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Spider #38, November 1936 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 212min

Looting, murdering bands of desperadoes roamed the streets of New York like wanton jackals who destroyed what they could not devour. An underworld Juggernaut had been unleashed upon Manhattan, turning it into a place of desolation and terror. The Thuggees of the East, those masters of murder, the cruel minions of Tang-akhmut, held the city in a state of siege. One man could save New York - Richard Wentworth, the avenging Spider, and Richard Wentworth, hunted by the police, hated by the underworld he fought, had been ordered shot on sight! The great pulp magazines of the 1930s and 40s produced many heroes, but none as action-oriented as the Spider. From October 1933 to December 1943, the Spider was the scourge of the Underworld, doling out his own particular brand of justice and imprinting his dreaded red Spider seal on the foreheads of those he has killed for the good of mankind. The Spider followed the established pulp pattern of a wealthy man-about-town, Richard Wentworth III, master of disguise, dilettante of the arts, in perfect physical condition, and completely devoted to the pursuit of justice for the down-trodden. Secretly donning a decrepit black hat, a tattered black cape, a false hunch to his shoulders, a lank wig of stringy hair, an application of sinister face makeup and a pair of .45 automatics, Wentworth prowls the streets of New York as his alter-ego the Spider, chasing down criminal masterminds bent on enslaving or destroying humanity. Nick Santa Maria takes on the dual persona of Richard Wentworth and his arachnid alter-ego for this nail-biting audio rendition of City of Dreadful Night. Originally published in The Spider magazine, November, 1936. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nick Santa Maria. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/088970/bk_acx0_088970_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Strange Pursuit - The Marshal of Sentinel - Booty for a Bad Man (Dramatized), Hörbuch, Digital, 183min

Strange Pursuit: Bowdrie wants Charlie Venk. Shrewd and intelligent, Venk is riding hard on the sorrel he's stolen right out from under another man. His good looks, fast gun, and reckless wit have already made him a legend. So Bowdrie has to be smarter, faster - and more relentless - in tracking his prey across dusty cowtowns, barren desert landscapes, and through the canyons and pine forests of northern Arizona into deadly Apache territory. "The Marshal of Sentinel": Tough and vicious, the Fred Henry Gang had been robbing banks all along the stage route from Santa Fe to Tularosa. It was only a matter of time before they hit the sleepy town of Sentinel, and Marshal Fitz Moore knew that day had come. But when Julia Heath appeared out of the blue to raise the spectre of the past he had a desperate and delicate situation on his hands. Now the Marshal had to foil a bank robbery, prevent a bloodbath, and pray that the lovely young lady would fathom the quick, cruel violence of the savage frontier and find forgiveness in her heart. "Booty for a Bad Man": Tell Sackett knew that gold spelled trouble faster than anything except a woman, and he had a lot of gold. Problem was, none of it was his. Tell was just delivering the gold for a fee. And now the Coopers, a gang of bloodthirsty desperadoes, were hot on his trail.So the last thing Tell needed was Christine Mallory to slow him down. But to leave her in the desert was to leave her to die. As Tell Sackett's father used to say, "Women are trouble". Tell was about to learn what he meant. Language: English. Narrator: full cast. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/003499/bk_rand_003499_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Man-Hunters of the Old West , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 639min

Settlers in the frontier West were often easy prey for criminals. Policing efforts were scattered at best and often amounted to vigilante retaliation. To create a semblance of order, freelance enforcers of the law known as man-hunters undertook the search for fugitives. These pursuers have often been portrayed as ruthless bounty hunters, no better than the felons they pursued. Robert K. DeArment's detailed account of their careers redeems their reputations and reveals the truth behind their fascinating legends. As DeArment shows, man-hunters were far more likely to capture felons alive than their popular image suggests. Although "Wanted: Dead or Alive" reward notices were posted during this period, they were reserved for the most murderous desperadoes. Man-hunters also came from a variety of backgrounds in the East and the West: of the eight men whose stories DeArment tells, one began as an officer for an express company, and another was the head of an organization of local lawmen. Others included a railroad detective, a Texas Ranger, a Pinkerton operative, and a shotgun messenger for a stagecoach line. All were tough survivors, living through gunshot wounds, snakebites, disease, buffalo stampedes, and every other hazard of life in the Wild West. They also crossed paths with famous criminals and sheriffs, from John Wesley Hardin and Sam Bass to Wyatt Earp, Butch Cassidy, and the Sundance Kid. Telling the true stories of famous men who risked their lives to bring western outlaws to justice, Man-Hunters of the Old West dispels long-held myths of their cold-blooded vigilantism and brings fresh nuance to the lives and legends that made the West wild. The book is published by University of Oklahoma Press. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Thomas Stone. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/094422/bk_acx0_094422_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Last Desperados: Xenophobia, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 541min

Historical fiction is a literary genre in which the plot takes place in a setting located in the past, so let's travel back to a time when California began and Californio ended. Hear the lost stories of desperate cowboys that were on the run for survival. This novel is based on true stories of love and loss, brotherhood and family. These men were branded as bandits and outlaws by the new government that they suddenly lived under. Those that labeled them as such failed to mention the injustice being done to them, such as the 10,000 heads of households who were killed. They were executed for not understanding the new laws, written in a foreign language, that specifically targeted them. These actions forced them to retaliate. They were left with no choice but to become desperadoes yet were revered by the natives as fighters of freedom. Chile was a guitarist, expert dancer, as well as charming and well educated. He could read and write in the language of the new government yet found himself alienated from the life he had planned. Chile transformed himself from being labeled as a broken thief, to a respected Captain and a friend to other desperados. He showed them how to succeed on the run for 23 years, while trying to survive in a world that was stacked against them. They were fighting a wild fire they couldn’t control. The desperados were unable to settle down and could not have the wives and the families that they wanted. Chile always seemed to find love, but it always had to end. His love life led to a series of failures that broke his heart. He finally found a woman that may have changed it all. Was she the one, or would it be another mistake ending in disaster? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Susan McGurl. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/228473/bk_acx0_228473_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Good Day to Die: Tales of the Frontier, Volume 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 209min

From the author who brought you The Dead Never Sleep, Key West Redemption, and the thrilling Key West Extraction comes a gripping tale of uncensored conflict in the old West. This book is a non-ending, primal battle for survival. Savage Shoshone, Crow, Blackfoot and Sioux warriors brutally clash with encroaching cowboys and buffalo hunters. All of them intent upon claiming this vast wilderness as their own. See the fledgling town of Big Sky Montana grow before your very eyes. Dance hall girls, card swindlers, and humble townsfolk face the constant danger of shootouts and bank robberies with stoic resolve. For you see, on the frontier, death is always your next door neighbor. Yes, this is a savage land where evil, depraved gunslingers rob and kill for the sheer pleasure of the deed. The ruthless strong unyieldingly crush everything under their spur-covered feet and never think twice about the aftermath. Yet sometimes those soulless desperadoes kill the wrong man. Ed Colstock was a tired gunman who had lost count of all the dead he had left along the twisted streets of his life. His ruthless reputation drove him deeper and deeper into the untamed frontier. Searching for peace and obscurity, he traveled alone with his unwanted past. Colstock was sick of all the carnage and death that constantly haunted him. Ed doggedly kept looking for a place where he could finally hang up his guns and, hopefully, start over. But sometimes you have to kill again in order to protect that precious dream your heart desperately craves. Death rides unbridled, in a posse hell-bent on revenge. Onward they rode, recklessly forward they galloped, on into no man’s land. The gunman. The rancher. And the Texas Ranger who had his own score to settle with the notorious Gene Brady. It was one last bloody ride for all of them. Kill or be killed. Winner take all. Death in the desert. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ellery Truesdell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/114023/bk_acx0_114023_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Zane Grey Library, Volume 1 (Annotated) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 2796min

This Raging Bull Publishing bundle contains four classic Western audiobooks by Zane Grey, including:Betty Zane (1903)Inspired by the life and adventures of his own great-great-grandmother, Betty Zane was Zane Grey's first novel, and it launched his career as a master writer of rousing frontier and Western adventures.Betty Zane is the story of the events culminating in the last battle of the American Revolution, when 200 Redcoats from British-controlled Detroit along with 400 Shawnee Indians attacked the small, wood-palisaded Fort Henry on the Western frontier. The heroine of the battle - a young, spunky, and beautiful frontier girl - was Betty Zane.Desert Gold (1913)The story describes the recent uprising along the border and ends with the finding of the gold that two prospectors had willed to the girl who is the story's heroine.Riders of the Purple Sage (1912)Riders of the Purple Sage tells the story of Jane Withersteen and her battle to overcome her persecution by members of her church. Throughout most of the novel, she struggles with her "blindness" in seeing the evil nature of her church and its leaders, trying to keep both Venters and Lassiter from killing her adversaries, who are slowly ruining her.The Border Legion (1916)Jack Kells was a remorseless killer, head of a gang that ravaged the Southern border. He didn't think twice before he kidnapped pretty Joan Randle on a lonesome Idaho trail. His cold eyes filled her with fear, but her goodness made something happen deep within him. Bad as he was, he knew he had to keep Joan safe from desperadoes far worse than he. Kells had a price on his head and on his heels. Now, loving this woman could cost him his life...or it could make him a hero in this wild, dangerous land.Visit ragingbullpublishing.com - The home of Westerns. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: William Mark Woelfle. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/121592/bk_acx0_121592_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 544min

From New Yorker staff writer David Grann, New York Times best-selling author of The Lost City of Z, a twisting, haunting true-life murder mystery about one of the most monstrous crimes in American history. In the 1920s the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, they rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe. Then, one by one, the Osage began to be killed off. The family of an Osage woman, Mollie Burkhart, became a prime target. Her relatives were shot and poisoned. And it was just the beginning, as more and more members of the tribe began to die under mysterious circumstances. In this last remnant of the Wild West - where oilmen like J. P. Getty made their fortunes and where desperadoes like Al Spencer, the "Phantom Terror", roamed - many of those who dared to investigate the killings were themselves murdered. As the death toll climbed to more than 24, the FBI took up the case. It was one of the organization's first major homicide investigations, and the bureau badly bungled the case. In desperation the young director, J. Edgar Hoover, turned to a former Texas Ranger named Tom White to unravel the mystery. White put together an undercover team, including one of the only American Indian agents in the bureau. The agents infiltrated the region, struggling to adopt the latest techniques of detection. Together with the Osage they began to expose one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history. In Killers of the Flower Moon, David Grann revisits a shocking series of crimes in which dozens of people were murdered in cold blood. Based on years of research and startling new evidence, the book is a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction, as each step in the investigation reveals a series of sinister secrets and reversals. But more than that, it is a se ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Will Patton, Ann Marie Lee, Danny Campbell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/004875/bk_rand_004875_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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