Hard Road

Author : J. B. Turner
Publisher : Thomas & Mercer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-18
Category : Assassins
ISBN : 1503936562

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Hard Road by J. B. Turner Pdf

Jon Reznick is a "ghost" a black-ops specialist who takes his orders from shadowy handlers, and his salary from the US government. Still mourning the loss of his beloved wife on 9/11, he's dispatched to carry out a high-level hit. Reznick knows only that it must look like suicide. It's textbook. But the target is not the man Reznick expected. The whole setup is wrong. In an instant the operation is compromised, and Reznick is on the run with the man he was sent to kill. A man wanted by the FBI, and by a mysterious terrorist organization hell-bent on bringing the United States to its knees. FBI Assistant Director Martha Meyerstein is determined to track him down, and to intercept whatever it is Reznick was sent to do. When Reznick's young daughter becomes a pawn in the game, he has to use more than his military training to stay one step ahead of those responsible. Meanwhile, he is the only person who knows the true extent of the threat to national security--and has the stealth and determination to stop it. Revised edition: This edition of Hard Road includes editorial revisions.

Author : Peter Edwards
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-06
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780345816092

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Hard Road by Peter Edwards Pdf

The founding father of Canadian bikers shares the story of his fascinating life. You could call Bernie Guindon the Sonny Barger of Canadian bikers (but not to his face). The founder of Satan's Choice, Guindon led what was in the 1960s the second-largest biker club in the world (after the Hells Angels, which Bernie would join briefly in the early 2000s) to national prominence and international infamy. His life wasn't all bikes and crime. He was also a medalist in boxing for Canada at the Pan Am Games. That tension between the very rough life he was born into and the possibility for success in the straight world (and how aspirations in each fed his success in the other) layer Guindon's story, one of the great untold stories in biker history. Friends from the biker world and Guindon's family have given extensive interviews for Hard Road, including his son, Harley, whose own depictions of prison time are some of the most searing you'll ever read.

Author : Keith Heyer Meldahl
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226923291

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Hard Road West by Keith Heyer Meldahl Pdf

The dramatic journeys of the 19th century Gold Rush come to life in this geologist’s tour of the American West and the events that shaped the land. In 1848, news of the discovery of gold in California triggered an enormous wave of emigration toward the Pacific. The dramatic terrain these settlers crossed is so familiar to us now that it is hard to imagine how frightening—even godforsaken—its sheer rock faces and barren deserts once seemed to them. Hard Road West brings their perspective vividly to life, weaving together the epic overland journey of the covered wagon trains and the compelling story of the landscape they encountered. Taking readers along the 2,000-mile California Trail, Keith Meldahl uses settler’s diaries and letters—as well as his own experiences on the trail—to reveal how the geology and geography of the West shaped our nation’s westward expansion. He guides us through a landscape of sawtooth mountains, following the meager streams that served as lifelines through an arid land, all the way to California itself, where colliding tectonic plates created breathtaking scenery and planted the gold that lured travelers west in the first place. “Alternates seamlessly between vivid accounts of the 19th-century journey and lucid explanations of the geological events that shaped the landscape traveled.”—Library Journal

Author : William W. Johnstone,J.A. Johnstone
Publisher : Pinnacle Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780786048731

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Hard Road to Vengeance by William W. Johnstone,J.A. Johnstone Pdf

Legendary national bestselling Western authors William W. Johnstone and J.A. Johnstone return with a blistering second installment in the new Stoneface Finnegan series. JOHNSTONE COUNTRY. WHERE PEACE COMES FROM THE BARREL OF A GUN. Whether serving justice as a Pinkerton agent or serving drinks as a saloonkeeper, Stoneface Finnegan always lines up his shots to kill . . . GONE TO DEADWOOD The Pinkertons believe Rollie “Stoneface” Finnegan was the best agent to ever wear the badge. So does dewy-eyed Pinkerton hopeful and sleuth-in-training Tish Gray, who’s just arrived in Boar Gulch. As co-owner of Boar Gulch’s Last Drop Saloon, Stoneface is content slinging booze into guts instead of bullets. But when his partner Jubal “Pops” Tennyson needs help to rescue his daughter, Stoneface saddles up to take a hard ride into hell. Their destination is Deadwood, Dakota Territory, the notorious mining town and outlaw haven where folks can dig up a gold fortune or dig their own grave. Pops’ daughter is being held captive by the infamous Al Swearengen, owner of the Gem Theater, supplying whiskey, wagering, and women to the desperate, the destitute, and the dangerous.As naïve, young Tish goes undercover at the Gem to find Pops’ daughter, Stoneface and his partner are pinned down in the Black Hills by every trigger-happy gunslinger looking to collect the dead-or-alive bounty on Stoneface’s head . . . Live Free. Read Hard.

Author : Lee Martin
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780253053893

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Gone the Hard Road by Lee Martin Pdf

"Count your blessings," his mother told him, "Think of everything good in your life." Pulitzer Prize finalist Lee Martin has done it again. Building from his acclaimed first memoir, From Our House, which recounts the farming accident that cost his father both his hands, Gone the Hard Road is the story of Beulah Martin's endurance and sacrifice as a mother, and the gift of imagination she offered her son. Martin unfolds the world she created for him within their unsettled family life, from the first time she read to him in a doctor's office waiting room, to enrolling him in a children's book club, to the books she bought him in high school. Gone the Hard Road portrays Beulah's selflessness as the family moved around the Midwest, sometimes in the face of her husband's opposition, to show her son a different way of being. Rather than concentrate on the life his father threatened to destroy, as Martin's previous memoirs do, Gone the Hard Road offers the counternarrative of a loving mother and the creative life she made possible, in spite of the eventual cost to herself. A poignant, honest, and moving read, Gone the Hard Road will stay with anyone who has ever struggled to find their place in the world.

Author : Robert Kahn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 786 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1945091193

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The Hard Road of Dreams by Robert Kahn Pdf

Born under the influence of Nazi Germany, Robert Kahn's emotional journey plunges the reader through shifting shades of darkness and his eventual escape. This unusual and intriguing autobiography details a man's personal triumph while dealing with family, identity and traditions. His later contributions to the Department of Defense are startling in spite of his aversion to warfare. Written with honesty and determination - this autobiography contains no dramatization, only the rough edges of life.

Author : Thomas Saylor
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2008-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0873516818

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Long Hard Road by Thomas Saylor Pdf

Author : Glenn Goldsmith
Publisher : Random House Australia
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781740512619

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Hard Road by Glenn Goldsmith Pdf

"In January 1986, a curious advertisement appeared in the personal column of the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper: Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Stevie Wright, once lead singer of THE EASYBEATS, please contact Terry Hunter at the Bexley North Hotel . Within 48 hours, a weary and suspicious Stevie Wright appeared at the bar of the Bexley North Hotel, curious to find out who wanted to know, and what it was all about. The hotel publican, Terry Hunter, was a sixties music lover and wanted to promote a sixties night in his pub and thought Stevie Wright would be a great drawcard for his show. The Stevie Wright who answered the ad was a far cry from the international pop star of the 1960s and 70s. He arrived with scant belongings, no money and nursing a heroin addiction. No one at the time, least of all Stevie himself, would have predicted the events that would follow. Before the end ot the year, he would kick heroin, return to the stage touring Australia with his own 8- piece band and finally achieve the impossible- a reunion with the legendary Easybeats. This is a story of one of Australia's legendary music stars as told by himself and the people who have known him, worked with him

Author : Ron Hill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Runners (Sports)
ISBN : 0950788201

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The Long Hard Road by Ron Hill Pdf

Author : Barbara D'Amato
Publisher : Speaking Volumes
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781628152340

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Hard Road by Barbara D'Amato Pdf

AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR BARBARA D'AMATO TAKES CAT MARSALA ON A DANGEROUS ADVENTURE IN THE WORLD OF OZ... From Hard Road "Jeremy, do you remember in Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz, Dorothy had gone to California, and there was a big earthquake and Dorothy, and Jim the cab-horse, and the boy Jeb, all fell down a hole in the earth? And they had lots of adventures? And then finally they came to Oz." "Of course I remember!" "Well, this is a lot like that." "Some of their adventures were scary, Aunt Cat. The Mangaboos, the vegetable people, were going to plant them. And they were chased by invisible bears."

Author : Mary Jo Maynes
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2000-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807863275

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Taking the Hard Road by Mary Jo Maynes Pdf

Taking the Hard Road is an engaging history of growing up in working-class families in France and Germany during the Industrial Revolution. Based on a reading of ninety autobiographical accounts of childhood and adolescence, the book explores the far-reaching historical transformations associated with the emergence of modern industrial capitalism. According to Mary Jo Maynes, the aspects of private life revealed in these accounts played an important role in historical development by actively shaping the authors' social, political, and class identities. The stories told in these memoirs revolve around details of everyday life: schooling, parent-child relations, adolescent sexuality, early experiences in the workforce, and religious observances. Maynes uses demographics, family history, and literary analysis to place these details within the context of historical change. She also draws comparisons between French and German texts, men's and women's accounts, and narratives of social mobility and political militancy.

Author : Alan Featherstone
Publisher : Covenant Books, Inc.
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781685264352

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Hard Road to Redemption by Alan Featherstone Pdf

In this sequel to the author's breakthrough novel, One Hard Day, US Air Force Lieutenant Cutler Walker is moving to California, where he will train as a pilot in the KC-135, the air force's intercontinental air-refueling aircraft. Having just returned to flying duty following his five-month hospitalization and rehabilitation, Walker gladly put the horrendous accident in which he and two others suffered life-changing consequences in his rearview mirror. His sixteen-year adventure takes him all over the US, Europe, Asia, and the Pacific. Along the way he is reunited with Baylee Madison, an air force colleague and former classmate at the University of Virginia, and they become inseparable. He and Baylee develop a close friendship with a most unlikely couple, and Walker has a falling-out with a close friend, ending a twenty-year friendship. With Baylee at his side and the Lord guiding him, Walker takes it all in stride, approaching his life with a new look, a better attitude, and an inner drive that takes him on a wild ride.

Author : Bogdan Tukiendorf
Publisher : Tate Publishing
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781615661527

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The Long, Hard Road by Bogdan Tukiendorf Pdf

After Father left to catch the last train, I stood there looking in the direction of the train station until it was too dark to see anything. Afterwards, I went to my bed, lay down, and covered my face so my roommates could not see me cry. I was seventeen years old, almost a man, and a grown man didn't cry even if he felt so terribly alone. Growing up in Poland at the start of World War II, Bogdan Tukiendorf lived through the clash of German, Russian, and Polish armies, the German occupation, the separation of his family, and a difficult immigration to the U.S. "The Long, Hard Road" details his journey from a farm in Poland to inner-city Chicago. Saddled with a knee injury from an early age, Bogdan limped through childhood and visited makeshift wartime hospitals as his knee worsened. His health prevented him from migrating to the U.S. with his family, so at seventeen he was left alone in a strange German city. "The Long, Hard Road" shares Bogdan's experiences from the war, such as his family's cooperation with the Polish freedom fighters, tenuous friendship with the occupying German commander, the fear of neighbors betraying them, his life in the netherworld while waiting to immigrate, his voyage to a free land, and his struggle to succeed in a new country. This engrossing autobiography will capture your attention as you read firsthand the story of one who survived World War II.

Author : Stephen R. Crislip
Publisher : Author House
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2007-08-23
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781467093125

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Down to the Hard Road by Stephen R. Crislip Pdf

Almost Legal Humor is the way defense trial lawyer Stephen R. Crislip describes his book, Down to the Hard Road. Operating upon the premise that the most difficult lawyers (or people generally) are those born without humor, he reports from the road during a series of lawyer meetings over a specific period. Utilizing the no theme approach of the Seinfeld show and the reporting style of the late Pete McCarthy, who wrote a travel book entitled McCarthy’s Bar based upon McCarthy stopping at every bar in Ireland with his name on it, Crislip humorously wanders along a lovely string of meetings in glorious places with totally random descriptions of locales, people and the silliness of the times, as subjectively viewed by a big boned boy writing from tiny seats on small regional jets. The author contends his family’s residence in West Virginia for over 218 years gives him full and absolute standing to give his West Virginia viewpoint, including the standard West Virginia directions: “Go down to the hard road until you come to the four lane and follow it to the Robert C. Byrd Freeway”.... which one, you ask, since everything in West Virginia now bears this description. In the spirit of the adventures taken, the author vows to donate all proceeds over the production costs to a community charity so that everyone who buys or reads the book can feel good about themselves -- even if they lack the humor gene, and even if they pitch the book like a disposable camera.

Author : G Mitchell
Publisher : Robert Hale Ltd
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780719823695

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Hard Road to Holford by G Mitchell Pdf

The stagecoach run from Muddy Creek to Holford should have been an easy one. But since one of the passengers is being hunted by a Mexican revolutionary colonel who was swindled in an arms deal, things are unlikely to be that simple. - Forced to abandon their coach, the travellers must experience many dangers before they reach their destination - and even then their safety is by no means guaranteed.