KILLER IN THE SPOTLIGHT When the Department of State and the British Government make a request, most people listen. But until he hears that his friend Jim West recommended him, one man won’t take on the job: Clint Adams, the Gunsmith. It appears that two British actors are coming to tour America, and both governments want special protection for the national treasures. But it doesn’t seem likely that two actors would need a bodyguard—until the first shot fired is a near miss. Someone is plotting to stop the tour dead in its tracks. Now, the Gunsmith must watch the audience and the actors—because he’ll need all his skill to figure out who the shooter is and why he wants them all dead… OVER 15 MILLION GUNSMITH BOOKS IN PRINT!
In the 1960s the masters of crime fiction expanded the genre’s literary and psychological possibilities with audacious new themes, forms, and subject matter—here are five of their finest works This is the first of two volumes gathering the best American crime fiction of the 1960s, nine novels of astonishing variety and inventiveness that pulse with the energies of that turbulent, transformative decade. In The Murderers (1961) by Fredric Brown, an out-of-work actor, hanging out with Beat drifters on the fringes of Hollywood, concocts a murder scheme that devolves into nightmare. This late work by a master in many genres is one of his darkest and most ingenious. Dan J. Marlowe’s The Name of the Game Is Death (1962) channels the inner life of a violent criminal who freely acknowledges the truth of a prison psychiatrist’s diagnosis: “Your values are not civilized values.” Written with unnerving emotional authenticity, the story hurtles toward an annihilating climax. Charles Williams drew on his experience in the merchant marine for his thriller Dead Calm (1963). A newlywed couple alone on a small yacht find themselves at the mercy of the mysterious survivor they have rescued from a sinking ship, in a suspenseful story that chillingly evokes the perils of the open ocean. In the beautifully told and sharply observant The Expendable Man (1963), Dorothy B. Hughes’s final masterpiece of suspense, a young man in the American Southwest runs afoul of racial assumptions after he picks up a hitchhiker who soon turns up dead. In twenty-four brilliantly constructed novels, Richard Stark (a pen name of Donald Westlake) charted the career of Parker, a hard-nosed professional thief, with rigorous clarity. The Score (1964), a stand-out in the series, finds Parker and his criminal associates hatching a plot to rob simultaneously all the jewelry stores, payroll offices, and banks in a remote Western mining town, only to come up against the human limits of even the most intricate planning. Volume features include an introduction by editor Geoffrey O'Brien (Hardboiled America), newly researched biographies of the writers and helpful notes, and an essay on textual selection.
A RUSH OF BLOOD Ike Daly may be the dirtiest man on the docks of Skagway, Alaska, but that won’t matter once he strikes gold. He owns a large claim upriver near a town called Forty Mile, but it’s too much ground for one man alone to cover. And that’s why Ike’s enlisted the help of an old friend: Clint Adams, the Gunsmith. But Ike and Clint aren’t the only ones heading north to line their pockets. Calvin Parker has plans for a mining operation near Forty Mile—plans that require hiring a deadly gunman when Parker finds out that the Gunsmith is in town. Now, one thing is certain about this gold expedition: Someone’s coming home with a belly full of lead. OVER 15 MILLION GUNSMITH BOOKS IN PRINT!
Roy F. Dunlap's classic book on making and repairing guns is reprinted here as part of Stackpole's Classic Gun Book series. Dunlap shows the skilled gunsmith how to produce professional-quality work in every phase of gunwork; included are instructions on working with metals, chamber and barrel work, and designing and crafting gunstocks. Dunlap's detailed instructions are illustrated with diagrams, drawings, and photographs of a variety of firearms.
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