Bücher von James Reasoner

"80-luvun parhaita yksityisetsivädekkareita. Tiivis, runollinen tyyli, sympaattisen epätäydellinen päähenkilö." (Tapani Bagge)Texasilainen yksityisetsivä Cody palkataan yksinkertaiseen hommaan: pitää löytää ja tuoda takaisin kotiin kadonnut teini-ikäinen tyttö. Tapaus ei kuitenkaan ole niin yksinkertainen kuin miltä se näyttää, ja ruumiita alkaa kasaantua. Kirjassa tulevat tutuksi niin Fort Worthin hyvinvoiva eliitti kuin laitakaupunkien gangsteritkin. James Reasonerin esikoisromaani Texasin tuuli ilmestyi alun perin vuonna 1980 ja on myöhemmin noussut kulttiteokseksi. Monet pitävät sitä yhtenä kaikkien aikojen parhaista yksityisetsiväromaaneista, jossa juoni, henkilökuvaukset ja paikan tuntu ovat tasapainossa. Teos kuvaa henkilöitään lämmöllä ja piirtää taitavaa kuvaa myös Fort Worthin country & western -kulttuurista. Teoksen on suomentanut kovaksikeitetyn amerikkalaisen dekkarin tuntija Juri Nummelin.

Following the defeat of Confederate forces at Chattanooga in November 1863, the battered Rebel army retreats to winter quarters at Dalton, Georgia. Sherman's March to the Sea is now complete, and despair grips the Confederacy. Fractured and defeated at every turn, the nation asks itself how much longer it can continue to fight in this ninth volume.

Paperback release of Book 8 in the Civil War Battle Series.

In this seventh volume of the ten-volume Civil War Battle Series, the action spans the area from Pennsylvania and Virginia to Georgia, Mississippi, and Illinois.The seven members of the Brannon clan of Culpeper County, Virginia, experience a wide range of the many hardships of war. The Southern setbacks of July 1863 have fallen hard on the Brannons, for two sons were with Lee in Pennsylvania and one was at Vicksburg. They still mourn the loss another, Titus, presumed dead but actually interned in a Northern prison camp for seven months.Mac Brannon, in Stuart's cavalry, helps to protect the Army of Northern Virginia as it withdraws to Virginia. Of special concern to him are the ambulance wagons, one of which carries his wounded brother, Will. In Vicksburg, Cory Brannon recuperates from an illness, and as his health returns he looks for ways to escape the Union occupation and join Nathan Bedford Forrest's cavalry. In the Yankee prison camp outside of Chicago, Titus is determined to escape and make his way home. He does not yet know the price of his freedom. Cory and his comrades connect with Forrest just in time for the action at Chickamauga.Although the battle goes well for the Confederates, Forrest and his commander, Braxton Bragg, have a falling out. Circumstances dictate that Cory remain with Braxton Bragg in the Confederate camps that encircle Chattanooga, but when Bragg decides to outwait the Union army trapped before him, the scene is set for the arrival of a new Federal commander-U.S. Grant.

Vicksburg is the fifth volume in a series of historical novels spanning the Civil War featuring the Brannon family of Culpeper County, Virginia. The focus turns to the west and the Southern stronghold of Vicksburg, Mississippi, where Cory Brannon is working to keep the town supplied by wagon train and railroad from Texas.Vicksburg is the key to the Mississippi River and the future of the Confederacy, and Abraham Lincoln wants to put that key in his pocket. For almost a year the Federal army and navy have tried to dislodge the Confederates, but they have gained nothing. Finally, Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, the hero of the battles at Forts Henry and Donelson and the battle of Shiloh, is dispatched to take the town.Cory and the woman he loves, Lucille Farrell, are working with her uncle, Col. Charles Thompson, and a small contingent of dedicated Southerners. In the spring of 1863, as the Union army begins to close in, Cory must abandon that venture to take on a vital mission for Confederate Gen. John Pemberton, the commander in charge of Vicksburg's defenses. At the end of Cory's journey, however, is an even more dangerous foray into Western Tennessee and over the border into Kentucky with the horse soldiers of Nathan Bedford Forrest, Cory's mentor from the battle of Shiloh. To help save Vicksburg, Cory becomes both a cavalry raider and even a spy.Yet his efforts cannot prevent the inevitable as the Yankees eventually surround and lay siege to Vicksburg. With the Northern army set to seize the city, Lucille must also cope with additional challenges as she encounters a returning friend with secret plans of his own. The Federal bombardment, illness, injury, and starvation all take their toll on the defenders of Vicksburg, forcing Cory and Lucille to face decisions that threaten not only their love but their very lives.

Following the defeat of Confederate forces at Chattanooga in November 1863, the battered Rebel army retreats to winter quarters at Dalton, Georgia. Sherman's March to the Sea is now complete, and despair grips the Confederacy. Fractured and defeated at every turn, the nation asks itself how much longer it can continue to fight in this ninth volume.

In this eighth volume of the ten-part Civil War Battle Series, the action returns to northern Virginia and Culpeper County. The long absent Titus Brannon returns home on Christmas Day, 1863, and he is surprised to find that his wife, Polly, is now married to his brother Henry.

This historical novel features the Brannon family of Virginia. Young Cory Brannon is working to keep the town supplied by wagon train and railroad, but the pressures of the Civil War force him to leave his family and fiancee to become a cavalry rider and spy.

Manassas, by James Reasoner, is the first novel in The Civil War Battles series based on the Brannon family of Culpeper County, Virginia. This initial volume describes the mood in the South prior to the outbreak of hostilities and follows one of the Brannon sons into the army and onto the scene of the first major battle of the war.