Sam Bass is tall and lanky, loves old western movies, wears cowboy boots and drives a beat-up Jeep Wrangler. He has a gorgeous girlfriend, Valerie, a Cherokee widow with a young son, and he’s a hot shot pilot. A hot shot pilot with a past. And when Sam makes a daring and dangerous rescue of a... read more
“If I can go out there and make a measure of justice for Valerie, he thought. if I can neutralize the threat and if I still live, then I'll think about Joshua and how I might ease his pain.”
“Cherokee was never an Indian name. We were the Tsalagi, and we went back ten thousand years to the first people who wandered here from Asia.Highlighted by 4 Kindle customers
“Life’s but a knife edge, anyway. Sooner or later a man slips and gets cut.”Highlighted by 4 Kindle customers
Elmore Leonard story Last Stand At Saber River, with Tom Selleck as a rancher fighting to reclaim his land and the love of his wife after the Civil War.Highlighted by 4 Kindle customers
the man who walks into this book store and asks the buxom young lady at the counter, “Excuse me, do you keep stationery?” “Well, right up until the end,” the young thing replies demurely, “but then I just go all to pieces.”Highlighted by 3 Kindle customers
Larry McMurtry’s Streets Of Laredo, a sequel to Lonesome Dove, about the flinty Texas Ranger Captain Coll, played by James Garner, who goes on a hunt for a blond, blue-eyed Mexican boy filled with an icy killing rage and wearing the chilling aura of a cocked pistol, loose on a murderous rampage with a scoped rifle. SissyHighlighted by 3 Kindle customers
If we had to fight against the Creek or others the Kalanu or war chief would take over, there would be a ceremony, and the warriors would vow never to stain their weapons with the blood of children or old people or those who couldn’t defend themselves.Highlighted by 3 Kindle customers
The most effective, most efficient predators ever to inhabit this planet. Killers of every other species on the planet and of each other by the millions.Highlighted by 3 Kindle customers
Every parent believes his children and their children to be special gifts to the world,Highlighted by 3 Kindle customers
Her light changed those around her, as it has changed you. So her light—her spirit—lives on.”Highlighted by 3 Kindle customers
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