Bøger af Lew Osteen

The Apocalypse Cometh is set in a time when the world is ruled by an International Oligarchy of High-Tech Moguls and Malcolm Mabius, Satan incarnate, controlled them all.

THE JOSHUA TRAIL, the second book in The Joshua Trail Series, begins where SIX NOTCH ROAD left off. Eli Lynne is determined to end his quest for the elusive Jules Joshua despite risking the loss of his wife's love and the good life. With only rumors, tall tales and a string of back shot dead men to guide him, Eli heads to Mexico to see Jules dead and cut the last notch into his gun handle. Meanwhile, Stella begins plotting her revenge for being scorned. She knows she can hire a man to be killed for a bottle of good whiskey. She sets aside $10,000 to see Eli killed and have it done well." ... Eli Llynne had been right all along. Jules Joshua was not dead, he was in Mexico. Jules, as Eli had been, was befriended by the hard rock miners of Hornitos who thought they were rendering assistance to one of their own. Jules could talk mining lingo and they accepted him as a miner who had experienced a bad cave-in. Jules blamed the death of his brothers on "Mexican claim jumpers" and weaved a tall tale about how he had fought them off despite interference from Eli Llynne. Since Eli was unconscious, Jules story went unchallenged - until he robbed and shot the doctor who was attending him ..."" ... The horrors of the potato famine that had caused Stella's family to leave Ireland had permanently warped her soul. She had seen friends and relatives die of starvation and had vowed it would never happen to her. She had endured the terrible Atlantic "coffin ship" passage as a young woman and had known what it was like to huddle in the cold, damp darkness below the decks of the stinking overcrowded ship. She had walked among human excrement and wallowed in vomit. She had endured the vituperative scorn of those who despised her people.Stella had never known what is was like to be a child ..."" ... Jules did not take his eyes off of Maria for a second. He took his new Colt from his belt and lay it on the table in front of him. He pondered where he would place the shots that he would use to kill Juan and have her all to himself. A kill shot was to be last, after bullets tore flesh and broke bone to cries of agony. He shivered with pleasure as he thought of how he would take Maria without the slightest smile of consent. He wanted the spit of hatred to ooze on his cheek, feel her fire-red fingernails tearing at his flesh and have her screams echoing in his ears as he took her in his time and for as many times - as it pleased him ...

AN OLD FAMILIAR RAIN is a suspenseful murder mystery adventure that takes you on a thrilling train ride across Russia with as many double-crossings as there are railroad crossings and with a trip of 5,758 miles and 7 time zones there are a lot of both. It is also a steamy love triangle involving Anya, the Russian double agent who is practiced at telling lies and seducing men, Peggy McKeever an All-American home-coming queen and housewife and Deke Matthews, a respected businessman with a dark past. Anya is an alluring and deadly Russian spy who seduced and abandoned Deke and for whom he carries a smoldering torch. She is so well-trained at seducing men and faking love she is never sure if she can love. Peggy, who appears to be a dutiful wife and mother, is stronger and more resourceful than anyone imagines. During the trip she must find a way to keep her husband away from Anya not only to save her marriage, but to save his life. Deke is living an idyllic suburban life with a loving family and heading up the Matthews Chemical Corporation. He does not know that ( to quote Rod McKuen's poignant lyrics) "The world he used to know" will bring an "Old Familiar Rain" into his comfortable life. Out of the blue, he finds out his best friend David Symond, who has been in Russia for twenty years, has become an enemy of the Russian Government. and his execution is imminent So begins Deke and his wife Peggy's train journey into Russia under the guise of dedicating a new plant built in Novisibrisk. Once aboard the fabled Trans-Siberian Express, people begin dying under strange circumstances and Deke soon discovers information that confirms it is urgent he get David out of Russia within 48 hours. In order to do so, he must enlist the aid of Anya Ulanovich, the beautiful Russian spy, and secret love of his life, who has already betrayed him once. A love and betrayal that he had hoped to keep secret from his wife, Peggy. Can he risk Anya's betrayal again when it would mean the death of his best friend, destruction of his marriage and perhaps loss of his own life? For 21 Days from the broad plains of Moscow to the Ural mountains, and beyond, murder, mystery and mayhem travels along with the them on The Trans-Siberian Express with every click of the iron wheels on the steel track, with Russian Double Agents, Masai Assassins, and CIA contract killers behind every train compartment door, Deke races against time to save himself - and all he holds dear. Essentially a successful businessman used to making deals and enjoying the good life, Deke is thrown into the murky morass of spy vs. spy where no one can be trusted and no deal is secure. Emotionally conflicted and a rank amateur in a world of professional killers, Deke must learn quickly how to play the game and play it well - or lose everything. Lew Osteen is an award winning writer known for painstaking research into historically based novels and those based on true events.

SIX NOTCH ROAD the first book in The Joshua Trail Trilogy, is an epic western in the tradition of The Outlaw Josie Wales and The Searchers. It is the story of a peaceable Welsh Coal Miner of immense size, but easy disposition who pursues Six Brothers who murdered his wife from the Coal Mines of Pennsylvania to the Gold mines of California. Over the course of this pursuit, he learns how to be a deadly gunfighter, but a new love clouds his reason just when he needs the killer instinct the most."... Eli checked The Colt Peacemaker he kept in a cross-over holster. He hefted it to assure himself it was ready if need be. Once an awkward feeling to hold, it was now a source of much comfort to him. Now, it belonged in his hands and he had total confidence in his ability to use it. Where a pick axe handle had once felt comfortable in his hand, but was a source of drudgery and pain - the feel of a gun handle was now a source of power and joy. Then, his thumb felt the handle of his Peacemaker absent the one notch he wanted most of all ..."

Eli has one notch to go!A Season of Reckoning is the final chapter of the epic western saga The Joshua Trail Trilogy. The Joshua Trail Trilogy which began with Six Notch Road and continued with The Joshua Trail now reaches its long awaited and exciting conclusion.After ten long years of pursuing the hated Joshua brothers from the coal mines of Pennsylvania to the gold mines of California, south of the border deep into the badlands of Mexico and back again, at long last, Eli has his fated showdown with Jules Joshua the most evil man who ever lived.Eli has lost more than he can ever gain by killing Jules, but he is determined to carve that last notch into his gun handle.Jules intends to deny him that pleasure.There is A Season of Reckoning for only one of them. Jules took one last look in his son's direction as he held Eli's notched gun in his hand. "You think you the law or something now, Eli?""It's exactly like that, Jules!""Well, if that don't beat all!" Jules chuckled as he looked at Eli's gun. His mood turned sad, then sinister as he let his thumb ease over the first notch. He retched as he thought on what the notches represented. "I done some mean things in my life as a sinning man, but no thing as evil as what you done on this gun handle. Killing a man is a natural thing. Gloating on it is a godless act.""It was no more than what was deserved.""You thinking on cutting one more?""I expect there'll be six soon enough.""You gonna cut your own self in the handle?" Jules voice cracked as he looked at the hatred on his son's face. Hot, salty, tears of bitterness formed at the corners of his eyes. Deep in the darkest corners of the tortured recesses of his being, a last flickering glimmer of a soul emerged. "Ben! You look on and see who can rightly claim to be your father."Ben turned away.Jules thought it over and holstered the gun. Then he reached down and offered Eli a hand up. Eli looked doubtful, then took the hand and got to his feet.Without a need for words, they checked their gun loads, then holstered their pistols and eased to a proper distance. They paused for a moment of mutual respect, before a nod to be at the ready. Jules tipped his hat to Stella. She smirked..Ben turned and looked on with curious eyes, not sure which man to champion. The streets fell silent.There was a mean eternity of restless rawhide, eager iron and itchy fingers ... then a flash of gunfire ...