alles ändert sich, als Vica in ihr Leben tritt: eine Frau in goldenem Kleid, meist begleitet von zwei treuen Adjutanten und einem riesigen Zottelhund. Mit jeder Begegnung ploppen neue Fragen auf: Woher weiß sie so viel über Wenzel und Killer? Wieso besitzt sie ein Exemplar des neuen Buchs von Drifter, einer ominösen Schriftstellerfigur, obwohl es überhaupt noch nicht auf dem Markt ist.

When the mutilated body of a young man is discovered on the side of the road near an abandoned house Sheriff Eric Miller is sent into an emotional tailspin. Lack of evidence and the nature of the crime, force the sheriff to call in a special K-9 unit. Fingers are immediately pointed to the only logical person who could have committed the crimes...the drifter.

The life and times of Jackson Slade a civil war survivor of the Army of the Confederacy and his very long and adventure filled life after the war, from small rancher to Indian scout to western Lawman to Soldier.