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

Author: Richard Baker
Publisher: Wizards of the Coast
ISBN: 0786957514
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 437

Book Description
In this final volume in the epic adventures of the Blades of the Moonsea, Geran Hulmaster seeks revenge against the mage who hurt his family and his people Rhovann Disarnnyl was once an arrogant elf lord who exploited the life of luxury his ancestral home in Myth Drannor afforded him. But that was before the upstart human Geran Hulmaster maimed him in a duel—and before Rhovann was exiled from Myth Drannor for practicing shadow magic. In a cruel act of vengeance, Rhovann drives Geran’s family from their ancestral lands, fills Hulburg with nightmarish goelms to enforce his will, and crushes the natives with the aggressive enforcement of unfair laws. But Geran Hulmaster will not stand idly by as Rhovann continues his tyrannical rule. Intent on making Rhovann’s life miserable, he violates his exile to stalk the streets of his former home, hunting down the wretched moon elf mage and rallying the oppressed people of Hulburg. But Geran’s enemies are as numerous as the laws he breaks in the name of revenge—and each and every one of them is determined to see him dead.

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."

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.

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.

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?

Avenger!

Author: Jamie Thomson
Publisher: Fabled Lands Llp
ISBN: 9781909905108
Category : Games
Languages : en
Pages : 212

Book Description
You are Avenger, a ninja trained in the Way of the Tiger, a lethal master of unarmed combat who must confront ultimate evil to avenge the death of your foster-father. Your foster-father's assassin has stolen the scrolls of Kettsuin. Now, the secret word of power could be used to imprison the great god Kwon in Inferno forever - unleashing the forces of evil throughout the world of Orb. Your quest is to find the assassin before he reaches the Pillars of Change. The fate of Orb depends on your deadly skills and cunning. THE WAY OF THE TIGER is the eighties gamebook adventure classic now revised and expanded for a new generation of fans. You choose the skills and martial arts moves to defeat your enemies, gaining knowledge and honing your abilities to use as your quest progresses. Are you ready for the Way of the Tiger?