Bøger af Hal Reames

Late in the nineteenth century Robber Baron Jay Gould bragged he could "hire half the working class to kill the other half." Gould sought to control the ore shipments from Leadville, Colorado, bringing him into conflict with lawmen Bat Masterson and Ben Thompson, as well as the infamous Doc Holliday. In this work of historical fiction, characters who survived "The Great Divide," seek to end the Colorado Railroad War without a bloodbath in Pueblo.

This work of historical fiction begins in the year 1492 when a Jewish navigator, a Muslim soldier, and a Christian winemaker find themselves sharing a prison cell, each charged with a different crime: the Jew as commited heresy by teaching that planets revolve around the sun; Ferdinand and Isabella are expelling Muslims; and to protect his daughter, the Christian vintner has killed a monk, the Grand Inquisitor's squire. To escape the Spanish Inquisition all three accept assignment as crew on a risky search for a western route to the Orient aboard one of Christopher Columbus' ships. But the vintner jumps ship and begins a long trek to rejoin his wife and daughter. The Grand Inquisitor finds himself intrigued by the Navigator's thinking about astronomy and jerks awake one night with suspicions that the vinter may also have been infected by the curiosity and questioning of his Jewish cellmate. He decides to find out. Meanwhile, the non-Christians dare not return to Spain where the Muslim's religion and the Jew's doubts about all beliefs are fatal. Seeking a permanent home in Portugal for himself and his Muslim friend, the navigator manipulates King Joao to renogiate the line that divides the New World between Portugal and Spain. But their welcome in Portugal dies with King Joao, and they must find a home elsewhere, so they hatch a plan to arrange their own banishment to what is now Brazil where they encounter a new culture of belief.

An Alien scientist transports himself to earth electronically. His visits to nine receiver sites leave him convinced that Earth suffers from an insolvable problem, but one earthling may be able to help him with a problem on his own planet.

As the 2016 U.S. presidential election approached, the author interviewed more than a score of Texans who could not vote Republican. Most of the interviewees belonged to a group called Yeller Dawgs that had been meeting for almost forty years. These pages contain their views.