Bøger af Gordon Miller

GOLD AND SALVATION is a 63,332-word noirish crime novel. It's a tale of murder, love and greed in the border cities of Windsor and Detroit, then down through the States in a 1940 Ford coupe all the way to Juarez, Mexico. The year is 1952 and it's tough finding an honest job with all the boys back from the war. But Jimmy Delaney figures he's stepped out on Easy Street. He's stolen $60,000 in gold bars-the score of a lifetime. Now all he has to do is haul ass down to Mexico and lay on the beach with Clover Spence: a Mètis woman and the love of his life. Clover is a smart P.I. who's been following the straight and narrow-until she meets Jimmy. What he's done to deserve a dame as fine as Clover he cannot imagine, especially when Easy Street turns into Mean Street. Jimmy's partner is murdered, mobsters want his gold, and the odds of a happy ending start looking mighty slim.

"In Western myths and imagination, the Pacific is the home of soft, warm, gentle trade winds, idyllic island lagoons and waving palms--the exotic earthly paradise of escapists, adventurers and romantics. Until James Cook showed otherwise, eighteenth-century Europeans also believed this ocean to contain a great southern continent of untold riches and beauty. The islands of the South Pacific can indeed be enchanting, their charm often exceeding expectations, but as European mariners realized when they first arrived here in the sixteenth century, the Pacific Ocean is also a region of ferocious tropical cyclones, treacherous, reef-littered atolls, wearying doldrums and mind-numbing distances. This book is maritime artist and historian Gordon Miller's tribute to the humble little ships that first ventured across the great Pacific, and the brave sailors that manned them. It is a brief, selective and condensed story of the charting, exploitation and occupation of the Pacific Ocean, mostly in small, wooden ships, with only wind and human muscle for power. These maritime pioneers united North and South America, Australia, New Zealand, the entire Pacific Ocean, all the coasts that surround it, and all the islands within. Even confined to the last four centuries of oceangoing sail, this is a large and complex story--a story brought to life by Miller's carefully researched text and masterfully rendered maritime paintings."--