Item category 1: Adventure

GENERAL & LITERARY FICTION. Jack London's two most beloved tales of survival in Alaska were inspired by his experiences in the Yukon during the Klondike Gold Rush. Both novels grippingly dramatize the harshness of the natural world and what lies beneath the thin veneer of human civilization. The ...

Set in Scotland in 1751, 'Kidnapped 'remains one of the most exciting stories ever written. Young David Balfour, orphaned then betrayed by his Uncle Ebenezer, his so-called guardian, falls in with Alan Breck, the unscrupulous but heroic champion of the Jacobite cause. Shipwreck, murder and dramat...

Western stories. In 1889, Bill Tilghman joined the historic land rush that transformed a raw frontier into Oklahoma Territory. A lawman by trade, he set aside his badge to make his fortune in the boomtowns. Yet Tilghman was called into service once more, on a bold, relentless manhunt that would m...

Jack and Stephen are dispatched to restore order after popular unrest unseats New South Wales Governor William Bligh, the ill-fated captain of the mutinous Bounty. Through doldrums and mighty storms, the gallant Leopard sails south to the treacherous waters of the Antarctic, at risk not only from...

With England at peace following the Treaty of Amiens, Jack and Stephen settle down to enjoy the lives of country gentlemen - hunting, entertaining and pursuing more amorous adventures. But life on shore includes its own perils; seemingly overnight, Jack is reduced to a pauper with enough debts to...

Autumn 1941. A U-boat is on a hazardous patrol in the Battle of the Atlantic, but the tide is beginning to turn against the Germans. As the U-boat is forced to hide beneath the surface of the sea, the increasing claustrophobia of the submarine becomes an enemy as frightening as any depth charge.

Western. Bull-headed, ornery and straight-shooting, the Wileys were a part of the American West that refused to be forgotten.

It is June 1941 and Denmark is under German occupation. On the rocky coast, two brothers, Harald and Arne Olufsen, starkly different in nature, are straining against the rigid confines imposed by their austere, elderly parents and trying to find their own way in life.

Frederic Henry is an American Lieutenant serving in the ambulance corps of the Italian army during the First World War. While stationed in northern Italy, he falls in love with Catherine Barkley, an English nurse. Theirs is an intense, tender and passionate love affair overshadowed by the war.

During midnight mass, the massive gothic cathedral in Cologne, Germany is ransacked by armed monks, ancient relics are stolen, and hundreds of people are murdered. The Vatican secretly requests assistance from the U.S. Dept. of Defense Sigma Force. Commander Gray Pierce and his team begin a harro...

Arroyo Blanco County was a powder keg of resentment and potential murder. The scorching sun and deadly drought were felling the cattle like flies and, very soon, Adam Guthrie was going to have to foreclose on the bedeviled ranchers. One man stood between Guthrie and the lynch-crazy ranchers: Sher...

The heart of the American West lives in Peter Dawson's stories, with characters that blaze a trail over a land of frontier dreams and nightmares and across a country coming of age. Sometimes, as in A Tinhorn Takes a Tank Town, the conflict has to do with murder and power. In Unwanted Gold, it is ...

Since being pressed into service, John Pearce has endured a hectic whirlwind of events, facing wild storms at sea and bitter battles with the enemy. His recent, surprising promotion means that he is now finally free to follow his own wishes, rather than being forced to serve in King George's Navy...

Western stories. Fargo Reilly arrives in the town of Verdad de Soleil just as the local rancher, Lucas Carter, looks set to tighten his stranglehold. Reilly seems like a harmless drifter, but after demonstrating his skill with a Colt on Carter's son and thrashing the hulking ranch foreman, things...

In 1893, inspired by their hero, master sleuth Sherlock Holmes, two cowboys, Big Red and Old Red Amlingmeyer, put their detecting skills to use to uncover the truth about the murder of a ranch hand on their Montana cattle ranch.

Western stories. The stage to Cooper's Creek was overdue. It had left Tombstone on time, called at Silverton, and then set out on the last leg with two passengers on board and money for the local bank. But it never arrived. It just vanished. Marshal Willard was a federal man and he soon stumbled ...

Max Brand trio comprise the story of Tom Fernald, a poverty-stricken sheepherder whose smallholding is mortgaged to the unscrupulous money-lender Pete Visconti. Bill Ransome knows that Fernald has just negotiated the sale of a sheep herd and steals the money at gun point. Visconti feels only cont...

It's 318 BC in the deserts of Libya, and Alexander the Great is buried as only a God should be, placed in a Crystal Sarcophagus in a catacomb of chambers, each packed with diamonds, rubies and gold. This was how he should have remained, but time waits for no-one.

WESTERNS. Most bounty hunters operated within the law to bring their quarries back to justice 'dead or alive'. But for Big Jack Corrigan, however, it had to be dead every time - and the law took objection to that.So when Corrigan and his henchmen set off in pursuit of bank robber and killer Pearl...

Western stories. Ned Butler had been hired by some folks to guide them across the desert known as the Cauldron, but then Jess Fuller put a bullet into Ned. Into this maelstrom came the renegade Link Hauser who tossed some dynamite into the works, and a mad miner. Before too long Link Hauser and h...

WESTERNS. James Deadwood is a legend, a man with a reputation for always bringing his quarry to justice - usually in a pine box. But within hours of riding into the hell town of Autumn Pass, an ambush leaves him a bullet-ridden corpse.Sent to investigate the death of the "fastest gun in the West,...

Prairie Guns is set on the plains of Colorado. Homesteaders have taken up land on vast areas that were formerly free range for cattle baron Colton Miller. Bent Ander in Mon from Durango had to leave Texas in a hurry following a gun battle with a belligerent freighter. Several years of living belo...

Years ago, an ancient Phoenician statue known as the Navigator was stolen from the Baghdad Museum, and there are men who would do anything to get their hands on it. The first victim is a crooked antiquities dealer, murdered in cold blood. Their second very nearly is a UN investigator who, were it...

Three of Max Brand's finest short novels appear in book form for the first time. In The Low Dodger of Windy Creek, Sam Leader was falsely accused of murder, but makes a daring escape - and suddenly posses are on his trail. In Trail of the Eagle, Barney Dwyer helped Len Peary escape from jail, but...

'The Quest' continues the story of the warlock, Taita, wise in the lore of the ancient Gods and a master of magic and the supernatural. Egypt is struck by a series of terrible plagues that cripple the Kingdom, and then the ultimate disaster follows. The Nile fails. The waters that nourish and sus...

Pressed into King George's Navy for the second time in a month, John Pearce and his comrades, the Pelicans, find themselves working aboard HMS Griffin, a slow and overcrowded ship, sailing the Channel in search of the numerous French privateers that prey on English merchant shipping. Her task: to...