REAL MEN HEROES FOR REAL MEN READERS
Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett is, in a way, the antithesis of many modern literary protagonists. He's happily married with a growing family of daughters. He does not arrive with excess emotional baggage, or a dark past that haunts him. He works hard and tries, sincerely, to "do the right thing." He doesn't talk much. He's human, and real, which means he sometimes screws up. As a game warden, Joe gets involved in just about every major event or situation that involves the outdoors and the rough edges of the rural new west.
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Meet Jack Reacher, 6'5", 220-250 lbs., 50" chest. An ex-military brat who grew up all over the world, Reacher graduated from West Point and performed 13 years of Army service before mustering out with the rank of Major in 1997. Since then he has traveled around the country with no luggage, no driver's license, no Federal benefits and no long term goals or destination. Wherever he goes he finds trouble which he deals with in his own inimitable way.
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The adventures of Italian police detective Nic Costa take place in Rome and Venice where even the murder that happened yesterday has a way of becoming entwined with centuries of Italian culture and history. If you like complexity with your mystery, and engaging foreign settings, Nic Costa is your man.
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"Kurt Wallander is a senior police officer at Ystad, a small town in the wind-lashed Swedish province of Skåne. His life is a shambles. His wife has left him, his daughter refuses to speak to him, even his aging father barely tolerates him. He works tirelessly, eats badly and drinks the night away in a lonely, neglected flat."--(Random House) But he is a damn good detective. Coming soon to PBS' Masterpiece Mystery, actor Kenneth Branagh in the role of Kurt Wallander.
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Brilliant and exasperating by turns, Detective Alan Banks inhabits a Yorkshire landscape colored in shades of gray where good and evil seldom conform to their comfortingly ordinary colors of black and white. Banks is consumed by a job that threatens to send him over the edge with its conflicting demands and its proximity to violent death and all that is worst in people.
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Soft spoken, southern gentleman, Oxford educated FBI Special Agent Aloysius Pendergast blends his investigative talents with his vast knowledge of the supernatural. His cool demeanor serves him well whether uncovering the truth of a 19th century killer or the "coincidence" of murders that take place in The Museum of Natural History after a long closed tomb is reopened. He battles wits with his brilliant but diabolical brother, Diogenes, who frames him for a crime he did not commit, recovers rare and dangerous artifacts and solves a 150 year old cold case murder.
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Join the daring and debonair Dirk Pitt, researcher for the National Underwater Marine Agency (NUMA) as he searches for a submarine buried in the Sahara with valuable historical artifacts, investigates an un-detonated atomic bomb aboard a sunken B-29, or desperately hunts for the source of a deadly poison spreading through the waters of Alaska. And these are just a few of his worldwide adventures!
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- Full Name: Gabriel Allon
- Employer: Office of Intelligence and Special Tasks, Israel
- Area of Expertise: Intelligence collection, special investigations, kidnap and capture, interrogation, assassination
- Weapon of Choice: Beretta
- Cover: Art Restorer, Italian Old Master paintings
- First Known Op: Wrath of God, 1972-1975; personally liquidated six terrorists responsible for Munich Olympics massacre
Join Gabriel Allon as he travels the world from the Middle East to the Vatican, hunting down international terrorists.
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What makes Ian Rankin's Rebus tales so appealing is their distinctly unappealing main protagonist. John Rebus is cynical, antisocial and full of barely repressed anger, a cop who harbors animosities and makes terrible blunders out of impatience. Yet he is also an attentive observer and a relentless investigator who eventually manages to restore order to the frequent disorder that rules Edinburgh's medieval-flavored streets.
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Take a walk on the wild side in Thailand with Sonchai Jitpleecheep, a cop whose mother is a Thai prostitute and whose father was an American soldier during the Vietnam war. This crime story trilogy by John Burdett is soon to be a quartet.
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William Bernhardt's Ben Kincaid is NOT your typical lawyer. Ben is relatively young, idealistic, and something of a welcome change from most of the legal "hot shots" making so much of an impact on the stands these days. He often has a lost quality that will appeal to many, and is often rescued by his office staff who keep him on his toes. There are cliff-hanging moments, but the stories are also told with a light humor which makes them an enjoyable read.
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