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CAAM Covert American Australian Mission American Trent Davis is a Vietnam vet and retired policeman, now operating his own security firm. He deals in the bad people business and thinks that the pendulum has swung too far in their favour. That the bad bastards, that the law are helpless against, are flaunting their power with no remorse. He is going do something about that. Paul J Gent Jnr is a Manhattan billionaire who will back Daviss play. A chance meeting with a brash Australian gives rise to opportunityto bring an assault team to Australia to fine-tune their skills before launching attacks in the States. Tom Roach is a meek and mild travelling salesmanhis family killed by a drug-dealer fleeing a police chase ten years previous. Roach has been found and headhunted and seemingly dies to become a chameleona ghost to provide surveillance for the hit team, their mission: shoot four bad bastards in Australia as a forerunner to bigger scale missions in the USA. Roach needs to decideis he now a murderer and or a vigilante, or is he a social corrector? Will he stay and play rich mans justice?
In Kalaupapa Place Names, John Clark presents a unique history of the leprosy settlement on Moloka‘i, based on his meticulous research of more than three hundred Hawaiian-language newspaper articles. He first assembled an extensive list of familiar and long-forgotten place names associated with the Kalaupapa peninsula and then searched for them in the online repository of Hawaiian-language newspapers. With translation assistance by Iāsona Ellinwood and Keao NeSmith, he discovered articles that show a community of Hawaiians from every island except uninhabited Kaho‘olawe. Their stories reveal an active community with its members trying to live their lives as normally as possible in the f...
Charles Binaggio and his underboss, Charles Gargotta, rose through poverty in Missouri to eventually lead the Kansas City mob. In the 1930s and 40s, their control extended from local police and businessmen all the way to the White House. The two men died together in an unsolved 1950 double murder in downtown Kansas City. This work offers a unique take on the stories of the two Charlies, with first-hand accounts from those who worked for the gangsters as well as those who felt their wrath. The book also reveals the two mobsters' private lives with their wives and children, and describes their inner political connections both within Kansas City and inside Harry S. Truman's administration.
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The truly classic Australian story of Tom Kruse - legendary mailman of the Birdsville Track. For the people who lived in the desert between Marree and Birdsville, contact with the outside world was hard and sporadic - but one man was their lifeline: Tom Kruse. For more than twenty years he was the connection with the outside world for the families, station workers and others who lived along the Birdsville Track. Tom delivered everything from the mail and newspapers to fuel and food - whole communities waited in anticipation for him to drop off their supplies. But it was a hard life, from regularly making running repairs to his truck to unloading and reloading tons of stores so that he could ...