Serial Vigilantes Of Paperback Fiction

Author : Bradley Mengel
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 078645475X
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Serial Vigilantes of Paperback Fiction written by Bradley Mengel and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2009-10-21 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rough justice has often been served in the pages of serial novels, notably beginning with Don Pendleton's The Executioner in 1969. This is the first overview of the serial vigilante genre, which featured such hard-boiled protagonists as Nick Carter, Mark Stone, Jake Brand and Able Team among the 130 series that followed Pendleton's novel. Serial vigilantes repeatedly take the law into their own hands, establishing and imposing their own moral standards, usually by force. The book examines the connections between the serial vigilante and the pulp hero that preceded him and how the serial vigilante has influenced a variety of tough guys, private eyes, spies and cops in different media. A complete bibliography for each series is featured.

Author : Jon Messmann
Publisher : Brash Books
ISBN 13 : 9781954841178
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Revenger written by Jon Messmann and published by Brash Books. This book was released on 2022-02-12 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic 1970s vigilante series is back... for the first time in nearly fifty years. Ben Martin is a married, Vietnam vet who opens a produce wholesale business in New York City. Life is good until he's threatened by mobsters, who demand protection money from him to continue doing business. But they soon discover that they are the ones who need protection...from him. Instead of backing off, the mob retaliates, leading to bloodshed and tragedy, and spurring Martin into a one-man war on crime that could cost him his soul and his life. "This book works exceptionally well. Ben is a believable action hero. He's not just a good guy with a gun. The breakdown from decent man to cold assassin is a slow burn, but a morbidly entertaining one. A stand-out series." Paperback Warrior "Martin, while capable of violent action, is more introspective than many of his fellow Mafia busters." Serial Vigilantes Of Paperback Fiction "Messmann keeps it real. Martin is prone to a lot of soul-searching. At his core, though, he's still a 'specialist in death' who pulled off so many assassinations in Vietnam that he became legendary. Highly recommended." Glorious Trash This new edition features an Afterword by Eric Compton, co-host of the Paperback Warrior podcast.

Author : W.E.B. Griffin
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0515149594
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Vigilantes written by W.E.B. Griffin and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-06-28 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Murders are on the rise in Philadelphia-but no one seems to mind because the victims are all fugitives with histories of heinous sex crimes against women and children. Worse for Homicide Sergeant Matt Payne, the main suspect is leaving evidence for police to find. But when copycat killings start popping up due to vigilante groups dealing out their own justice, Payne must find out who's behind the chaos before the violence overtakes the city.

Author : Kevin Grant
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476638683
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vigilantes written by Kevin Grant and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-01-03 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many people, the cinematic vigilante has been shaped by Charles Bronson's character in Death Wish and its sequels. But screen vigilantes have taken many guises, from Old West lynch mobs and rogue police officers to rape-avengers and military-trained equalizers. This book recounts the varied representations of such characters in films like The Birth of a Nation, which celebrated the violence of the Ku Klux Klan, and Taxi Driver, Falling Down and You Were Never Really Here, in which the vigilante impulse was symptomatic of mental instability. Also considered is the extent to which fictional vigilantism functions as social commentary and to what degree it is simply stoking popular fears.

Author : Annie Winters
Publisher : Casey Shay Press
ISBN 13 : 1938150368
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Vigilante's Lover written by Annie Winters and published by Casey Shay Press. This book was released on 2015-01-13 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mia trembles as she reads the letter that arrives from Ridley Prison. The man is a stranger. His words are desperate and passionate. He describes crazy acts Mia has never experienced or known. A thrill zips through her. Should she write him back? She reads it again. Rope ties. Seduction. He longs for some other woman -- she must have given him a fake address. Mia’s address. She should throw it away, or at least return it. After all, he’s a convicted felon. But his words gnaw at her. She’s never done anything dangerous. And no man has ever talked to her like this. So Mia writes him, pretending to be the woman he desires. It's her one dark thrill in her dull, solitary small-town life. The man is in prison for another fifteen years. It's harmless. She is safe enough. Until he escapes. _______ This romantic suspense series is COMPLETE with four volumes.

Author : Vincent S. Anderson
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625846703
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bald Knobbers written by Vincent S. Anderson and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009-09-15 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This account of nineteenth-century Missouri vigilantes is “a first rate adventure story [and] an extremely valuable study of the roots of violence in America” (Gary Paulsen, Newbery Medal–winning author of Hatchet). In the 1880s, the Ozark hills around Taney County, Missouri, echoed with the sound of Winchester rifles. Men were lynched from tree limbs by masked night riders. Bundles of switches were tossed on the porches of “loose” men and women as a grim warning to reform or leave the area. This action-filled saga of the notorious eight-year career of the vigilantes is the most comprehensive account of the Bald Knobber era. It traces the roots of the group in the region’s border struggles during the Civil War, and examines the organization of anti-Bald Knobbers which sprang up to oppose them. Giant Nat Kinney founded the Bald Knobbers, and led them in their violent campaign for law and order. Andrew Coggburn wrote satirical songs to infuriate Kinney and the others. Seventeen-year-old Billy Walker murdered an innocent family and was hanged by the beleaguered authorities. Five opponents of the Bald Knobbers vowed to kill Nat Kinney, and played cards to decide who would do the deed. This book, with photos and illustrations, provides “the most accurate accounting to date of this vigilante group” (Springfield (MO) News-Leader). “Has the sweep and drama of a major novel, with the power and authority of historical truth.” —Loren D. Estleman, Shamus Award-winning author of Monkey in the Middle “Meticulously detailed and carefully constructed . . . fills a gap in the recorded history of Missouri.” —The Kansas City Star

Author : J. C. Hone
Publisher : Bookstand Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781618638380
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Vigilante Hunters written by J. C. Hone and published by Bookstand Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-13 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LAPD Robbery-Homicide detectives track a diabolical serial killer dubbed, "The Vigilante." Up until now, he has only killed reprehensible criminals who have cleverly escaped justice. As the body count rises, so does the pressure to solve the case. With the task force closing in, the vigilante must cross the line and kill just to keep his identity a secret.

Author : Bob Calhoun
Publisher : ECW Press
ISBN 13 : 1773056840
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Murders That Made Us written by Bob Calhoun and published by ECW Press. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 170-year history of the San Francisco Bay Area told through its crimes and how they intertwine with the city’s art, music, and politics In The Murders That Made Us, the story of the San Francisco Bay Area unfolds through its most violent and depraved acts. From its earliest days when vigilantes hung perps from downtown buildings to the Zodiac Killer and the kidnapping of Patty Hearst, murder and mayhem have shaped the city into the political and economic force that she is today. The Great 1906 Earthquake shook a city that was already teetering on the brink of a massive prostitution scandal. The Summer of Love ended with a pair of ghastly drug dealer slayings that sent Charles Manson packing for Los Angeles. The 1970s come crashing down with the double tragedy of Jonestown and the assassination of Gay icon Harvey Milk by an ex-cop. And the 21st Century rise of California Governor Gavin Newsom, Trump insider Kimberly Guilfoyle, and Vice President Kamala Harris is told through a brutal dog-mauling case and the absurdity called Fajitagate. It’s a 170-year saga of madness, corruption, and death revealed here one crime at a time.

Author : Nader Elhefnawy
Publisher : Nader Elhefnawy
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Paramilitary Action-Adventure Fiction written by Nader Elhefnawy and published by Nader Elhefnawy. This book was released on 2020-02-16 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are all familiar with the idea of the action hero as a latterday avenger with a gun—Dirty Harry, Chuck Norris' screen heroes, Rambo. Yet, how did the idea of such heroes emerge in the first place? Why did it explode as it did in the 1970s and, still more, the 1980s, defining the Hollywood action films of that decade? And why did it fall out of fashion? PARAMILITARY ACTION-ADVENTURE FICTION: A HISTORY examines all these questions, and much more, as it traces the rise of paramilitary action heroes in the tensions and fears underlying the civil image of the nineteenth century, through the stresses of the world wars and the Cold War, to the emergence by the 1960s of commandos fighting undeclared wars on the streets of urban America—and the evolution of that image in the half century since.

Author : Nicolas S. Witschi
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118652517
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American West written by Nicolas S. Witschi and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-02-03 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American West presents a series of essays that explore the historic and contemporary cultural expressions rooted in America's western states. Offers a comprehensive approach to the wide range of cultural expressions originating in the west Focuses on the intersections, complexities, and challenges found within and between the different historical and cultural groups that define the west's various distinctive regions Addresses traditionally familiar icons and ideas about the west (such as cowboys, wide-open spaces, and violence) and their intersections with urbanization and other regional complexities Features essays written by many of the leading scholars in western American cultural studies