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Doc Savage novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Prof. Brandt Savage--grandson of the legendary action hero--is forced into a top-secret training program where he discovers his true calling...as the perfect assassin. Dr. Brandt Savage is on sabbatical from the University of Chicago. Instead of doing solo fieldwork in anthropology, the gawky, bespectacled PhD finds himself enrolled in a school where he is the sole pupil. His professor, "Meed," is demanding. She's also his captor. Savage emerges...
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English
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"At the Texas Rose Saloon, you can bet your bottom dollar that some lowlife will try to cheat you, beat you, or defeat you. But bar owner Ben Savage won't let a few bad customers ruin a good time. And he's got the guns to prove it... Located in the bullet-riddled heart of Texas, the Texas Rose Saloon in the town of Buzzard's Bluff, is a magnet for drifters, grifters, and outlaws on the run. That's why the bar's manager, the beautiful Rachel Baskin,...
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Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
289 p. : 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Someone is brutally murdering John Savage's cowhands. When he learns it's none other than Fergus Blanchett, the brother of an outlaw he once killed, John realizes what he's up against. Fergus always wanted his brother's wife, Emma. Blinded by love and desperation, he kidnaps her daughter, Eva, and takes her on a deadly crime spree. As Fergus leads him on a mad chase, John finds himself falling for Emma, too. And John realizes he must stop this murderous...
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Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
291 p ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
They struck without warning, eight greedy men who chose to live by the gun, ending eleven lives in a hail of bullets and brutality. They filled their pockets with gold dust mined by their victims and disappeared after the slaughter. John Savage watched helplessly from the safety of the mine as the outlaws gunned down his friends and family. He heard their names. He memorized their faces. Now, armed with the pearl-handled Colt pistol his father left...
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Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
287 p ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Life means nothing to Ollie Hobart. He has no qualms about gunning down unarmed people in his pursuit of wealth -- or leaving his fellow outlaws behind to pay the price for his crimes. He's even willing to incite a war between the U.S. Cavalry and the Indian nations on the Western plains of it will line his pockets with gold. But John Savage witnessed Hobart's gang murder his parents, and he's been hunting them down ever since. His fury will not be...
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Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
305 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
They don't fear killing, dying ... or any man's law. From Illinois to Colorado, they've carved out their own personal hunting ground through terror and bone-cold viciousness. John Savage has destroyed the gang that murdered his family. Now he wants to work the land his kin died for -- and find some measure of peace. But his desire for just retribution is now a dark compulsion Savage cannot shake.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1158
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (128 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in..
Language
English
Description
Jane Campion returns to the kind of mythic frontier landscape—pulsating with both freedom and menace—that she previously traversed in The Piano in order to plumb the masculine psyche in The Power of the Dog, set against the desolate plains of 1920s Montana and adapted by the filmmaker from Thomas Savage’s novel. After a sensitive widow (Kirsten Dunst) and her enigmatic, fiercely loving son (Kodi Smit-McPhee) move in with her gentle new husband...
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Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
287 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ollie Hobart has murdered his way from Colorado to Arizona, lining his pockets with gold along the way. He has outlived every bandit who has ridden with him, always staying one step ahead of the law. Now allied with a band of renegade Navajos, he believes no one can stop him. But John Savage lost his family in a hail of gunfire from the merciless killer. He has taken his revenge on every member of Hobart's gang, and he's sworn that Hobart will not...
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