It’s Fairbanks, Alaska, during the construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline. Alex Price, a Bethel bush pilot, is looking forward to a pleasant evening visiting his old friend and prospecting partner Stan and Stan’s lovely Athabaskan Indian wife, Angie. But his world is shattered when Stan is killed and assassins begin to stalk both Alex and Angie. On the run, trying to keep hidden, Alex tries to help Angie deal with her grief, and comes to realize how bleak his own bachelor lifestyle is. In a desperate, deadly game of cat and mouse, Alex and Angie search for the answers to two questions: who is trying to kill them? And why? Their search for answers takes them from Point Barrow to Valdez while the mysterious killers seem to keep one step ahead of them. Soon Alex and Angie realize that the slightest false step may well be be their last.
Don Porter's debut novel, Notes From a Razed Courthouse, is set in an era when America itself was coming of age. In this richly textured, provocative tale of the Old West, four young workers on the transcontinental railroad join forces to create a freight express company that promises dollars and perils in equal measure. Their dreams of wealth collide with stark reality when one of them finds himself on trial in a very unfriendly town, charged with the murder of his missing partner and facing the gallows.
We’re in Fairbanks, Alaska, during the construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline. Alex Price, a Bethel bush pilot, is looking forward to a pleasant evening, maybe catching up with his old friend and former prospecting partner Stan, and Stan’s lovely Athabascan wife Angie. But an urgent summons from Stan brings Alex to a local bar and, under his horrified gaze, to Stan’s violent death in the explosion of his vehicle. No fool, Alex perceives a possible threat to Angie. And he’s right: assassins are moving right behind him. On the run, Alex and Angie share their grief and their fury, engaging in a deadly game of cat and mouse with no idea who is trying to kill them, and why. As they move from Point Barrow to Valdez and back to Fairbanks, striving to avoid any false step, the two friends confront determined criminals and a life darkened by tragedy despite the beauty of the majestic landscape surrounding them. Don Porter, a shrewd and experienced observer, immerses you in it in this, his first novel.
Daren Chambers, wealthy owner of a car dealership in Hawaii, has been shot to death. His beautiful wife, Sally, co-owner and business partner, is terrified. She’s afraid that whoever killed Darren will be coming after her next--and she's right. She hires Dick and George, the Payne and Clark Detective Agency, to investigate the killing. The police may be working on the who, but Sally is worried about the why. The killer has the same idea, and Dick and George scramble to protect her from bombs on Oahu, stalkers on Maui, murder on the Big Island, and machine guns on Kauai.
The Family is a group of homeless people living under a bridge in Honolulu. When they discover a murder victim, Dick and George of the Payne and Clark Detective Agency reluctantly agree to take on the case pro bono and clear them of suspicion. But, where is the money belt and the hundred thousand dollars the corpse was wearing? Who are the men in long black Cadillacs suddenly following Dick and George? When the family disappears, Lt. Cochran of the Honolulu police wants to arrest Dick and George for hiding them. Maggie the receptionist is on the trail of the family when another horribly brutal murder is discovered, this one apparently committed by the family, so Maggie is in danger. Then Family takes on a whole new meaning when the Mafia gets involved and threatens Dick and George with slow painful deaths. They chase bad guys, and now six million dollars, from Las Vegas to Guam.
Sydney, a six-year-old charmer, wants to hire detectives to find her mother. Her father, Henderson, is an inmate in O triple C. (Oahu Community Correctional Center). He's scheduled to testify against the Mafia in Las Vegas, has been framed, and his life is in danger in the prison. Syd's mother has been kidnapped by prison guards who mistakenly believe that Henderson has stolen three hundred thousand dollars. Dick and George rescue the mother, but Dick is shot in the shoulder. They need ten thousand dollars to hire the notorious lawyer who will certainly spring the father. They stage a phony kidnapping to raise the money, move Maggie their receptionist to Seattle to impersonate a branch office. They get the father out of jail, and move the entourage to Seattle. Now they must get Henderson to Las Vegas in time to testify, but because Wickersham, the world's number one detective agency, has been hired to find Henderson, they dare not use a credit card.When Henderson's driver’s license number is broadcast in Bakersfield, California, George, and Maggie take off with the cars, hoping to lead the detective agency astray, leaving Dick and Henderson with very little time and very little money to get to Vegas any way they can. In the final dash, they drive a stolen cop car up the steps of the courthouse just minutes late.
A terrorist is sent to the United States. He starts cells in four cities; WMD supplies come from Syria and are distributed to the cells. On the Fourth of July celebrations, the WMD vectors are released over the four cities. The terrorist thinks that he is safe, but is caught up in another attack. 25% of the US population is killed. Retribution is swift and final.
As Alex Price bails out a friend in trouble with the Russian Mafia, readers get to ride along through the wild and wooly Alaska as it was just before the oil boom. From Bush flying to Anchorage bars, the author brings a time and place to exuberant life.
The place: the flat and frosty empty country of the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta in western Alaska. The time: not very long ago. The hero: don't call him that. He'd hate it if you called him that. All in all, bush pilot Alex Price would rather be flying, just flying. True, he had added a private investigator's license to his commercial pilot's ticket. The state troopers can always use someone they can call "Detective" in court, and serving as an extra set of eyes and ears--or an extra gun hand--for the police made a nice change from shuttling the mail and supplies to the mines and villages throughout Bushmaster Air's territory. But that was before someone began killing a few leading citizens in the tiny villages of the delta--and the clues at the murder scenes all pointed straight to Alex's best friend. Now it's up to the bush pilot to play detective for real, before things get even worse
Ball Games in Heaven" shows two balls getting hit out of their respective ball parks in Japan and the U.S. and up in heaven and meeting God where they convince God to organize some ballgames where famous players and others took part. Then there was the Devil who tried to disrupt things including bringing Robots to play against God's heavenly team. In the meantime...Jesus was sent by God to return to earth in hopes of saving earth and other planets where many leaders down there have gone as astray and betrayed the people.
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