Bøger af James Reasoner

It started out as a silly idea to bring buyers back to Abilene. Wrangle some buffalo, put them on a train, and ship them to Chicago so folks back east could see the massive, shaggy beasts with their own eyes. The concept seemed sound. What could go wrong?But for John Creed, agent for the famed Faraday Security Service, it was anything but simple. First, Hank Miles was willing to do whatever was required to prevent the plan from succeeding. Hiding in the shadows was a silent partner. Creed's biggest threat, however, came from the man in black-an assassin who took pleasure in his work and would not stop coming until the job was complete.Before the Buffalo Train reached the end of the line, guns would roar, men would die, and Chicago would get a taste of what the "Wild West" was really like.

The race is on to span the continent with steel rails-and someone is willing to do anything to stop it, even if it means spilling rivers of innocent blood!Matthew Faraday is president of the Faraday Security Service, a detective agency specializing in work for the ever-expanding railroad empires. Hired to find out who is stirring up the Sioux and sabotaging the Kansas Pacific line as it builds westward, Faraday sends tough young agent Daniel Britten to the railhead, where he finds himself embroiled with surveyors, track layers, buffalo hunters, and a pair of beautiful young women. But there's a killer stalking the railhead as well, and not only the fate of the railroad but also Britten's very life depends on him uncovering the truth.An epic Western adventure full of historical sweep and gun-blazing action

Following the defeat of Confederate forces at Chattanooga in November 1863, the battered Rebel army retreats to winter quarters at Dalton, Georgia. 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 in this ninth volume.

In this eighth volume of the ten-part Civil War Battle Series, the action returns to northern Virginia and Culpeper County. The long absent Titus Brannon returns home on Christmas Day, 1863, and he is surprised to find that his wife, Polly, is now married to his brother Henry.

This historical novel features the Brannon family of Virginia. Young Cory Brannon is working to keep the town supplied by wagon train and railroad, but the pressures of the Civil War force him to leave his family and fiancee to become a cavalry rider and spy.

Manassas, by James Reasoner, is the first novel in The Civil War Battles series based on the Brannon family of Culpeper County, Virginia. This initial volume describes the mood in the South prior to the outbreak of hostilities and follows one of the Brannon sons into the army and onto the scene of the first major battle of the war.