Author: Thomas K. Perry
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Keywords: mill, teams, carolina, south, league, baseball, textile
Number of Pages: 327
Published: 2004-01-27
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0786418753
ISBN-13: 9780786418756

After the Civil War, the Yankee textile industry began a steady transfer south, bringing with it the tradition of a mill village, usually owned by the mill’s owner, where the workers and their families lived. The new game of baseball quickly became a foundation of mill village life. A rich tradition of textile league baseball in South Carolina is here reconstructed from newspaper accounts and interviews with former players and fans. Players such as “Shoeless” Joe Jackson and Champ Osteen made their marks as “lintheads” in these semipro leagues. The fierce rivalries between competing mills

Author: Thomas Perry
Publisher: Vanguard Pre
Keywords: silence
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2009-06-23
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 1593155239
ISBN-13: 9781593155230

Six years ago, Jack Till helped Wendy Harper disappear. But now her ex boyfriend and former business partner, Eric Fuller, is being framed for her presumed murder in an effort to smoke her out, and Till must find her before tango-dancing assassins Paul and Sylvie Turner do.The Turners are merely hired to do a job, though, and prefer to remain anonymous. When they find that a middleman has let the true employer know their identities, finishing the job is no longer enough. Their fee just went up. And now they must double-cross the man who wants Wendy dead before he can double-cross them—if the

Author: Thomas Perry
Publisher: Mariner Book
Keywords: runner
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2010-01-02
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0547247923
ISBN-13: 9780547247922

After a nine-year absence, the fiercely resourceful Native American guide Jane Whitefield is back, in the latest superb thriller by award-winning author Thomas Perry. For more than a decade, Jane pursued her unusual profession: “I’m a guide . . . I show people how to go from places where somebody is trying to kill them to other places where nobody is.” Then she promised her husband she would never work again, and settled in to live a happy, quiet life as Jane McKinnon, the wife of a surgeon in Amherst, New York. But when a bomb goes off in the middle of a hospital fundraiser, Jane fi

Author: Thomas Perry
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Keywords: silence
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2007-06-01
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 015101289X
ISBN-13: 9780151012893

Six years ago, Jack Till helped Wendy Harper disappear. But now her ex-boyfriend and former business partner, Eric Fuller, is being framed for her presumed murder in an effort to smoke her out, and Till must find her before tango-dancing assassins Paul and Sylvie Turner do. The Turners are merely hired to do a job, though, and prefer to remain anonymous. When they find that a middleman has let the true employer know their identities, finishing the job is no longer enough. Their fee just went up. And now they must double-cross the man who wants Wendy dead before he can double-cross them—if

Author: Thomas Perry
Publisher: Ivy Books
Keywords: whitefield, jane, dead, dance
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 1997-03-02
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0804114250
ISBN-13: 9780804114257

"COMPELLING . . . NOBODY WRITES A CHASE BETTER THAN PERRY."  *The Washington Post Book WorldWhen eight-year-old Timothy Decker finds his parents brutally murdered, it’s clear the Deckers weren’t the intended victims: Timothy’s own room--ransacked, all traces of his existence expertly obliterated *is the shocking evidence. Timothy’s nanny, Mona, is certain about only one thing. Timmy needs to disappear, fast. Only Jane Whitefield, a Native American "guide" who specializes in making victims vanish, can lead him to safety. But diverting Jane’s attention is Mary Per

Author: Thomas Perry
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Keywords: novel, pursuit
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2006-02-14
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0812971388
ISBN-13: 9780812971385

“Perry is the best suspense writer in the business. . . . Pursuit is relentless, filled with twists and turns, that rare page-turner that keeps one reading late into the night to finish.”–The Boston GlobeThirteen bodies are found in a Louisville restaurant. When the police can find no suspect or motive, a victim’s family seeks the services of the enigmatic and solitary specialist Roy Prescott, known for his ability to find people who don’t want to be found. Working outside the law and willing to do what the police can’t, Prescott hunts the killer, an elusive adversary who is as sma

Author: Thomas Perry
Publisher: Quercus Publishing Plc
Keywords: nightlife
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2007-04-05
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 184724047X
ISBN-13: 9781847240477