Lauran Paine Books

Five days after a successful robbery in Burnt Timbers, Montana, the Buck Streeter gang, having stolen $28,000, is hiding in an abandoned shack above Brigham, Wyoming. With the bank and express office conveniently located across from each other and no telegraph communication, Brigham appears to be the ideal location for their next heist. However, gang leader Buck Streeter is concerned about Frank Reno, their oldest member, who suffers from consumption, causing sleepless nights for the group in the harsh, cold environment. Despite their confidence, the gang is unaware of an impending snowstorm and the relentless pursuit of US Marshal John Galloway. After eighteen years of law enforcement, Galloway is weary but undeterred, determined to end the gang's reign of terror across the West. Following orders from the Denver office and armed with knowledge about the gang, Galloway tracks them from Burnt Timbers to Brigham, convinced that the town will be their next target. As the storm approaches, the tension builds, raising the stakes for both the gang and the marshal, leading to an inevitable confrontation.

A feud between the biggest and richest cattleman, Richard DeFore, and the local stage line couldn't have come at a worse time to Winchester, Colorado. The town's new sheriff, John Klinger, young, inexperienced, and hot-headed, hasn't been in the job for a month yet, when DeFore, who has never sold or donated the right of way for the pass which is on his land, demands the stage line pay a toll for passage, which the company is refusing to do. Luckily, Sheriff Klinger is backed by Deputy Ethan MacCallister, his father-in-law as well as the former sheriff, when the first confrontation takes place on the pass when DeFore's men stop the northbound stagecoach. MacCallister understands the importance of the north-south roadway for the survival of Winchester, and he knows this smoldering feud could easily escalate into an all-out war between the two factions. So he keeps calm and defuses the situation, but when Ray Thorne, a notorious gunfighter, steps out of the stagecoach as a representative for the stage-line's headquarters in Denver, he knows the stakes have been raised. With tensions running so high on both sides, can he keep the peace while helping his son-in-law learn what it takes to be an effective lawman.

In "Renegade Rifles," the hostile Apaches have attacked a wagon convoy at night, a time when traditionally the Apaches do not fight.

Walt Hodge had delivered eighty horses to Whipple Barracks for the Army and he wasn't in a big hurry to get home. He traveled down the Saginaw Mountains and into the upland cow country of Sunflower, Arizona, seeking only a cold glass of beer, food, and a bed for himself, along with feed for his horse. He should have listened and turned around when he asked the hostler what was going on and was told: "Trouble, mister. Bad trouble." After he had a drink, surrounded by silent cowmen, he discovered why the town of Sunflower was so unusually quiet and empty. He had walked into the middle of an emerging range war over water rights in the middle of a blistering summer. Being mistaken as a one of Jim Bricker's B-Back-to-Back men, annoyed Walt, but being knocked out by a Bricker rider, who said Walt was a Mike Weedon man, was just more than he could take. Then he met Bricker's daughter. It doesn't take long for Hodge to find himself in the middle of things once he is blamed for the killing of a Bricker man. By the time the war was over three men would be dead, the town of Sunflower would find its self-respect, and a jailhouse would be full of demoralized cowmen.

"This Center Point large print edition is published in the year 2020 in co-operation with Golden West Literary Agency"--Title page verso.

The collected stories....Volume II....of EAA "Sport Aviation" columnist Lauran Paine Jr., retired military pilot, retired airline pilot and RV-8 builder. These are stories for the aviation soul.

Forced to take a precipitous route off the rimrocks and down into an unknown valley to escape certain death by four men pursuing him, Pete Knight, a cowhand seeking a job, sees a town ahead in the distance. If he can just make it to that town, he believes he will be safe. Little does he know that he is heading into Gunsight, Wyoming, where a long-standing feud between the townsmen and the range men has reached the boiling point. Arthur Hobart owner of the Diamond H has issued a warning that if the people of Gunsight do not stop victimizing his cowpunchers, he's going to bring in his own law enforcer and burn the town down. And the appearance of Pete means only one thing to the townsfolk: Hobart is about to make good on his threat. When Pete is jailed, he tries to convince Sheriff Mike Mulaney to get confirmation that he is not who the Gunsighters think he is. But before the matter can be resolved, Pete is lynched in the middle of the night by five men wearing burlap hoods. When his Pete's brother Ben, a US deputy marshal, arrives seeking vengeance for his brother's hanging, he has even more reason to hate the town and what it represents than those on the Diamond H. But when Hobart tries to use Ben's arrival for his own advantage, Ben must choose between protecting the town and abandoning his trail of vengeance or standing by while Hobart's threats become reality.

Kniha je příběhem organizace věrné nacismu a německému vítězství, jež se stala prvořadým zdrojem kvalitních informací, které Hitler a jeho generálové využívali při porobení Evropy. Této organizaci - Abwehru - velel admirál Canaris, muž oddaný porážce nacismu, muž, jenž zosnoval první Hitlerovu porážku na diplomatickém poli a kul další pikle. Lauran Paine ve své knize popisuje události plné intrik navzájem spolupracujících, ale i tvrdě soupeřících špionážních organizací, jejich jedinečné úspěchy, ale i katastrofální nezdary. Zároveň čtenáři poskytuje ojedinělý pohled do nitra vládnoucí nacistické hierarchie a odhaluje její lstivé a kruté metody při prosazování cílů nacistické ideologie všemi dostupnými prostředky.