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Harvey Williams, a prominent marine biologist, comes to Pulpit Rock on a summer sabbatical, enticed by a hefty grant and the promise of directing an important research project. He soon discovers the project is a hoax apparently contrived to involve him in a cover-up of a deadly disease attacking local aquaculture fisheries. Angered and disgusted, his sabbatical now ruined, he is determined to find the culprits responsible for the ruse and to learn why they had chosen him to be their shill. Ultimately his investigation entangles him and his wife in the web of a sinister conspiracy that is slowly strangling this isolated coastal village. It has also placed their lives in jeopardy. This is the terrifying story of a courageous man's struggle against evil.
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The most bitter guerrilla conflict in American history raged along the Kansas-Missouri border from 1856 to 1865, making that frontier the first battleground in the struggle over slavery. That fiercely contested boundary represented the most explosive political fault line in the United States, and its bitter divisions foreshadowed an entire nation torn asunder. Jeremy Neely now examines the significance of the border war on both sides of the Kansas-Missouri line and offers a comparative, cross-border analysis of its origins, meanings, and consequences. A narrative history of the border war and its impact on citizens of both states, The Border between Them recounts the exploits of John Brown, ...