Blackstone Publishing Catalog, Jan-Jun 2020

SPRING 2020

BLAC KS TO NE P U BLISHING

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Blackstone Publishing Welcome to Blackstone Publishing’s stellar spring 2020 showcase of new books and authors. We’re thrilled to have on the roster bestselling author Meg Gardiner.

Her new crime-fiction novel, The Dark Corners of the Night, publishes in February, and we’re looking forward to keeping readers up all through the night in the best of literary ways with this chilling thriller. Having Meg Gardiner join the ranks of our growing list of crime writers, which also includes the Edgar-nominated Catherine Ryan Howard and New York Times bestselling author Adrian McKinty, is especially exciting for us, and a great way to kick off 2020.

We’re further establishing the strength of our YA offerings with Sara Hosey’s contemporary-fiction title Iphigenia Murphy and Lani Forbes’s fantasy The Seventh Sun, as well as adding depth to our historical-fiction books with Remembered by Yvonne Battle-Felton. Also on the spring list is Apocalypse Mobsters: Judgment Day, the first book in a new series from New York Times bestselling author Nicholas Sansbury Smith.

And we are introducing a multitude of debut authors, including Edward A. Farmer, author of Pale, and Kimiko Guthrie, author of Block Seventeen. These are major new discoveries that we cannot wait to break out and build audiences for.

The Blackstone team is looking forward to connecting with all of you at the upcoming bookseller and library shows, sharing all the latest on this great list of titles, and introducing you to our growing list of incredibly diverse and extremely talented authors.

—Josh Stanton, CEO of Blackstone Publishing

TA B L E O F C O N T E N T S NEW RELEASES JANUARY

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FEBRUARY

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MARCH

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APRIL

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MAY

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JUNE

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CLASSIC REISSUES

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SPRING 2020 PAPERBACKS

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WESTERNS

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SHOWS

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OUR STORY

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MEG GARDINER Meg Gardiner is the critically acclaimed author of the UNSUB series and China Lake, which won the Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original and was a finalist for NPR’s 100 Best Thrillers Ever. Stephen King has said of Meg Gardiner: “This woman is as good as Michael Connelly… her novels are, simply put, the finest crime-suspense series I’ve come across in the last twenty years.” Gardiner was also recently elected President of the Mystery Writers of America for 2019.

The Dark Corners of the Night will be the third novel in her Barry Award-winning UNSUB series, which received three starred reviews from the major trade publications and was sold to CBS Television.

I am the legion of the night …

He appears in the darkness like a ghost, made of shadows and fear—the Midnight Man. He comes for the parents but leaves the children alive, tiny witnesses to unspeakable horror. The bedroom communities of Los Angeles are gripped with dread, and the attacks are escalating.

Still reeling from her best friend’s close call in a bombing six months ago, FBI behavioral analyst Caitlin Hendrix has come to Los Angeles to assist in the Midnight Man investigation and do what she does best—hunt a serial killer. Her work is what keeps her going, but something about this UNSUB—unknown subject—doesn’t sit right. She soon realizes that this case will test not only her skills but also her dedication, for within the heart of a killer lives a secret that mirrors Caitlin’s own past.

Hesitancy is not an option, but will she be able to do what must be done if the time comes?

Tense and impactful, Edgar AwardTM winner Meg Gardiner’s latest UNSUB thriller will leave you on the edge of your seat until its riveting conclusion.

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NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY

BESTSELLING AUTHOR

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The first book in New York Times bestselling author Nicholas Sansbury Smith’s gritty new series following the Moretti Neapolitan crime family’s rise to power in a postapocalyptic Los Angeles, and the brave few that risk everything to stop them from destroying what little remains of the city.

NICHOLAS SANSBURY SMITH is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Hell Divers series. His other work includes the Extinction Cycle series, the Trackers series, and the Orbs series. He worked for Iowa Homeland Security and Emergency Management in disaster planning and mitigation before switching careers to focus on his one true passion—writing. When he isn’t writing or daydreaming about the apocalypse, he enjoys running, biking, spending time with his family, and traveling the world. He is an Ironman triathlete and lives in Iowa with his wife, their dogs, and a house full of books.

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PALE

“Some things just don’t keep well inside this house …”

The summer of 1966 burned hot across America but nowhere hotter than the cotton fields of Mississippi. Finding herself in a precarious position as a black woman living alone, Bernice accepts her brother Floyd’s invitation to join him as a servant for a white family and she enters the web of hostility and deception that is the Kern plantation household.

The secrets of the house are plentiful yet the silence suddenly breaks with the arrival of the harvest and the appearance of Jesse and Fletcher. These two brothers, the sons of the house servant Silva, awaken a vengeful seed within the Misses of the house as she plots to punish not only her husband but Silva’s family as well.

Bernice walks the fine line between emissary and accomplice, as she tries her best to draw secrets from the Misses’ heart, while using their closeness to protect the lives of the people around her.

With a dazzling voice and rich emotional tension, Pale explores the ties that bind and how quickly humanity can fade and return us to primal ways.

EDWARD FARMER

is a native of Memphis, Tennessee, where he journaled and cultivated stories his entire childhood. He is a graduate of Amherst College with a degree in English and psychology, and recipient of the MacArthur-Leithauser Travel Award for creative writing. He currently lives and writes in Pasadena, California.

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BLOCK SEVENTEEN Block Seventeen is an immersive and haunting debut novel that examines the trauma of inheritance in surprising ways.

Akiko, who prefers to be called Jane, cannot locate her mother, at least not physically. An intruder burgles Jane’s apartment but takes nothing, leaving behind only small piles of household items. Jane’s fiancé, Shiro, foolishly plots to expose his employer, the TSA. And the super refuses to fix the broken heater in their apartment. Jane tolerates this underwhelming present until a cry from the past robs her of all peace.

Jane’s uncle was named Akiko, too. He died as an infant in an internment camp for Japanese Americans in Alabama. It is a namesake Jane has rejected her entire adult life. But, as Jane searches for her mother, she learns more about her mother’s childhood, her grandmother, her family’s fortunes before and after internment. She learns how fear and humiliation can drive a person to commit desperate acts.

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In melodic and mesmerizing prose, Guthrie leads the reader to and from the past, through an unreliable present, and, inescapably, toward a shocking revelation. Block Seventeen is a moving exploration of a dark passage of American history, as told by an exciting new literary voice.

KIMIKO GUTHRIE

grew up in Berkeley, dancing like her mother and writing like her father. She teaches dance and theater at CSU East Bay and is the co–artistic director of Dandelion Dancetheater. She holds a BA in creative writing from UC Santa Cruz and an MFA in choreography from Mills College. Kimiko was a resident choreographer for Asian American Dance Performances, a member of the Margaret Jenkins Dance Company and has worked with many other Bay Area–based choreographers. She currently enjoys living intergenerationally in Oakland with her husband, two kids, and dog upstairs, while her parents live downstairs.

Her writing has been published by Bamboo Ridge Press; Block Seventeen is her debut novel.

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After Englishman John Blackthorne is lost at sea, he awakens in a place few Europeans know of and even fewer have seen—Nippon. Thrust into the closed society that is seventeenth-century Japan, a land where the line between life and death is razor-thin, Blackthorne must negotiate not only a foreign people, with unknown customs and language, but also his own definitions of morality, truth, and freedom. As internal political strife and a clash of cultures lead to seemingly inevitable conflict, Blackthorne’s loyalty and strength of character are tested by both passion and loss, and he is torn between two worlds that will each be forever changed.

Powerful and engrossing, capturing both the rich pageantry and stark realities of life in feudal Japan, Shogun is a critically acclaimed powerhouse of a book. Heart-stopping, edge-of-your-seat action melds seamlessly with intricate historical detail and raw human emotion. Endlessly compelling, this sweeping saga captivated the world to become not only one of the best-selling novels of all time but also one of the highest-rated television miniseries, as well as inspiring a nationwide surge of interest in the culture of Japan.

Shakespearean in both scope and depth, Shogun is, as the New York Times put it, “…not only something you read—you live it.” Provocative, absorbing, and endlessly fascinating, there is only one: Shogun.

THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING

ASIAN SAGA

Summer 2019

Beginning in feudal Japan and carrying through China, Hong Kong, Iran, and on into the late twentieth century, James Clavell’s Asian Saga is the iconic series that traces the coming together of East and West, and the power of free will to carve destinies. Woven throughout this epic chronicle is the story of the Struan family and the Asian trading empire they built from humble beginnings to become an international consortium. Struan descendants interlace their way through the novels, creating a rich and varied landscape through which the momentous events of history become personal.

The master of historical fiction artfully twists love and war, trust and betrayal, and the shared human condition into a complex web of intermingled narratives that span across both time and continents. Meticulously researched and utterly absorbing, Clavell’s timeless Asian Saga novels have been embraced by a generation of readers and are now ready to be discovered by the next.

Shogun After Englishman John Blackthorne is lost at sea, he awakens in a place few Europeans know of and even fewer have seen—Nippon. Thrust into the closed society that is seventeenth-century Japan, Blackthorne is torn between two worlds that will each be forever changed.

“Irresistible. I can’t remember when a novel has seized my mind like this one…It’s not only something you read—you live it.”

—New York Times Book Review “Superbly crafted…Grips the reader like a riptide.”

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Tai-Pan Dirk Struan rose from humble beginnings to build the world’s largest Far East trading company. Along the way, however, he made a powerful enemy in Tyler Brock, Struan’s rival from their early opium-smuggling days. War between England and China might be over, but the hostilities remain.

“Clavell is, as always, a matchless tale-spinner.”

—Cosmopolitan “Grand entertainment…Packed with action…Gaudy and flamboyant with blood and sin, treachery and conspiracy, sex and murder.”

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King Rat Japanese POW camp Changi, Singapore: hell on earth for the soldiers contained within. An American corporal, known as the King, has used his personality and wiles to facilitate trading with guards and locals. But trading is illegal—and the King has made a formidable enemy. Robin Grey believes in the British class system: everyone should know their place, and the King’s place is at the bottom.

“A dramatic, utterly engrossing novel…Harsh and brutal in its revelations…James Clavell is a spellbinding storyteller, a brilliant observer, a man who understands much and forgives much.”

—New York Times

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Whirlwind When the Iranian people rise up against the Shah, the region becomes a powder keg, waiting to explode. Caught up in the revolution is a British helicopter company owned by a secret Hong Kong–based consortium: Noble House, controlled by the Struan family. In a risky move, the pilots concoct a plan to get their choppers out of Iran. But will they be able to escape before it’s too late?

“James Clavell does more than entertain. He transports us into worlds we’ve not known, stimulating, educating, questioning…A wonder of detail.”

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Escape Tehran, Iran 1979: Simmering religious tensions explode and the Shah is forced to flee. A British helicopter company faces bankruptcy if their copters are lost in the uprising. Tasked with saving as many of the helicopters as he can, Finnish pilot Erikki Yokkonen and his Iranian wife, Azadeh, become caught up in the political situation surrounding them. Threaded throughout Whirlwind is a moving love story, expertly told, and here allowed to stand on its own.

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The Art of War The words held within these pages, written over two and a half thousand years ago, ring just as true today as they did in fifth century BC China. Bestselling author and master storyteller James Clavell’s wonderfully evocative foreword and helpful notes throughout the text guide the listener through preparations and battle plans, correct use of weapons and knowing when to fight—and when not to fight.

“The strategic advice that [The Art of War] offers concerns much more than the conduct of war. It is an ancient book of proverbial wisdom, a book of life.”

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The Children’s Story In this classic and chilling tale about an elementary school classroom in post-war occupied America, James Clavell brings to light the vulnerability of children and the power educators have to shape and change young minds. Originally written in the era of the Cold War, Clavell’s enduringly relevant, extraordinary allegory on the impressionability of the human mind is still read in schools around the globe today, and is a call to every person to keep questioning and keep learning.

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JAMES CLAVELL

(1921–1994) was a novelist, screenwriter, director, and World War II veteran and prisoner of war. He is best known for his epic Asian Saga novels, which launched with the 1962 bestseller King Rat, and their televised adaptations. He also wrote screenplays for such films as The Great Escape and The Fly, and was a writer, director, and producer on To Sir, with Love. His books Shogun, Noble House, Tai-Pan, and Whirlwind were #1 New York Times bestsellers.

Mysteries

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“Gregory Mcdonald’s Fletch novels are the pinnacle of California sunshine noir—twisty, smart-alecky, and very, very human…One of the great literary creations.”

—PATTON OSWALT

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It might have been an accident that brought down the Boeing 707 over Boston Harbor. Or it could have been greed, murder, or even terrorism, and it’s up to inspector Flynn to get to the bottom of it.

When Flynn’s daughter asks him to rescue her friend Billy from the cemetery, the good inspector is pretty sure there’s something more behind what at first seems like a bully’s prank.

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When Flynn is suddenly summoned to a secret wilderness compound, he is a little surprised to find himself the hostage of a secret club of the nation’s most powerful and peculiar.

Someone is looking to wreck the nation’s economy, and they’re spending a lot of money to do it. With every lead going nowhere, Flynn’s most dizzying logic is put to the test.

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“[A] pleasant escape reading that, thanks to the sharp mind and tart Irish tongue of Flynn, is more civilized and infinitely more enjoyable than most books of its kind.”

—NEW YORK TIMES

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PARTHOLON SE RI ES

Enter the world of Partholon alongside Epona’s Beloved, where fantasy and romance await! Spanning decades, the Partholon series brings to life strong, funny heroines and handsome, loyal heroes. Full of unforgettable passion, mythological creatures, and electrifying action in each story, P. C. Cast’s exhilarating series continues to captivate fans in this world and across the Divide!

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“P. C. Cast introduces modern woman Shannon into a mythic world with humor and verve.”

—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, on Divine by Mistake

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THE ACCLAIMED, HIGHLY-PRAISED, TOP SCIENCE FICTION DEBUT OF 2019

THE LESSON BY CADWELL TURNBULL COMING TO PAPERBACK JUNE 2020

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n alien ship rests over Water Island. For five years the people of the US Virgin Islands have lived with the Ynaa, a race of superadvanced aliens on a research mission they will not fully disclose. They are benevolent in many ways but meet any act of aggression with disproportional wrath. This has led to a strained relationship between the Ynaa and the local Virgin Islanders and a peace that cannot last.

A year after the death of a young boy at the hands of an Ynaa, three families find themselves at the center of the inevitable conflict, witnesses and victims to events that will touch everyone and teach a terrible lesson.

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“The Lesson does what all the best science fiction does: it uses the supernatural to reveal something true about our world.”

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“An excellent read…It’s a thought provoking and interesting story, one that I’m still thinking about.”

—The Verge

Cadwell Turnbull is a

graduate from the North Carolina State University’s Creative Writing MFA in Fiction and English MA in Linguistics. He was the winner of the 2014 NCSU Prize for Short Fiction and attended Clarion West 2016. His short fiction has appeared in The Verge, Lightspeed, Nightmare, and Asimov’s Science Fiction. His Asimov’s short story “When the Rains Come Back” made Barnes and Noble’s Sci-Fi & Fantasy’s Short Fiction Roundup in April 2018. His Nightmare story “Loneliness Is in Your Blood” was selected for The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018. His Asimov’s novelette “Other Worlds and This One” was also selected by the anthology as a notable story. The Lesson is his debut novel.

• Boston Globe Behind the Book Feature • A Hollywood Reporter Hot Summer Books: Top 10 Beach Reads • Selected as a Book Club Read for WGBH Boston’s Bookmarked: The Under the Radar Book Club • A WAMC Northeast Public Radio Book Pick of Summer from The Book Loft • Author interviewed as part of PEN America’s PEN Ten Interview series • Ars Technica Most Anticipated Books for the Second Half of 2019 • B&N Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of 2019…So Far • The Verge’s All The SFF Books We’re Looking Forward To In 2019 roundup • An Apple iBooks Bestseller, Science Fiction category

SPRING 2020 PAPERBACKS Widows-in-Law

by Michele W. Miller

When an attorney dies and $12 million disappears, his widow, first wife, and rebellious teenage daughter must contend with criminals, the FBI, a cheating law partner, and each other.

“Miller has a special ability to craft descriptive fast-paced prose, creating an exciting crime novel that is also an astute commentary on the state of family and marriage today.”

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—Charles Belfoure, New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Architect

AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK 2/25/20

St. Nicholas Salvage & Wrecking

by Dana Haynes

Michael Patrick Finnigan and Katalin Fiero Dahar of St. Nicholas Salvage & Wrecking get the assignment to track down and save a group of kidnapped Middle Eastern refugee children.

“St. Nicholas Salvage & Wrecking is a great read! Dana Haynes has crafted another exciting, well-written thriller with characters that leap off the page. Count me as a fan!”

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—Boyd Morrison, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Ark and Rogue Wave

AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK 3/3/20

Memo from Turner

by Tim Willocks

When a young South African fatally injures a teenage black street girl, the case falls to Turner of Cape Town homicide, and he will not be bought or bullied.

“Willocks’s thrillers are marked out by the elegance of the writing coupled with the brutality of the action. Memo from Turner is no exception.”

—Mail on Sunday (London)

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SPRING 2020 PAPERBACKS The Deadly Kiss-Off

by Paul Di Filippo

Glen and Stan, scamdom’s “Odd Couple,” are promoting a half-genius, half-addlepated invention from a naïve inventor, in this half hilarious, half deadly caper that’s 100 percent entertaining.

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The Korean Woman

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The Korean Woman features the return of Dalia Artzi, the deadly Israeli operative introduced in Altman’s previous thriller, False Flag. Military historian Artzi lives in peace but is always ready for war. In The Korean Woman she once more finds herself pressed into action when international turmoil threatens unthinkable cataclysm.

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“A hard-as-nails, breathtakingly paced thriller that absolutely could not be more topical.”

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My Detective

by Jeffrey Fleishman

Los Angeles is booming, but someone is killing architects. As Detective Sam Carver traverses the city, a female killer watches and sees in him a kindred damaged spirit, a man who can understand her.

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In eighteenth-century London, a household of Huguenot silk weavers pursue the perfect silk design, while unrest among the journeyman silk weavers boils over into riot and rebellion.

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Another Life

by Robert Haller A Novel

Set during one summer in a small town in upstate New York, Another Life is a modern comedy with a dark edge, centered around an evangelical church.

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HIGH DESERT

A WESTERN DUO

by Wayne D. Overholser

Murdo Morgan left Paradise Valley when Broad Clancy killed his family. But instead of revenge, Morgan returns to finish his father’s dream of settling a thousand farmers, no matter the backlash from Clancy.

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SOUR CREEK VALLEY A WESTERN STORY

by Max Brand

After spending two years in prison, Blondy Kitchin is convinced by a chaplain that the range is the place for him to make use of his brute strength and free spirit.

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RIDERS OF THE DAWN A WESTERN DUO

by Louis L'Amour

In “Riders of the Dawn,” a woman makes a gunslinger want to change his ways. In “Ride, You Tonto Raiders,” the woman a gunslinger must meet is one he just widowed.

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by Lauran Paine

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After robbing $28,000 from an express office safe in Montana, the Buck Streeter gang plans to hit Brigham, Wyoming. What they haven’t considered is an icy snowstorm—and US Marshal John Galloway, who is determined to stop the gang’s terrorizing small towns across the West.

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A WESTERN DUO

by Ray Hogan

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Two great stories from a master of the traditional Western, Ray Hogan.

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CITY OF ROCKS

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DARING DUVAL

RECKONING AT LANSING'S FERRY

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CHEYENNE PASS

THE BUSINESS OF DYING

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ONLY THE STUBBORN SURVIVE

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by Peter Dawson

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BEYOND FORT NORTH

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DEAD MAN'S JOURNEY

ACROSS THE RÍO BRAVO

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ACROSS THE RÍO BRAVO. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

FLYNN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

ALL THINGS LEFT WILD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

FLYNN’S IN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

ANOTHER LIFE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

FLYNN’S WORLD. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

ART OF WAR, THE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

HIGH DESERT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

BEYOND FORT NORTH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

HUNGRY BLADE, THE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

BEYOND THE HORIZON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

IPHIGENIA MURPHY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

BLACKBERRY AND WILD ROSE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

JUDGMENT DAY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

BLOCK SEVENTEEN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

KING RAT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

BRIGHID’S QUEST. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

KOREAN WOMAN, THE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

BUCK PASSES FLYNN, THE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

LESSON, THE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

BUSINESS OF DYING, THE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

LITTLE CREW OF BUTCHERS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

CARIOCA FLETCH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

MASTER OF SORROWS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

CHEYENNE PASS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

MEMO FROM TURNER. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

CHILDREN’S STORY, THE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

MY DETECTIVE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

CITY OF ROCKS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

OLD RELIGION, THE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

CONFESS, FLETCH. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

ONLY THE STUBBORN SURVIVE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

DARING DUVAL. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

PALE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

DARK CORNERS OF THE NIGHT, THE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

QUEEN OF PARIS, THE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

DEAD MAN’S JOURNEY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

RECKONING AT LANSING’S FERRY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

DEADLY KISS-OFF, THE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

REMEMBERED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

DIVINE BY BLOOD. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

RIDERS OF THE DAWN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

DIVINE BY CHOICE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

SEVENTH SUN, THE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

DIVINE BY MISTAKE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

SHALL WE DANCE? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

DREDGING IN SWANN, A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

SHOGUN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

ELPHAME’S CHOICE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

SON OF FLETCH. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

EPIC SOLITUDE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

SOUR CREEK VALLEY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

ESCAPE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

ST. NICHOLAS SALVAGE & WRECKING. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

FLETCH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

TAI-PAN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

FLETCH AND THE MAN WHO. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

TAOS LIGHTNING. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

FLETCH AND THE WIDOW BRADLEY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

TEXAS FLAT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

FLETCH REFLECTED. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

WHILE THE MUSIC PLAYED. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

FLETCH, TOO. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

WHIRLWIND. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

FLETCH WON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

WIDOWS-IN-LAW. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

FLETCH’S FORTUNE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

WILLA’S GROVE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

FLETCH’S MOXIE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

WINTER MOON. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 38

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