Clayton: 792 books

A murdered blackmailer haunts a captain of industry When Ross Harte gets into a screaming match with his fiancée’s father, millionaire Dudley Wolff, the old man cuts Harte’s beloved out of his will. As far as Wolff is concerned, this is an empty threat, because he plans to live forever....

Trapped in a dead man’s office, Don Diavolo plans his greatest escape This collection brings together two adventures with Don Diavolo, the Scarlet Wizard. The first opens in his machinist’s workshop, where Diavolo perfects his newest feat: the Escape from the Double Crystal Water...

Kiki Russell is the hottest sniper in the U. S. Army. She has been hurting the extremist so badly they have put a bounty on her head. When that fails to stop her, they send a team to the United States to murder her family. She returns to the U. S. and along with her friend from Afghanistan, Nick Sabino,...

An Army marches on its stomach, observed Napoleon, a hundred and fifty years later General Rommel remarked that the British should always be attacked before soldiers had had an early morning cup of tea. This book, written to raise money for the Army Benevolent Fund and with a Foreword by General Lord...

This ambitious survey draws together the two major wars of decolonization fought by France in Indochina and Algeria (as well as the lesser but far from insignificant military operations in Madagascar, Tunisia and Morocco) into a single integrated account. It examines traditional French attitudes to...

Based on repeat interviews from a range of generational perspectives, this book explores the nature of contemporary British Chinese households and childhoods, examining the extent to which parents identify themselves as being Chinese and how decisions to uphold or move away from 'traditional' Chinese values impacts on their child-rearing methods.

The glass ceiling is shattered-let the shards fall where they may   When Jack Hale invested in Celia's advertising agency, it was not because he had faith in her abilities-it was because she's his daughter. But, suddenly, she's an inexplicable success. When he takes her out to dinner...

Two tall tales of mystery, the occult, and death-defying escapes The women of London have taken to wearing thin black bands around their necks. Is it a fashion accessory—or a stylish way of hiding bite marks? A string of strange deaths has struck the town, and witnesses claim to have seen...

Ebbing and tiding comprise one of the strongest and objective, real, constructs that help to keep our lives in place, today, as certainly as ever, the despair, the dark, drifting into lighter spaces most often being my fare during the first, into the second portion of my period of greatest lamentations....

Three is a numerical symbol used throughout literature, especially Holy Scripture, to signify completion, the full whole, the circle joined. In Volume III of Quiet Sheba, the final volume of the trilogy, I have, again, my lamentations, with their similar subjects and themes as different and repeated...

17 year old, Van Ripplewink, ‘dies’ in 1966 and ‘wakes up’ in a cold graveyard in 2015 America. As he attempts to find his way home, he finds the world he knew gone, and in its place, a bizarre world with morals and social movements he’s never heard of, and technology he’s only read about...

War has returned to the Crendaria. Dereg Baymin, Captain of the Crendarian Royal Guard, is sent to escort a diplomat to Quelthos in a desperate bid for aid. Duty-bound, he and his Guardsmen must navigate the complicated conspiracy that threatens to ensnare them, while ensuring the safety of their...

Few could have guessed how it was done, but many knew why it was done. FBI agents Jarrick and Gina peel back the layers of an assassination plot that was accomplished without a bullet or a gun. When patriotic senator Robert Bob Foster is killed in the mountains of West Virginia, it wasnt his love...

Herding cattle from horseback has been a tradition in northern Mexico and the American West since the Spanish colonial era. The first mounted herders were the Mexican vaqueros, expert horsemen who developed the skills to work cattle in the brush country and deserts of the Southwestern borderlands. From...