The Siege of Macindaw: Book Six (Ranger's Apprentice)

The Siege of Macindaw: Book Six (Ranger's Apprentice) Review

The kingdom is in danger. Renegade knight Sir Keren has succeeded in overtaking Castle Macindaw and is now conspiring with the Scotti. The fate of Araluen rests in the hands of two young adventurers: the Ranger Will and his warrior friend, Horace. Yet for Will, the stakes are even higher. For inside the castle, someone he loves is being held hostage. And now the time has come for this onetime apprentice to grow up.

Cal English Texas Ranger

Cal English Texas Ranger Review

At age sixteen he had been a drifter every since that deadly shootout at an Abilene, Texas saloon. The shooting left his stepfather who he thought of as his Pa dead. Four assassins killed by his hand with two wounded from his deadly swiftness with the forty-four. Unaware that he would not be hunted by the law he hastily left the town on his stepfather’s horse never to return.
His name is Cal English whom some call ‘The Death Dealer’. He is six feet-two-inches tall, with a lean sinuous body, dark black hair and brown eyes. Most young women thought of him as dangerous first and handsome second. However, in his lifetime he never had the luxury to indulge himself in the opposite sex. The only extent of time he was ever around a woman near his age that he thought was attractive and wished for a different life was the one short year he spent with the Jesus Brito’s family and his beautiful daughter Alheli. No one knew who Cal was so he had managed a few short blissful months that passed ever so fast before he was recognized. After a shootout in the local saloon that left his identifier dead he left the Britos and headed south.
Cal, like a rattlesnake was viciously fast an a natural with the side draw of the pearl-handled forty four he carried holstered on his left side with the handle pointed out toward his right hand. He’d used it successfully much too often. His swiftness with the pistol was what brought him to a point in his life that Major Johns B. Jones of The Texas Rangers found him at Round Rock, Texas and offered him a new way of life. After the life he’d led Major Jones made him and offer he could not refuse.
Cal remembered the day he met Major Jones and if not for that day he would still be a gunslinger drifting from one place to another belonging to no one and no one giving a damn to what happened to him until finally someone faster with a gun would end his wandering. You might say Major Jones would be his salvation or the originator of his demise. Cal wasn’t sure yet which it would be. But, on the day he met him his life changed. He hired Cal on the spot to become a Texas Ranger and to help him and his rangers bring Cherokee Bob with his band of rustlers along the Nueces Strip to justice.
Cal along with Pony Deal and Red Jack Sloan did just that resulting in a shootout that left Cherokee Bob and three of his chieftain’s dead.
Fifteen dead men and eight years have passed swiftly since the time Cal English, ‘The Death Dealer’, left Abilene and now the year is Tuesday June 3, 1879. It was only the day before that he received orders from Major Jones Commander of the Frontier Battalion of the Texas Rangers of his new assignment.
Cal was to go to Palo Duro Canyon a few miles from Canyon Texas. There he was to ride into the Canyon and meet up with Lance Arrister the overseer and part owner of the LA Ranch. He would inform Cal on what was happening to the wholesale slaughter of the remaining Buffalo in that area since the Indian wars had ended a few years before. Cal’s mission was to do whatever he could to bring a closure to the killing. If he needed outside help he was to contact Major Jones at once. Cal didn’t figure he’d need no help.

One Ranger Limited Edition (Bridwell Texas History)

One Ranger Limited Edition (Bridwell Texas History) Review

No Texas Ranger memoir has captured the public's imagination like Joaquin Jackson's One Ranger (coauthored with David Marion Wilkinson) and One Ranger Returns (coauthored with James L. Haley). Readers thrilled to Jackson's stories of catching criminals and keeping the peace across a wide swath of the Texas-Mexico border--and made these books instant classics of Texas history.

Responding to a demand for a special collectors' edition, the University of Texas Press is pleased to issue this two-volume limited edition of One Ranger and One Ranger Returns. The volumes are handsomely bound in red quarterbinding with photographically illustrated boards, and each volume is signed by Joaquin Jackson on a special limitation page. The slipcase features an image of Jackson's personal Texas Ranger badge stamped in silver.

Five hundred numbered copies of the One Ranger Limited Edition will be issued.

Wall Street Ranger: The Complete Saga

Wall Street Ranger: The Complete Saga Review

On the day he reports for boot camp, Sterling Rynes and his family win the lottery. Follow him as he becomes a U.S. Army Ranger and performs special ops missions throughout the world while at the same time building a financial empire which spans from Hollywood to Wall Street.

This 170,000-word epic saga depicts the world as it was during the economic boom of the late 90s and the inevitable chaos that followed the events of 9/11. This novel will call to mind the enthralling series of W.E.B. Griffin in its attention to detail and military reverence.

Edited volume containing all three books of the Wall Street Ranger trilogy.

Ranger's Law: A Lone Star Saga (Texas Rangers)

Ranger's Law: A Lone Star Saga (Texas Rangers) Review

Ranger's Law brings together the fourth, fifth, and sixth of Elmer Kelton's novels on the formative years of the Texas Rangers. Kelton's young heroes, Rusty Shannon, and one-time Comanche captive, Andy Pickard, fight Indians, outlaws, feuding ranchers, smugglers, and all manner of lawbreakers while trying to make lives for themselves in the tumult of post-Civil War Texas.  

 

In Ranger's Trail it is 1874 and retired Texas Ranger Rusty Shannon is urged to rejoin the force to assist in protecting settlers from Indian raids and outlaw bands. After the girl he loves dies, Rusty goes on a vengeance trail, determined to find and kill the man who has ruined his life. But the trail Rusty is following may lead him to an innocent man.

Texas Vendetta takes the young ranger Andy Pickard into the midst of a hate-filled and bloody post-Civil War feud between two Texas families. Pickard, who survived a childhood as a Comanche captive called "Badger Boy," also becomes involved with the young son of an outlaw, a boy who has been "adopted" by the rangers at their San Saba River camp, earning his way as a cook's helper. The boy's father, now released from prison, comes to take his son back, and into a life on the run.

In Jericho's Road, Andy Pickard is assigned to the Texas-Mexico border and finds an ominous notice on the edge of a great tract of ranch land above the Rio Grande: "This is Jericho's Road. Take the Other." The sign signifies Jericho Jackson's land and Jackson is at war with a similarly ruthless cattle baron on the Mexican side of the river, Guadalupe Chavez. The two rustle each others' cattle, raiding and killing on both sides of the border, heading for a bloody showdown -- with the Texas Rangers standing between them.

Texas Ranger, Runaway Heiress (Harlequin Historical)

Texas Ranger, Runaway Heiress (Harlequin Historical) Review

She prefers guns to gowns--and riding the land to dancing at balls. So heiress Gabrielle Price heads across Texas's most dangerous territory to break her unwanted society engagement. Only, her biggest problem isn't outlaws and killers. It's a rugged, relentless Texas Ranger....

With a killer to catch, Hudson Stone has better things to do than escort his commander's spoiled, socialite daughter. But his fiery charge is as irresistible as she is off-limits, and to protect her he'll risk his reputation, his life--and his heart.

Lone Star Justice: The First Century of the Texas Rangers

Lone Star Justice: The First Century of the Texas Rangers Review

"A splendid, indeed brilliant new work by an outstanding historian of the American West." —Howard Lamar,  author of The New Encyclopedia of the American West, Sterling Professor Emeritus of History at Yale University

"A thorough job...a fine book." —Larry McMurtry

Rangers in Combat: A Legacy of Valor

Rangers in Combat: A Legacy of Valor Review

For more than 200 years, U.S. Army Rangers have fought suicidal combat missions against overwhelming odds-earning their unrivaled reputation as the world's premier close-combat warriors. In

Rangers in Combat

, Lieutenant Colonel J. D. Lock vividly brings to life the horrific battles and the heroic exploits of a special breed of men for whom "valor, honor, and country" mean more than life itself.

Take a stand with Robert Rogers and his outnumbered Rangers during the French and Indian War. Ride with Mosby on the Soughton Raid in the Civil War. In World War II, spearhead Patton's invasion of Sicily beside the legendary William O. Darby, suicidally climb the cliffs of Pointe-du-Hoc with James Earl Rudder, or storm "bloody Omaha" with Max Schneider. Stand outnumbered deep in North Korea while defending Hill 205 against overwhelming hordes of Communist Chinese. And high atop a mountain in Afghanistan, fight your way out of a savage al Qaeda terrorist ambush.

From the snowy forests of Upstate New York and the swamps of South Carolina, to the humid streets of Mogadishu and the snowy mountain peaks of Afghanistan, read accounts of and lessons learned from some of the most courageous, daring, and vicious ground combat in the annals of U.S. military history. Enter the combat zone with elite warriors who have helped to change the course of history.

A Texas Ranger's Christmas (Harlequin American Romance)

A Texas Ranger's Christmas (Harlequin American Romance) Review

Life can get complicated for a single father working undercover. No one knows that better than Caige Dawson, currently posing as an employee of the Texas Forest Service. He's there to investigate a fellow forester with a missing husband, and to determine whether she's a suspect.

Five years ago, Blaire Farley's world imploded. But ever since she met Caige and his sweet, lovable eight-year-old son—the survivor of a tragic accident—she's ready to start reclaiming her life. And the first order of business is giving Josh the best Christmas any little boy ever had.

Blaire may be a person of interest, but Caige believes in her innocence. His code of honor prevents him from getting too close until he can come clean about his identity. But he needs Blaire's help to solve the case. He only hopes it will give her the closure she needs—and the future all three of them deserve.

Power Rangers Samurai: Friend or Enemy?

Power Rangers Samurai: Friend or Enemy? Review

An action-packed storybook based on the hit new show!

In this action-packed storybook based on a TV episode, an evil Nighlok uses mind control to force Kevin, the Blue Ranger, to fight against his fellow Rangers. Luckily Jayden, the Red Ranger, figures out a way to reverse the spell before it's too late!