Bøger af Caleb Pirtle

Hershel Kimbrell served as head basketball coach at McMurry University for thirty-one years, winning 448 games and being named to the NAIA Hall of Fame. His teams were mostly too small, too short, and too slow, perhaps, but they were the giant slayers, defeating top-ranked programs for one reason. Coach Kimbrell taught his players they were better than they were, and they believed him.Never Afraid, Never A Doubt is the biography of a man who believed in building winners. And it had little to do with the scoreboard. It is the story of a man as seen through the eyes of his players. He told them: "When every muscle and joint and ligament in your body is telling you it's time to quit and you refuse to quit, you'll dig down deep into a place you didn't know you had, and you'll find out you can accomplish more than you ever thought possible. At McMurry, we take the word "quit" out of the dictionary."As Chris Beard, head basketball coach at Texas Tech University said, "If the talent on the floor was close, Coach Kimbrell would beat you every time.

Lonely Night to Die is a collection of three noir thriller novellas in a single volume. The stories follow the exploits of Roland Sand, the Quiet Assassin, who has broken away from a rogue agency within the CIA. His missions are those no one else wants to tackle. The reason is simple. Sand is expendable. If he doesn't return, he won't be missed. His name is erased. It's as though he never existed.Lovely Night to Die: Why should she fall in love with a man she defended in court? Does she know he's a CIA assassin? Does she know he has orders to kill the President? Does she know she will die if he fails? What else doesn't she know?Sand can't afford to fail. He doesn't want to lose the girl he loves.But can he save the President and her both?He has a second to make up his mind."Great characters, superb pacing, intriguing storytelling. Recommended for fans of solid action thrillers everywhere. - Review by Enrico GraffitiRainy Night to Die: Sand is sent to Ukraine to smuggle out a beautiful lounge jazz singer who, for years, has been smuggling Russian secrets back to MI-6's home office in Great Britain. Her contact in London has been compromised. He is found floating in the Thames River. Sand must extricate Pauline Bellerose before the Russians trace the stolen secrets back to her and place a noose around her neck.He has twenty-four hours to find the singer and remove her to safety. If she is caught, she dies.It's a frantic race to a waiting ship off the coast of Ukraine.Death waits around every bend in the road."With numerous clever twists and turns to the story, it will keep you reading until the unexpected surprise at the end." -Review by Jackie Taylor ZortmanLonely Night to Die: Sand awakens on a park bench in town he's never seen before.How did he get there?He doesn't know.Who is the beautiful girl on the bench beside him?He doesn't know.But she's quite dead, and he has no idea who killed her.Or why?But he'll find out if it's the last thing he ever does.It might well be.

Ambrose Lincoln is one of the government's prized operatives, a trained assassin, a man whose past is continually erased by mind control tactics and shock treatments. His days have no meaning. He no longer fears death. As far as he is concerned, a man without a memory is a man who's already dead. From Germany come rumors of a mad man threatening to rule Europe and maybe the world. On the Night of Broken Glass, his brown shirts and storm troopers move into Baden-Baden and begin their methodical termination of the Jews. In America, so far away, the violence is nothing more than a protest over a Jewish boy who murdered a German diplomat because the Third Reich had removed and maybe killed his family. It was simply a case of vandalism that got out of hand. No one is concerned, and the American government wants to keep it that way. No one in Washington wants to go to war with Hitler, and President Roosevelt continues to preach neutrality. But word is leaked that one Jewish photographer took pictures of the rampage of brutality and murder that night. He was killed, but his daughter is in hiding with the film. Ambrose Lincoln is dispatched to Baden-Baden with one charge. Find the film and bring it back. It will tell the truth. It will uncover the lies. The photographs will reveal to the world the sadistic threat that exists for everyone if Hitler's mad march isn't stopped. His mission is to uncover the deadly secrets that his own government doesn't want him to find, secrets that can change history.

In the mid 1970s, a band of men with little expertise in the oilfield defied the hard ground of Giddings, Texas, to search for oil in a barren, poverty-stricken land that was littered with dry holes, shattered hopes, and empty pockets. Max Williams, the former hot-shot basketball player at SMU, and Irv Deal had been in high-dollar real estate until the real estate market collapsed. Both were facing the wrath of hard times. Pat Holloway was a lawyer who operated drilling funds but had never tested the ill-fated Austin Chalk. He drilled the most and earned the most but lost it all in the shady confines of a Dallas courtroom. Jimmy Luecke was a highway patrolman who stopped Holloway for speeding one night and promised not to take him to jail if the lawyer/oilman would agree to drill on his family's land. Bill Shuford was right out of college and more interested in finding the next beer joint than his next job. Jim Dobos was a constable who used his badge to lease land, struck it rich, and was found with a gunshot in his head. Was it murder or suicide? Clayton Williams was the only big-time oilman in the bunch, but in the beginning, he made the mistake of employing the wrong geologist. Only those who used the geologic genius of Ray Holifield found oil. Holifield had cracked the code of the chalk. Gamble in the Devil's Chalk is the true story of their fights, their feuds, their trials, their tribulations, and their triumphs as they discovered the second largest oilfield in the United States during the past half century. Once they came, Giddings would never be the same again.