James Reasoner, Author . Forge $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-312-87345-5
It's January 1941, and four young friends are getting ready to enlist at the beginning of this fictional equivalent of a TV miniseries, a novel that feels like exactly what it is: the prologue to a series of novels about WWII. Joe Parker writes...
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James Reasoner, Author . Forge $25.95 (445p) ISBN 978-0-312-87346-2
Beginning on the eve of Pearl Harbor, this second volume of Reasoner's WWII epic follows a group of childhood friends who fight for their country in far-flung theaters of war. Adam, a marine, and his navy nurse wife, Catherine, are stationed in...
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James Reasoner, Author . Point Blank $16.95 (152p) ISBN 978-0-8095-7245-8
With a simple but effective plot and understated prose, this outstanding “redneck noir” successfully gives the windswept Texas plains the feel of mean city streets. Young, callow Toby McCoy appears at an isolated farmhouse, apparently...
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James Reasoner, Author Cumberland House Publishing $22.95 (352p) ISBN 978-1-58182-008-9
Fans of the Westward and Stagecoach series of western adventures will be pleased that Reasoner has produced yet another storyline ripe for sequels. The first in a projected eight-volume Civil War Battles series, this novel begins as tensions between
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James Reasoner, Author Cumberland House Publishing $22.95 (368p) ISBN 978-1-58182-163-5
Vicksburg, the fifth volume in James Reasoner's Civil War Battle series, is the latest installment in the saga of the Brannon family of Culpeper County, Va. Fighting to defend the Mississippi town in October 1862, Cory Brannon, a courageous young...
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James Reasoner, Author Berkley Publishing Group $15 (304p) ISBN 978-0-425-19193-4
Reasoner, a novelist who specializes in the American West, now turns his skills from fiction to fact, relating 30 or so true tales of western gunslingers and their fates. From one-on-one duels to gang battles to posse pursuits, Reasoner covers the...
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James Reasoner, Author Cumberland House Publishing $22.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-58182-084-3
In this third installment (Manassas; Shiloh) of his Civil War series, Reasoner (Walker, Texas Ranger), moves the focus of his novel back to Virginia and his Culpepper County family, the Brannons. In this episode, two of the older brothers, Will and...
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Robert J. Randisi, James Reasoner, et al. Western Fictioneers (www.westernfictioneers.com), $12 trade paper (248p) ISBN 978-1-4781-8916-9
According to this entertaining collection, Christmas in the Old West includes ghostly saloons, cryptic phrenological snake-oil salesmen, nightmarish men in black, ferocious Apaches, and ornery drunks. In Douglas Hirt’s “Christmas Wraiths,” tall...
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