Bøger af Mike Marshall

A nostalgic coming-of-age story set in the Old West. Young Allen North leaves his family's ranch to set out on his own. While working as a ranch hand, he learns what it means to have a mentor, make friends and battle bad guys, and is lucky to discover what it means to fall in love. But first he has to prove himself by not letting an ornery old horse named Alice get the better of him. Outlaw Simon Blackburn, who finds trouble wherever he goes and known for shooting his victims in the back, is on the trail to find and kill Allen after a gun fight that left his two cattle-thieving brothers dead...then he meets Alice.

Trigg, a university professor and part-time "desert rat," searches for old abandoned gold mines in the Southwest desert. On one of her treks she finds a long-lost and long-forgotten stash of Mormon gold coins. This is her adventure as she creates a clever plan to out "horse-trade" some big-time and somewhat shady coin collectors and dealers before another interested party tries to stop her.

A sweet and often humorous collection of autobiographical stories about the childhood friendship of two young boys and their adventures growing up together during the 1930's Depression in a U.S. Naval shipyard town.

The legend and curse of a long-forgotten Native American god, Fist of Fire, is revived when a remote cave containing previously undiscovered cave drawings, artifacts, and bones is suddenly unsealed during a violent thunder storm near where retired police officers Ben Franks and Charlie Bird are camping. With the help of local Native American experts, the legend is revealed. And when anthropologist Dr. Helen Wilson arrives to examine the remains, Ben unexpectedly finds that he is not too old to fall in love again. But not everyone has the site's best interest in mind. Dr. Stanley Burns, jealous at not being chosen to lead the archaeological discovery, tries to sabotage the project. Instead, he incurs the wrath of Fist of Fire.

One morning near a lake in the mountains of Oregon, a small plane, being pursued by a military helicopter, flies out of nowhere and drops a briefcase filled with cash near the spot where Jim Kimball, a 67-year-old retired and widowed engineer, was out on one of his regular wildlife-watching excursions with his little dog. That day changed Jim's life forever.