The Whip Hand
Author | : Nadine Browne |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781925164152 |
Who holds the whip hand? From a young mother stealing back her child to a disillusioned lover seeking revenge with a potion, from house cleaners contemplating a life of crime to a woman parting ways with Jesus, these are stories of people living on the edge. In their collections 'The Returning' and 'Playing Dead', Mihaela Nicolescu and Nadine Browne illuminate the complexity of the everyday with compassionate but unflinching accounts of the ways in which people gain, lose or reclaim control of their lives.
The Whip Hand
Author | : William W. Johnstone |
Publisher | : Pinnacle |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2024-06-25 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0786050489 |
JOHNSTONE COUNTRY. THE ULTIMATE KILLING GROUND. There a million ways to die in the Black Hills of Dakota Territory—but only one way to make it out alive if your name is Buchanan: with guns blazing . . . THE HILLS HAVE EYES The Buchanans are no strangers to hard times—or making hard choices. After losing a hefty number of livestock to a killer grizzly, Hunter Buchanan is forced to sell a dozen broncs down in Denver for some badly needed cash. Everything goes smoothly—until he’s ambushed on the way home. The culprits are a murderous bunch of prairie rat outlaws, as dangerous as any Buchanan has ever tangled with. But Hunter is hell-bent on getting his money back. Even if means pursuing the thieves into Dakota Territory—where even deadlier dangers await . . . Meanwhile, Angus Buchanan has agreed to guide three former Confederate bounty hunters into the Black Hills, on the trail of six cutthroats who robbed a saloon and killed two men in Deadwood. This motley trio of hunters are as cutthroat as the cutthroats they’re after. And it doesn’t take long for Angus to realize they mean to slaughter him as well at the end of the trail . . . One family of ranchers. Two groups of cold-hearted murderers. So many ways to die.
The Whip Hand
Author | : Samuel Merwin |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 2020-08-06 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3752421029 |
Reproduction of the original: The Whip Hand by Samuel Merwin
The Whip Hand
Author | : Douglas Maxwell |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 107 |
Release | : 2017-09-28 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1786822431 |
It’s Dougie’s birthday. He just turned 50 and his family are throwing him a party. But it’s he who has a surprise for them. A bombshell proposal. He wants his ex-wife Arlene to back his new endeavour. He wants to serve a good cause, a global cause. He wants to make right a terrible wrong, even if it puts their daughter’s future at risk. An explosive new play about power, privilege, blood ties and our inescapable past.
The Whip Hand
Author | : Victor Canning |
Publisher | : Canelo |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2021-06-07 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1800324200 |
A 1960s London PI’s search for a missing au pair leads to sinister evil in this classic spy series opener by the author of The Rainbird Pattern. Meet Rex Carver, the suave and laconic private investigator. His job is to track down a German au pair, Katerina Saxmann, who has gone missing in Brighton. But when the security services show up at his apartment within hours of him accepting the assignment, he realizes there is far more going on. As the search leads Carver around the pleasure spots of Europe, the investigation, and his feelings for Katerina, get more complicated. But when a specter from the continent’s past rears its head, Rex discovers he might be in too deep . . . With cut-glass dialogue and panache in spades, Rex Carver is the James Bond of private investigators, perfect for fans of John le Carré and Ian Fleming. Praise for the writing of Victor Canning: “Mr. Canning’s inventiveness never flags for a moment.” —The Daily Telegraph
The Whip Hand: A Tale of the Pine Country
Author | : Samuel Merwin |
Publisher | : DigiCat |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 2022-09-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
The Whip Hand is a classic western frontier adventure featuring young Captain Halloran of the Evanston crew of young boy sailors. Excerpt: "Sure he's dreaming. They haven't been gone twenty minutes. What's the matter with you!" Yes, it is only twenty minutes; and there is a weary, bitter hour yet for the poor devils before they may set foot on land. Another song is the cry, and more wood—heap her up! Again Apples mounts his grim perch—the head- and footstone of half a dozen forgotten sailors—and marches the "Grand Old Duke of York" up the hill, and marches him down again..."
Whip Hand
Author | : G. C. Scott |
Publisher | : Virgin Pub |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780352336941 |
Richard and his German girlfriend Helena continue to live out their private passion play of bondage and SM, with all the elaborate touches that their rural life can afford. And with the arrival of Helena's foster-mother, Ingrid, it becomes a family affair. Even Helena's imperious aunt Margaret no longer wants to spoil the party - or does she? As Richard's tame dominatrix she seems to want nothing more than to join in their fantasies. But can Richard be sure that she doesn't want to keep him all to herself? The latest in G.C. Scott's powerful series of novels about the realities of domination and submission