Enraged by the actions of ruthless hired gun Holt Danvers in killing rancher Frank Carver and leaving his young daughter Mary on the verge of death, flamboyant Mexican bandit Zococa and his mute Apache sidekick Tahoka vow vengeance. After leaving the severely injured Mary in the care of the monks at San Maria mission, Zococa and his silent friend ride in pursuit of Danvers. The trail leads to the lawless town of Diablo. Can Zococa honour his vow before the giant Tahoka wreaks his own brand of Apache vengeance?
Flamboyant Mexican bandit Zococa and his mute sidekick Tahoka are hired by Don Pedro Sanchez, the ruler of the mysterious territory of El Sanchez, to escort a valuable and precious cargo - his daughter - safely back to him. But what seems a simple and profitable task soon turns out to be a perilous journey through Apache land. What makes the journey even more dangerous is the fact that Don Pedro's ruthless sibling is intent on killing her before she reaches the safety of El Sanchez. It will take every scrap of the bandit's cunning and courage to achieve their goal.
Action thriller by the classic adventure writer set in Norway and Finland. When Giles Denison of Hampstead wakes up in an Oslo hotel room and finds the face looking back at him in the mirror is not his own, things could surely get no more bizarre. But it is only the beginning of a hair-raising adventure in which Denison finds himself trapped with no way to escape. One false move and the whole delicately balanced power structure between East and West will come toppling down...
Acclaimed Western writer Zane Grey used the Wild West as his creative palette. The novel The Rustlers of Pecos County focuses on the hard-living, hard-working cowboys and wranglers who cared for livestock -- and sometimes obtained the animals by nefarious means -- on the wide open plains of Texas.
He had killed his best friend, and now the howling mob aimed to string him up. It was an accident, of course, but that didn’t make it any better. Somehow, he had to escape the noose, and just hope that one day he could live with himself again. But how far can run from one’s past and the hangman?
A bandit town in the Arizona badlands, and the scum of the border who lived there feared nothing. Governor Bleke wanted-the place stomped out. It took a particular kind of man to go in there alone; a man as mercilessly fast with his guns as any lone rider on the owlhoot trail. Bleke knew of only one man who could do the job: Sudden!
How did Indian banking protect itself from the Lehman Crash? What nearly wiped out the MFI sector in India? Why are public-sector banks suffering from so many non-performing assets? What is the conflict between the RBI and the finance ministry? From Lehman to Demonetization is the epic story of banking in India in the last decade. The years from 2007-17 were the most tumultuous and exciting years of this sector. It saw D. Subbarao, Raghuram Rajan and Urijit Patel as RBI governors working with finance ministers Pranab Mukherjee, P. Chidambaram and Arun Jaitley. What a decade it has been-from India's first MFI, SKS Microfinance, getting listed to the near death of the industry; the RBI giving the nod for twenty-three banks and becoming an inflation targeter; from 9 per cent economic growth for three years to the jolt of demonetization. These essays make for a riveting read. The book also features interviews with the who's who of this sector, including Deepak Parkeh, K.V. Kamath, Arundhati Bhattacharya, Chanda Kochchar, Aditya Puri, Shikha Sharma, Raghuram Rajan, U.K. Sinha and Viral Acharya. If you had to read one book on banking in India, this would be it!
The man’s hands were bound. From a branch overhead dangled a lariat, the end in the hands of two burly men. Someone was raising a hand as a signal when Sudden stepped forward, guns drawn. ‘Mebbe one of you will tell me what’s goin’ on?’ he suggested. ‘We’re stringing up a cattle thief,’ a broken-nosed man snarled. ‘Ain’t that plain enough?’ ‘What’s your name?’ Sudden asked quietly. ‘Lanty,’ the man replied. ‘What’s that to you?’ Sudden grinned, a cold and mirthless grin. ‘I might need it for your tombstone.’
