Rope Burns

Author : Robert Scott
Publisher : Pinnacle Books
ISBN 13 : 0786038608
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rope Burns written by Robert Scott and published by Pinnacle Books . This book was released on 2014-11-14 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true crime story of a killer couple from California, their gruesome torture chamber on wheels, and the terror they left in their wake. The true story of one of the most notorious crime couples in recent American history is told. Michelle Michaud and James Daveggio forged a perverse alliance in late 1997. After customizing Michaud's minivan into a mobile torture chamber, the pair hit the road and began a nightmare spree of incest, kidnapping, rape, torture, and murder. Sixteen Pages of Shocking Photos! Michaud and Daveggio’s case was featured on Oxygen’s Snapped: Killer Couples.

Author : F. X. Toole
Publisher : Ecco
ISBN 13 : 9780060938383
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rope Burns written by F. X. Toole and published by Ecco. This book was released on 2001-09-18 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this hard-hitting collection of powerful and moving tales, F.X. Toole breathes life into vivid, compelling characters who radiate the fierce intensity of the worlds they inhabit: An aging cut man with an incorrigible sweet tooth Fearless Maggie Fitzgerald and her quest to become a champion boxer Señora Cabrera who makes low-fat refried beans to keep a local fighter in top form

Author : Jan Siebold
Publisher : Albert Whitman & Company
ISBN 13 : 0807571113
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rope Burn written by Jan Siebold and published by Albert Whitman & Company. This book was released on 2012-07-01 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard gets frustrated by most of Mr. Best's assignments, but this latest one is the worst. He has to write a composition about a proverb that illustrates something that has happened in his life. And as if that isn't bad enough, Mr. Best has told him he needs to find his "writing voice." While working on the assignment, Richard finds his voice in more ways than one. He discovers that being himself makes a big difference in his writing and in his life.

Author : Ian Probert
Publisher : Pitch Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781785312007
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rope Burns written by Ian Probert and published by Pitch Publishing. This book was released on 2017-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the true story of what can happen when an obsession takes over your life, sucks you in and spits you back out again. Set during the world of boxing in the 1980s, it is a tale littered with wasted ambition and shattered hopes; a journey through boxing that begins with the summary execution of Muhammad Ali by Larry Holmes in 1980 and ends with the spectacle of yet another young life battling for survival on the surgeon's table; as injuries sustained by boxer Michael Watson during his world title fight with Chris Eubank left him fighting for his life. It seeks to answer why a man should risk his life in the ring and why so many are compelled to watch.

Author : Robert Scott
Publisher : Kensington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780786011957
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rope Burns written by Robert Scott and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Details the disturbing true story of Michelle Michaud, a mother and occasional prostitute, and James Daveggio, a drug abuser and brutal rapist, who went on a rampage of terror from California to Nevada in their mobile torture chamber in which they violently tormented young women and killed twenty-two-year-old Vanessa Samson. Reissue.

Author : Brandon Garrett
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674970993
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book End of Its Rope written by Brandon Garrett and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-25 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, death sentences in the U.S. are as rare as lightning strikes. Brandon Garrett shows us the reasons why, and explains what the failed death penalty experiment teaches about the effect of inept lawyering, overzealous prosecution, race discrimination, wrongful convictions, and excessive punishments throughout the criminal justice system.

Author : F. X. Toole
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061860271
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pound for Pound written by F. X. Toole and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following his remarkable fiction debut, Rope Burns, author F. X. Toole's Pound for Pound is a big, brawny novel of honor, perseverance, family, and forgiveness, set in towns where violence is the norm and success stories take on an almost mythic importance. It is the story of Dan Cooley, an aging, legendary Los Angeles trainer, who takes on Chicky Garza, a troubled young fighter hungry for glory in the notoriously corrupt San Antonio boxing circuit. Written in the masterful style that has earned the author glowing comparisons to Ernest Hemingway, Raymond Carver, and Frank McCourt, this unforgettable posthumous novel celebrates a unique and powerful bond, and the courage that overcomes insurmountable obstacles in and out of the ring.

Author : F. X. Toole
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 145325398X
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Million Dollar Baby written by F. X. Toole and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The boxing stories that inspired the Oscar-winning Clint Eastwood film: a New York Times Notable Book from “a heavyweight fiction contender” (Publishers Weekly). F. X. Toole knew boxing. Between bouts, he wrote, and two years before his death he published this collection of stories, giving readers an unprecedented look at the gritty life around the ring. He tells of a cutman with a sweet tooth, young fighters with dreams of celebrity, and a talented boxer who goes to Atlantic City for his biggest bout, only to be humiliated by the prejudices of a callous promoter. In “Million $$$ Baby,” the inspiration for the Oscar-winning Clint Eastwood film, an aged trainer takes on a female fighter, guiding her through disappointment, pain, and tragedy. And in “Rope Burns,” Toole realizes his epic vision, showing that even the purest fighter can succumb to the pressures of the world outside the sport. Throughout these stories, boxing’s violence is redeemed by the respect these men and women share, as they strap on gloves and prepare their bodies for the ultimate test. This ebook features an illustrated biography of F. X. Toole including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author’s estate.

Author : Ben K. Green
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803270886
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wild Cow Tales written by Ben K. Green and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1999-08-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In thirteen stories full of rope burns and brush scratches, the author of the classic Horse Tradin? tells of the days when he made a specialty of catching wild cows. ø Ben K. Green calls himself a ?stove-up old cowboy,? and readers of this book will learn soon enough where the broken bones came from. Green tells of his adventures with wild steers, sharing with readers the years he worked in thorny brush and canyon country delivering those animals that were too wily or too wild for the normal roundup. Finding them was hard, even dangerous, work. Few cowboys looked for such chores. Green declares, ?I got real good at it, but of course in those days I didn?t know any better.?

Author : Bruce W. Most
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780994169587
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rope Burn written by Bruce W. Most and published by . This book was released on 2013-11-16 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ... A FIRST-RATE MYSTERY .... A TOP CRIME THRILLER Fear returned with a vengeance... He turned his throbbing head but the pickup was out of his range of vision. He could glimpse the trunk of a large cottonwood tree only feet away. Frantically he struggled to untie his hands. He heard the pickup shift into gear. Moments later the rope tightened unforgivingly round his neck. Fear flashed to panic as the rope squeezed his windpipe shut and he felt himself hoisted to his feet. He could hear the creak of rope drawing across wood... Ex-Detective Nick DeNunzio accepts the offer to find those behind the racket and stop the insidious trade ...his first step on a trail which brings him near to death from both his past and the present... The killer dispensed old-fashioned justice at the end of a taut rope. Questions still remain unanswered. Who murdered Jack Hooker seven years ago? Why does his death haunt this Wyoming community? Is it linked to the attractive niece running his ranch? Heading west to escape a troubled past as a big-city detective, Nick DeNunzio hires on to stop a brutal string of cattle thefts. Chasing these modern day rustlers, he soon discovers not just cows are being led to slaughter - people are turning up dead. To catch the killer before he is the next victim, Nick must unearth what happened to Hooker, confront his own dark past ...and become a cattle thief himself."