Las aventuras de un perfecto imbécil. Guapo, muy guapo. Imbécil, muy imbécil.

A merced de un mafioso —Señor, le conseguí la chica, justo como la había pedido. —Dile que no venga. Bríndale algo de dinero y despáchala —dijo con desdén—, cambié de parecer. —¿No le ha parecido lo suficientemente guapa? ¿Quiere que le busque a alguien más? —pregunté nerviosa. —No, solo quédese y dígame su precio. —Entornó los ojos, apreciándome de pies a cabeza, inhalando de su cigarillo—. ¿Cuánto vale su cuerpo? La precaria situación económica de Monica no le permite continuar sus estudios. Para costearlos, la joven no le queda de otra que seguir la recomendación de su amiga, trabajar en el Maneki-Neko Casino. Su trabajo consistirá no en atender al público general, sino que debe hacerlo en el verdadero negocio que se esconde tras bastidores, el espacio de apuestas ilegales. Donde tiene que recurrir a ilegalidades para satisfacer las necesidades de cada visitante. Pero todo cambia en su vida, o se complica, cuando le toca atender ordenes del mismísimo Raijin “Raiden” Tanaka, el dueño del casino y miembro de la mafia japonesa.

A telegram arrives from the Northern Oklahoma Territories for Texas Ranger Captain Bates. Marshal Jack Black is in trouble and the only friend he has to ask for help is Rowdy. So, the Ranger sets off north to aid his friend. A journey that leads him to Kansas State Prison in Levine. Has the Kansas marshal finally crossed that fine gray line of the law and will spend the rest of his life in jail or will Rowdy Bates and his Texas Rangers find a way to win the day?

The Laredo Texas Rangers received orders from Austin to head to El Paso to assist and contain the violence when a posse of seventy-five Mexican vaqueros ride into town. They are on the trail of the American Rustlers and the land-grabbers who are terrorizing El Paso County and the ranches south of the border. So Captain Bates and his men head for Southwestern part of the state and US Marshal Dallas Stoudenmire, a lawman with a happy trigger-finger. Will the child, captured by the gang leader, Pat Whisper, escape with his life, or will he perish like his parents and little sister? And who will solve the mystery of the money man behind the land-grabbing; the local law or Captain Bates and his men?

Rangers Coffee and Landers are captured by a band of young Comanche who intends to bring back the glory days of their people. Will the Texas Rangers perish? The Terrible Horrel Brothers have swept a path of violence across the New Mexico Territories and Texas. Will Captain Bates and Marshal Jack Black be able to stop the violence? Abigale Burrs and Sally Skull are in an out-and-out battle over the rights to Captain Rowdy Bates. Which one will win the day?

Rustlers ride north to steal all the cattle and horses in the massive herd from the Lazy-Z Ranch as they head for Montana. Will they be able to ward off the outlaws and win the day? Sheriff Jim Bridges of Dodge City in Ford County plans to rob the First Victorian Bank of 50 pounds of gold. Will he get away with the bullion and retire to Mexico a rich man? Sally Skull has designs on Ranger Captain Bates and plans to steal the man away from Abigale Burrs, who runs the Lone Star Saloon in Laredo. Who will win the Texan's heart, Abby or Sally?

Viola se gana la vida de una manera que no es vista con buenos ojos. Su trabajo es descubrir y vender los trucos más resguardados por los magos ilusionistas. Su vida cambia cuando es enviada a una pequeña isla a descubrir a Krane, que, con su excéntrica personalidad, hace que cada encuentro sea mágico, intimidante y extrañamente cautivador.

A madman is on the loose along the Texas rivers, and it is the Rangers’ job to stop the killer. Capt. Rowdy Bates, along with three men from the Laredo post, board the Magnolia paddleboat headed for the Brazos River. How many bodies will accumulate before they stop this killing spree? Meanwhile Terry Coffee has challenged the East Coast bare-knuckle boxing champion – a man twice his size – to a match. But the young Ranger from Kentucky is as mean as a honey badger when he gets his dander up. Will the small but feisty Ranger win? Justin Burrs is getting too old to run the Lone Star Saloon on his own, so his niece, Abigale, moves to Laredo to run the business – and Rowdy Bates is left in a whirlwind of trouble from the moment he meets the woman with the vampire eyes.

Novela contemporanea

Texas Ranger Captain Rowdy Bates rides to Kansas to chase the rustler who stole his horse, Sugar. In Wichita, he meets a young US Marshal by the name of Jack Black and they side-kick up to pursue and capture the Bill Whitley Outlaw Gang along with Brack Cornett, taking the lawmen back to Texas and eventually deep into Mexico in their pursuit. All this while back in Laredo, Victoria Lee Dupree awaits her trial and an almost certain sentenced to hang by the neck for the murder of High Card Harry Brownstone. An act perpetrated to protect the man she loved. Will her beau arrive in time to save her from certain death?

Roy Blood had been locked in Yuma Territorial Prison for the attempted murder of US Deputy Marshal Harold Stampede. But the outlaw has managed to break out and take a dozen hardened convicts with him as they sweep a path of violence across Southern Arizona. The leader of the gang has sworn an oath to kill the deputy marshal for shooting dead his partner, Jimmy So-Fast. And Marshal One-Eyed Jack Black intends to do whatever he can to stop him and protect the citizens of Cochise County. All this, while an unsuspecting killer is on the loose in Peirce City during the lawmen’s absence.

Rebecca Glitch no puede entender por qué su antiguo jefe, quien enfermó repentinamente, le dejó la tarea de estar al pendiente de la salud mental de su sucesor. Evan Phoenix tiene todo, una belleza irreal, poder, dinero, pero a todo esto, se suma un carácter frío y distante, causando, contradictoriamente, deseo y curiosidad irresistibles en todas las mujeres que lo conocen. Con su llegada a Talos Tech inician una serie de eventos misteriosos, lo que lleva a Rebecca a pensar que su nuevo jefe esconde un secreto. Conocerlo es todo un reto. Lograr que abra su corazón, mucho más...

Marshal One-Eyed Jack Black is urgently called to Apache Pass, Arizona between Dos Cabezas and the Chiricahua Mountains to order a wagon train to turn back to avoid an impending hostile attack. Will the marshal get there in time? Jack's best friend is named U.S. deputy marshal but things go wrong on the first day, and a serious crime is committed. Will the new deputy solve the mystery without the help of Marshal Black? Zebadiah Wretchly was a wicked man who used slaves to work his turquoise mines. But exactly who are these forced laborer? And is it true that Jack's and Gloria's relationship has taken a severe turn and what will Jack do about it? Read OUTLAWS, Marshal Jack Black Series #5 and find out what really happens in this latest novel from Ash Lingam.

This is a short story of the younger years of Marshal One-Eyed Jack Black in Wichita, Kansas.

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