Avenger

Author: Frederick Forsyth
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1429974001
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 354

Book Description
Frederick Forsyth is back with Avenger! A heart-stopping thriller of murder, intrigue, deception, and revenge Attorney Calvin Dexter hangs his shingle in a quiet New Jersey town, has a reasonably successful practice, and takes the hills strong while triathlon training. But Dexter is no ordinary lawyer. On Sundays, he reads the paper and shuffles around his dark, empty house, trying to forget about a life he has lost forever. Until, of course, Dexter reads something in the papers that sends him the necessary signal. Until one of the handful who know of Dexter's other life tries to contact him. For in a world that has forgotten right and wrong, few can settle a score like Cal Dexter can. But the game is changing, and this time CIA agent Kevin McBride must find a way to stop Dexter before his quest for vengeance throws the world into chaos.

Dragon Avenger

Author: E.E. Knight
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780451461094
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388

Book Description
Flung to freedom as their mother battles a group of slave-trading dwarves, young Wistala and her gray, scaleless brother, Auron, find themselves alone in the Upper World. And when Auron sacrifices himself so that she may live, Wistala must overcome her grief and fear to find others of her kind-and bring her wrath to bear on those who would destroy them.

The Black Avenger in Atlantic Culture

Author: Grégory Pierrot
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820354929
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 275

Book Description
With the Ta-Nehisi Coates-authored Black Panther comic book series (2016); recent films Django Unchained (2012) and The Birth of a Nation (2016); Nate Parker's cinematic imagining of the Nat Turner rebellion; and screen adaptations of Marvel's Luke Cage (2016) and Black Panther (2018); violent black redeemers have rarely been so present in mainstream Western culture. Grégory Pierrot argues, however, that the black avenger has always been with us: the trope has fired the news and imaginations of the United States and the larger Atlantic World for three centuries. The black avenger channeled fresh anxieties about slave uprisings and racial belonging occasioned by European colonization in the Americas. Even as he is portrayed as a heathen and a barbarian, his values-honor, loyalty, love-reflect his ties to the West. Yet being racially different, he cannot belong, and his qualities in turn make him an anomaly among black people. The black avenger is thus a liminal figure defining racial borders. Where his body lies, lies the color line. Regularly throughout the modern era and to this day, variations on the trope have contributed to defining race in the Atlantic World and thwarting the constitution of a black polity. Pierrot's The Black Avenger in Atlantic Culture studies this cultural history, examining a multicultural and cross-historical network of print material including fiction, drama, poetry, news, and historical writing as well as visual culture. It tracks the black avenger trope from its inception in the seventeenth century to the U.S. occupation of Haiti in 1915. Pierrot argues that this Western archetype plays an essential role in helping exclusive, hostile understandings of racial belonging become normalized in the collective consciousness of Atlantic nations. His study follows important articulations of the figure and how it has shifted based on historical and cultural contexts.

Kennedy's Avenger

Author: Dan Abrams
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1488078378
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400

Book Description
NOW A NATIONAL BESTSELLER New York Times bestselling authors Dan Abrams and David Fisher bring to life the incredible story of one of America’s most publicized—and most surprising—criminal trials in history. No crime in history had more eyewitnesses. On November 24, 1963, two days after the killing of President Kennedy, a troubled nightclub owner named Jack Ruby quietly slipped into the Dallas police station and assassinated the assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald. Millions of Americans witnessed the killing on live television, and yet the event would lead to questions for years to come. It also would help to spark the conspiracy theories that have continued to resonate today. Under the long shadow cast by the assassination of America’s beloved president, few would remember the bizarre trial that followed three months later in Dallas, Texas. How exactly does one defend a man who was seen pulling the trigger in front of millions? And, more important, how did Jack Ruby, who fired point-blank into Oswald live on television, die an innocent man? Featuring a colorful cast of characters, including the nation’s most flamboyant lawyer pitted against a tough-as-Texas prosecutor, award-winning authors Dan Abrams and David Fisher unveil the astonishing details behind the first major trial of the television century. While it was Jack Ruby who appeared before the jury, it was also the city of Dallas and the American legal system being judged by the world.

Avenger’s Heat

Author: Katie Reus
Publisher: KR Press, LLC
ISBN: 1635563437
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 359

Book Description
They’re just friends… Enforcer Erin Flynn has dedicated her life to protecting shifters. But protecting her heart from Noah, the gorgeous wolf who saved her life last year, is more difficult than any mission. Especially since he’s determined to break down all her walls. And now that they’ve been assigned a job together, she’s not sure she can hide any longer. But he wants more, including all her secrets… Sent back to his hometown of New Orleans, Noah finds himself entangled in a mystery more sinister than he or Erin could have imagined. As the body count rises, chilling information about Erin’s past is revealed. The people who wanted her dead long ago are trying to finish the job—and Noah will destroy anyone who tries. But without Erin’s trust, they’re both doomed. SECOND EDITION - This updated and revised edition is the author’s preferred text.

Jessica Jones

Author: Brian Michael Bendis
Publisher: Marvel Entertainment
ISBN: 130248995X
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 201

Book Description
You've binge-watched her hit series, now binge-read Jessica Jones' greatest Avengers adventures - including every post-ALIAS/PULSE collaboration by her creators, Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Gaydos! While the Skrulls' SECRET INVASION rages, Jessica makes a fateful decision that may wreck her marriage to Luke Cage! But when Norman Osborn captures Hawkeye, Jessica will step up - and Jewel will fly again! Uncover Jessica and Luke's first case together when Doctor Doom crashes their dinner date. COLLECTING: NEW AVENGERS (2005) #38, #47; NEW AVENGERS ANNUAL (2006) #3; NEW AVENGERS (2010) #8, #31; WHAT IF JESSICA JONES HAD JOINED THE AVENGERS?, CUSTOM NETFLIX JESSICA JONES NYCC COMIC; MATERIAL FROM AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (1963) #601, MARVEL 75TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION #1.

The Avenger Chronicles

Author: Tom DeFalco
Publisher: Moonstone Press
ISBN: 9781933076324
Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Presents eighteen original short stories charting the adventures of crime fighter and millionaire adventurer Richard Benson, "The Avenger."

U.S.Avengers Vol. 1

Author: Al Ewing
Publisher: Marvel Entertainment
ISBN: 1302499068
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 147

Book Description
Collects U.S.Avengers #1-6. In a world beset by danger, the United States of America needs a team of heroes they can rely on. Welcome to...American Intelligence Mechanics! A.I.M. will dare any danger - no matter how awesome that danger might be - to save their nation from the wildest, weirdest threats of all! The most patriotic super-group ever is here to save the day. And they'll do it all looking tried and true in the red, white and blue! Can you live without...the U.S.Avengers?

Avengers of the Moon

Author: Allen Steele
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1466886447
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 301

Book Description
Allen Steele, author of Arkwright, gives us a thrilling piece of science fiction pulp with Avengers of the Moon Curt Newton has spent most of his life hidden from the rest of humankind, being raised by a robot, an android, and the disembodied brain of a renowned scientist. This unlikely trio of guardians has kept his existence a closely guarded secret after the murder of Curt's parents. Curt's innate curiosity and nose for trouble inadvertently lead him into a plot to destabilize the Solar Coalition and assassinate the president. There's only one way to uncover the evil mastermind—Curt must become Captain Future. With the permission of the Edmond Hamilton estate, Allen Steele revives the exciting adventures of Captain Future. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Avenger of Blood

Author: John Hagee
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
ISBN: 1418539155
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 346

Book Description
In Avengers of Blood the dramatic conflict between historic Christianity and ancient heresies parallels the resurgence of Gnostic and pagan beliefs in the late twentieth century under the guise of the New Age movement. the plot also deals with social issues--such a child abandonment, sanctioned by Roman law in a way that will touch the hearts of pro-life Christians today. As the story continues, released from his exile on Patmos, the apostle John sets out to deliver his apocalyptic writings to the seven churches of Asia. But the elderly apostle's protege, Jacob turns away from his call to the ministry in order to seek revenge on his family's persecutor. His sister Rebecca, must confront her feelings for the unbelieving lawyer hired to hand her late father's estate. Will she follow her heart or sacrifice love to follow God's will? Rebecca's illegitimate son, Victor, is destined to become a respected pastor who must battle enemies both inside and outside the church.