The Executioner's Blade
Author: D. K. Holmberg
Publisher:
Published: 2021-02-16
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ISBN-13: 9781946586032
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The Executioner's Blade
Author: J. R. Seeger
Publisher: Mission Point Press
Published: 2019-05-15
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9781950659074
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →BOOK 3 IN THE MIKE4 SERIES In this suspense-filled thriller, Seeger takes his readers on a voyage of discovery across a dangerous, clandestine world he knows so well. His own experience in special ops add unmatched granularity and reality to a fast-paced, terrific yarn. Milt Bearden, author of The Black Tulip and co-author of The Main Enemy In his latest in the Mike4 series, The Executioner's Blade, JR Seeger explores the increasing overlap between America's Special Forces warriors and their silent cousins in the intelligence community. Nobody is better positioned to tell these stories. Seeger has been on the front lines of the post-9/11 wars and his breadth and depth of experience is visible on every page. Seeger has developed enduring characters who allow him to explore issues related to war, family and betrayal. John Sipher, retired CIA Senior Intelligence Service. John (@john_sipher) is the co-founder of Spycraft Entertainment (Spycraft), a production firm providing content and talent to the entertainment industry, and a Director of Client Services at CrossLead, a software and consulting firm
Arms & Armor
Author: Stephen N. Fliegel
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Published: 1999-03-01
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780810963764
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Lavishly illustrated and loaded with stellar examples of helmets, shields, swords, crossbows, firearms, and more from the magnificent collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art, this volume traces the history of European arms and armor from antiquity through the 18th century. Published to celebrate the recent refurbishment of the museum's popular Armor Court, Arms & Armor explores such themes as medieval warfare, tournaments, the process of making and decorating armor, and the Renaissance culture of arms. It also provides a discussion of various forms of weapons. The museum's finest works -- all newly restored -- were specially photographed for the book's large colorplates and searching details. In addition, paintings, tapestries, and engravings show how the objects were used and worn.
The Executioner's Apprentice
Author: D. K. Holmberg
Publisher:
Published: 2021-01-26
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781946586025
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Executioners search for justice, not vengeance. Finn questions why it can't be both.As apprentice to the master executioner, Finn struggles to understand his place in the city as he searches for truth in those sentenced. The job is more complicated than he ever imagined. He's proven his understanding of the basics, but for him to serve as an executioner-if that's what he wants-he needs mastery.Distracted by his search for a way to heal his still ailing mother despite the hegen magic, he finds himself at odds with the master executioner. When assigned his first solo case, he knows he needs to impress Meyer. An investigation into a fire that burned through an entire section of the city leads Finn to learn of a greater threat to Verendal-and the entire kingdom. When only Finn believes there's more to the fire, can he save the city or will his quest for vengeance finally lead to his downfall?
A Cultural History of the Medieval Sword
Author: Robert W. Jones
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2023-05-23
Total Pages: 237
ISBN-13: 1837650365
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This study takes the sword beyond it functional role as a tool for killing, considering it as a cultural artifact and the broader meaning and significance it had to its bearer.
The Executioner's Right
Author: D. K. Holmberg
Publisher:
Published: 2021-01-05
Total Pages: 518
ISBN-13: 9781946586018
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Executioners don't solve crimes, they punish those who commit them. Or so Finn thought before apprenticed to one. Poverty-stricken Finn Jagger would give anything to heal his ailing mother. With his father imprisoned, Finn has joined a thieving crew to earn the money he needs to save her. When the latest heist turns to disaster and lands him on death row, Finn's future seems to be tied up with a noose. Until the king's executioner claims him as an apprentice. Finn soon learns an Executioner has far more power and greater responsibility than he'd ever realized. As inquisitor and detective, he must find the truth behind each sentence he carries out. It's a challenging job, but one that Finn is surprisingly good at. When the crew decides Finn could be the key to completing an impossible heist that threatens the kingdom, he's forced to choose between his new job and his old friends. And making the wrong choice could cost him everything.
The Executioner Always Chops Twice
Author: Geoffrey Abbott
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2004-04-03
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780312325633
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A morbidly fascinating mixture of bungled executions ,strange last requests, and classic final one-liners from medieval times to the present day. Sometimes it's hard to be an executioner, trying to keep someone from popping up to make a quip when they should have spectacularly sunk without a trace. Or to be told that the condemned to the guillotine won't have a last drink for fear of "completely losing his head." The business of death can be absurd, and nothing illustrates this better than these tales of the gruesome and frankly ridiculous ways in which a number of ill-fated unfortunates met (or failed to meet) their maker. Did you know: When Sir Thomas More was ordered to position his head on the block, he said "though you have warrant to cut off my head, you have none to cut off my beard?" When the guillotine took three strokes to sever the neck of Isabeau Herman, the mob attempted to stone the executioner to death for cruelty? After the English hanged the pirate Captain Kidd they chained his body to a stake on the Thames River as a warning to seafarers? From the strange to the gruesome, from the weird to the completely unbelievable, The Executioner Always Chops Twice is popular history at its best: witty, lively, and wonderfully bizarre.
War Against the Mafia
Author: Don Pendleton
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2014-12-16
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 1497685540
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The first book in the classic vigilante action series from a “writer who spawned a genre” (The New York Times). Overseas, Mack Bolan was dubbed “Sgt. Mercy” for the compassion he showed the innocent. On the home front, they’re calling him the Executioner for what he’s doing to the guilty. In the jungles of Southeast Asia, American sniper Mack Bolan honed his skills. After twelve years, with ninety-five confirmed hits, he returns home to Massachusetts. But it’s not to reunite with his family, it’s to bury them—victims in a mass murder/suicide. Even though Bolan’s own father pulled the trigger, he knows the old man was no killer. He was driven to madness by Mafia thugs who have turned his idyllic hometown into a new kind of war zone. Duty calls . . . Introducing an action hero “who would make Jack Reacher think twice,” this is the first book in the iconic series of vigilante justice that has become a publishing phenomenon (Empireonline.com). With more than two hundred million Executioner books sold since its debut, the series continues to stimulate. Gerry Conway, cocreator of Marvel Comics’ The Punisher, credits the Executioner as “my inspiration . . . that’s what gave me the idea for the lone, slightly psychotic avenger.” The series is also now in development as a major motion picture. War Against the Mafia is the 1st book in the Executioner series, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
The Executioner's Daughter
Author: Laura E. Williams
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Published: 2016-07-05
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 1250128757
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The riveting tale of an executioner's daughter who struggles to find a different path in life Born into the family of an executioner, Lily has always been sheltered by her mother from the horrors of her father's occupation. But when her ailing mother takes a turn for the worse, Lily is suddenly thrust into the paralyzing role of executioner's assistant. Aside from preparing healing concoctions for the suffering and maimed, Lily must now accompany her father at the town executions, something she has never done before. Though she loves her father, the emotional burden of his disturbing profession is just too much for her to bear. Lily must find a way to change her destiny, no matter the consequences. Set in medieval England, this well-researched and beautifully written novel tells the story of one girl's fight to rise above her fate.
The Faithful Executioner
Author: Joel F. Harrington
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2013-05-02
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 1448129370
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Meet Frantz Schmidt: executioner, torturer and, most unusually for his times, diarist. Following in his father’s footsteps, Frantz entered the executioner’s trade as an Apprentice. 394 executions and forty-five years later, he retired to focus his attentions on running the large medical practice that he had always viewed as his true vocation. Through examination of Frantz’s exceptional and often overlooked record, Joel F. Harrington delves deep into a world of human cruelty, tragedy and injustice. At the same time, he poses a fascinating question: could a man who routinely practiced such cruelty also be insightful, compassionate – even progressive? The Faithful Executioner is the biography of an ordinary man struggling to overcome an unjust family curse; it is also a remarkable panorama of a Europe poised on the cusp of modernity, a world with startling parallels to our own.
