Bøger af F. M. Parker

Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant,comrades in arms in the Mexican-American War 1846-1848. President Polk, desiring to expand the United States to the Pacific Ocean, orders General Winfield Scott to invade Mexico at Veracruz and march inland and capture Mexico City. Mexico controlled much of what is now the southwestern part of the United States and California.Scott arrives at Veracruz with 100 ships crowded with 9,000 soldiers and the tools of war, cannon, muskets and cavalry mounts. Among the soldiers are Lieutenant Ulysses S. Grant and Captain Robert E. Lee. Grant, 24 years old, is a hardened combat veteran from fighting with General Taylor in northern Mexico. Lee, 40 years old, is untested in battle. Both men desire grade and glory and it is during war that these can be won if a man acted bravely.General Scott lands his army upon the hostile Mexican shore. After a heavy bombardment of Veracruz, the Americans capture the city. Scott waits for the reinforcements that President Polk had promised. When they do not arrive and his men begin to die from yellow fever, Scott severs his link with the States and his supply base at Veracruz and marches his small army into the mountains. He must capture Mexico City lying in the center of the nation of seven million inhabitants. He will lead his men to victory or death. General Santa Anna is waiting with an army of 30,000 soldiers to annihilate the small force of invading Americans.

Best selling author of COLDIRON TWO LIGHTNING GUNS-RIPPING APART AN OUTLAW EMPIRE OF SLAVERY, OPIUM AND MURDER They were two guns. One young. One old. Both deadly. Tom Gallatin was young in everything but the ways of violence. He had learned early to kill to survive in a land where the slow died fast. Luke Coldiron was a frontier legend, a name that struck sparks of fear among men who lived or died by their guns. Now Tom Gallatin and Luke Coldiron had joined forces against the most vicious gang that ever turned a wide-open town into a kingdom of crime. It was two guns against the most cold-blooded outlaw octopus that ever traded in human flesh for gold. Now it was a question of whose nerve and bullets would run out first.... "SAN FRANCISCO WHEN LAW WAS THE SIX-GUN...FAST AND VIOLENT ACTION!"-Library Journal

HE WAS HAIR-TRIGGERED FOR TROUBLE IN A LAND WHERE YOU LIVED OR DIED BY YOUR GUNS JUDGE AND EXECUTIONER-HARD MAN IN A HARD LAND In a trackless territory where a man had to be as hard as cold-forged steel to survive, Luke Coldiron was harder than any man who tried to stand in his path. His strength, nerve, and guns had carved him a sprawling horse-breeding ranch out of the wilderness, and made him master of all he surveyed. But now from south of the border came a Mexican leading a private army of hand-picked killers to loot Coldiron's kingdom. And out of Coldiron's past came a beautiful woman with a blood score to settle. It had been a long time since Coldiron had to kill to live-but some things a man doesn't forget...