Bandit Roads

Author : Richard Grant
Publisher : Abacus
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780748111749

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Bandit Roads by Richard Grant Pdf

There are many ways to die in the Sierra Madre, a notorious nine-hundred-mile mountain range in northern Mexico where AK-47s are fetish objects, the law is almost non-existent and power lies in the hands of brutal drug mafias. Thousands of tons of opium and marijuana are produced there every year. Richard Grant thought it would be a good idea to travel the length of the Sierra Madre and write a book about it. He was warned before he left that he would be killed. But driven by what he calls 'an unfortunate fascination' for this mysterious region, Grant sets off anyway. In a remarkable piece of investigative writing, he evokes a sinister, surreal landscape of lonely mesas, canyons sometimes deeper than the Grand Canyon, hostile villages and an outlaw culture where homicide is the most common cause of death and grandmothers sell cocaine. Finally his luck runs out and he finds himself fleeing for his life, pursued by men who would murder a stranger in their territory 'to please the trigger finger'.

Author : Donald Miller
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2007-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780595448630

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Bandit's Mountain by Donald Miller Pdf

Bandit's Mountain takes place in the wilderness of Montana, after an earthquake levels a prison and frees twelve convicts. The convicts embark on a killing rampage in their quest to Canada and freedom. Ben Harper is a man who has the world by its tail. He is a man of honor, a man who keeps his promises. As he crosses the Montana state line on his way home on military leave, he reflects back on his troubled youth and on a stranger he attempted to rob. This stranger would change his life and become the man Ben called his father. Tired and hungry, Ben stops at motel and meets Wanda Jenkins, a lonely waitress. This chance meeting soon develops into a passionate love affair. Ben continues on his way home, promising to return for Wanda. After suffering car trouble, Ben finally reaches his destination only to find his parents murdered and his world shattered. A bloody note, found in his father's lifeless hand, sends Ben off on a trail of vigilante justice to a place called Bandit's Mountain.

Author : Philip W. Blood
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
Page : 761 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781597974455

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Hitler's Bandit Hunters by Philip W. Blood Pdf

In August 1942, Hitler directed all German state institutions to assist Heinrich Himmler, the chief of the SS and the German police, in eradicating armed resistance in the newly occupied territories of Eastern Europe and Russia. The directive for "combating banditry" (Bandenbekämpfung), became the third component of the Nazi regime's three-part strategy for German national security, with genocide (Endlösung der Judenfrage, or "the Final Solution of the Jewish Question") and slave labor (Erfassung, or "Registration of Persons to Hard Labor") being the better-known others. An original and thought-provoking work grounded in extensive research in German archives, Hitler's Bandit Hunters focuses on this counterinsurgency campaign, the anvil of Hitler's crusade for empire. Bandenbekämpfung portrayed insurgents as political and racial bandits, criminalized to a greater degree than enemies of the state; moreover, violence against them was not constrained by the prevailing laws of warfare. Philip Blood explains how German forces embraced the Bandenbekämpfung doctrine, demonstrating the equal culpability of both the SS police forces and the "heroic" Waffen-SS combat arm and shattering the contrived postwar distinctions between them. He challenges the traditional view of Himmler as an armchair general and bureaucrat, exposing him as the driving force behind one of the most successful security campaigns in history, and delves into the contentious issue of the complicity of ordinary German police, soldiers, and citizens, as well as the citizens of occupied territories, in these state-sponsored manhunts. This book provokes new debates on the Nazi terrorization of Europe, the blind acquiescence of many, and the courageous resistance of the few.

Author : Jamie Brehmer
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-07
Category : Pets
ISBN : 9781496902498

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Bandit's Run by Jamie Brehmer Pdf

Bandit’s Run is a true story of a lost dog. Bandit was about eighteen months old when he ran through an open gate. His owner’s knack for imagining where he would turn up next was uncanny. “Growing up, we always watched Disney shows and Lassie,” says Jamie Brehmer, author. “Bandit resembled the Lassie show in many ways, and not because he is a sheltie and Lassie a collie. It was the scenes in which the ranger and Lassie would be so close, yet neither knew the other was right around the corner,” says Brehmer. The book follows Bandit on a journey much like The Incredible Journey. While Bandit’s skittish personality kept him from coming back home right away, his resilience taught his family that he was definitely meant to be theirs.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1936
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015019924078

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Special Publications by Anonim Pdf

Author : U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey,Hugh Chester Mitchell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1936
Category : Geodesy
ISBN : UCSD:31822009761883

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First and Second Order Triangulation in California (1927 Datum) by U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey,Hugh Chester Mitchell Pdf

Author : Laura James
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 1402760698

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The Love Pirate and the Bandit's Son by Laura James Pdf

A beautiful and ruthless lady from Ohio, Zeo Zoe Wilkins made her living as a gold digger, marrying a series of wealthy older men. She hired attorney Jesse James, Jr. to provide legal muscle to extract money from an ex-husband. On the night of March 15, 1924, she was brutally murdered in her Kansas City home. Deftly mixing historical conjecture with forensic fact, the author follows the opportunistic, eccentric, and troubled lives of Wilkins and James, while making a convincing case that their mutual avarice led to a murderous confrontation that bloody night.

Author : Kathryn Atwood
Publisher : Jove Books
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0515077437

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The Lawless Heart by Kathryn Atwood Pdf

Author : Khari Akpan
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781257747658

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BANDIT'S ROOST: Guns Out by Khari Akpan Pdf

Author : Chris Frazer
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803220317

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Bandit Nation by Chris Frazer Pdf

A look at the bandit in history and current legend, showing how those memories remain alive and well in Mexican society.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1950
Category : Criminal investigation
ISBN : MSU:31293007962776

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FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin by Anonim Pdf

Author : John Rollin Ridge
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781678155698

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The Life and Adventures of Joaquín Murieta: The Celebrated California Bandit by John Rollin Ridge Pdf

Not only was this the first book printed in California, but it was also the first published book to be written by a Native America. The story of Joaquín Murieta would later be adapted as The Mask of Zorro. Certainly, aspects of the California Bandit would used later as the foundation of comic book vigilantes, such as Batman

Author : Billy Jaynes Chandler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015014168135

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The Bandit King by Billy Jaynes Chandler Pdf

Author : Andrew D. Mayes
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 67 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9798385209590

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Roads of Hurt and Hope by Andrew D. Mayes Pdf

Become an intrepid pilgrim on an adventure of faith as you walk five biblical roads that have played such an influential role in our spiritual history. These ancient paths, their stones full of biblical memories, evoke the travels of our ancestors in the faith and Jesus himself: key Scriptures become a guidebook for an unforgettable journey. But also listen to contemporary voices: a wide range of short interviews immerses the reader in present-day realities. As readers tread these roads through mountain, valley, desert, coastland, and city, they will realize their potential to challenge and transform their perceptions--even the very course of their faith. They may never be the same again as they follow in the footsteps of Abraham, Jesus, and courageous pilgrims and hear the cries of today's residents. Roads are about enabling movement. This odyssey of the soul will help readers along in their faith journey, open up new vistas and perspectives, and stimulate a movement in the soul as insights are gained and challenges embraced.

Author : Andy Hillstrand,Johnathan Hillstrand,Malcolm MacPherson
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2009-03-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780345504128

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Time Bandit by Andy Hillstrand,Johnathan Hillstrand,Malcolm MacPherson Pdf

Every Alaskan king crab season, brothers Andy and Johnathan Hillstrand risk their lives and seek their fortunes upon the treacherous waters of the Bering Sea. Sons of a hard-bitten, highly successful fisherman, and born with brine in their blood, the Hillstrand boys couldn’t imagine a life without a swaying deck underfoot and a harvest of mighty king crabs waiting to be pulled from the ocean floor. In pursuit of their daily catch, the brothers brave ice floes and heaving waves sixty feet high, the perils of thousand-pound steel traps thrown about by the punishing wind, and the constant menace of the open, hungry water—epitomized in the chorus of a haunting sailors’ sing-along: “Many brave hearts are asleep in the deep, so beware, beware.” By turns raucous and reflective, exhilarating and anguished, enthralling, suspenseful, and wise, Time Bandit chronicles a larger-than-life love affair as old as civilization itself—a love affair between striving, willful man and inscrutable, enduring nature.