Bücher von Rod Collins

The Reverend Thomas Jefferson Wildish leads back to a high-ranking jihadist in Portland, Oregon. It also leads to a confrontation between Sheriff Blair and fifty bikers bent on freeing their friends, "or we'll tear your town apart." In Portland, FBI Special Agents Wilcox and Brandt investigate a tip about a cargo ship container sitting on Portland's Pier 6 dock. As they unravel the mystery behind the container, the web expands to include jihadists, bikers, and a rogue FBI agent. When unsubstantiated rumors are leaked of a terrorist plot to kill thousands of people in Portland, the ensuing chaos tests the city's disaster plans and the patience of first responders.

Hunted by the terrorist assassins working for the elusive Bloodstone, Lake County Sheriff Bud Blair uses the ego and arrogance of a former U. S. congressman to set a trap for a Colombian drug lord. NCIS, the FBI, and the U.S. Coast Guard wait for the trap to be sprung while Bud battles the paid assassins in the Oregon High Desert. At risk are Bud's life, his career, and his planned marriage to a beautiful Yakima Indian woman, Nancy Sixkiller. But when Bud is injured in a gun battle, he and Nancy face a difficult and painful decision.

In the years following the Civil War, former Union soldier John Bitter and his wife, Morgan, have overcome the relentless hardships of traveling to Oregon from Missouri along the Oregon Trail and have settled into a peaceful and contented life in Abiqua with their two sons. When Anna Franklin, the impetuous daughter of State Representative Peter Franklin, runs away with her unscrupulous fiancé to get married-or so she believes-the congressman asks John Bitter, now a Pinkerton agent, to find her and bring her back.Accompanied by his Native friend, Owl, John's journey takes the reader to the wilds of Eastern Oregon during a time of unrest among the native tribes, and Canyon City's gold fields. Along the way a vow of revenge from outlaws results in life-threatening injuries for John. With Owl's help, John's recovery and continued search for Anna become a mission for justice as well.This is also a tale of a state that votes anti-slavery and still passes the Exclusion Act which prohibits black freedmen and former slaves from living in the state of Oregon, a sad display of prejudice that lures John Bitter into state politics.Following Rod Collins' Bitter's Run, Abiqua is ¿lled with colorful characters-real and imagined, law abiding and lawless-in a galloping adventure of courage, loyalty, and the pioneering spirit.

John Bitter scanned the hilltops with his field glasses, blaming unfamiliar territory for his uneasy feelings, but past experience taught him not to ignore his hunches. Something's brewing, he thought. Following Lee's surrender of the Northern Army of Virginia to Grant on April 9, 1865 at Appomattox, Captain John Bitter of Abiqua Creek, Oregon musters out of the 40th Missouri. A loner, Bitter plans a quick ride home over the Oregon Trail. The good Lord, however, has other plans for him. After a month on the Trail, two gun battles, a bruising fistfight to settle a blood feud, a new wife, and two adopted sons, Bitter tells Rockford, his big, mean, black horse, "This sure complicates the business of getting back to Oregon." Bitter now finds himself the leader of a mixed entourage going west: a black pioneer family earlier wagon trains shunned; an Irish rebel turned galvanized Yankee; a dispossessed Cherokee turned Cheyenne medicine man; the rescued sister of a Bannock chief; a white boy adopted by the Cheyenne; and a scout for the Union Army who is also one of the richest men in Oregon. Bitter's Run is a spirited and adventurous tale. Told in three parts, it portrays the realities and uncertainties of life on the Oregon Trail, of war-weary men seeking or returning to a homestead in Oregon, and of the courageous women who rode with them.