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.
A defense of the actions of the vigilantes who wrestled control of Virginia City and Bannack from a gang of notorious "road agents" who terrorized the country, robbed stagecoaches and...
But it was there that he ran afoul of the vigilantes, and the story of the chase, capture, trial, and execution of Henry Plummer’s road agents surpasses the wildest imagination of any Hollywood writer.
I tap lightly on the side of the stove. A tiny scuffle below makes me want to jump on a chair. Instantly I'm annoyed with myself. I just escaped a high-security silo, swam in a river, and tried to seduce a dangerous man.
If it's time to die, Mia and Jax want to make their final days count.
In an age when crime runs rampant through the urban jungle of New York City, and the ruthless subsist by preying upon the weak, a clandestine organization of enforcers digs in its heels, and fights back.
This is the story of Montana Territory in the last half of the nineteenth century, when a massive influx of gold seekers brought murderers and robbers into the region and forced the creation of an organization of law-abiding citizens known ...
career is well described in Alice E. Smith , James Duane Doty , Frontier Promoter ( Madison : State Historical Society of Wisconsin , 1954 ) . 12. For the amazing career of Meagher see Robert G. Athearn , Thomas Francis Meagher : An ...
“Jones, you seeing this?” “Be quiet, fool,” he snaps. “Yes, I see it.” I try to remember a Jones from my Vigilante days, but it's too common a name to be memorable. Jones says nothing more but moves between me and Mia.
Winner of the 2009 Spur Award for Best First Novel by the Western Writers of America, as a "work whose inspirations, image and literary excellence best represent the reality and spirit of the American West.
This book explores the work of John Lott as territorial treasurer, author of the Vigilante Oath, and bookkeeper of the Ferreting Fund, a register of names and amounts of money donated to the Vigilantes to restore law and order.