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«Мчащиеся мустанги» — история превращения Тома Глостера из юного недотепы в Томазо — дьявола. Он помогает молодому Дэвиду Пэрри вернуться в родной дом, преодолевая немыслимые препятствия и обретая в конце концов любовь и счастье.

Непросто раздобыть золото, спрятанное двадцать лет назад. Но братья Сакетты, отважные дети Дикого Запада, полны решимости найти сокровища и выяснить, жив ли их отец, давным-давно отправившийся на его поиски. Оррин Сакетт, интересовавшийся в Новом Орлеанедавней экспедицией отца, внезапно исчезает, и его брату предстоит выяснить, что с ним случилось. Удастся ли им перехитрить тех, кто бросился на поиски золота, ведь они готовы убить каждого, кто встанет у них на пути?

Развернем карту обоих полушарий и взглянем на огромный материк Северной Америки. Посмотрим на далекий Дикий Запад - туда, за крайние границы Соединенных Штатов, где перед нашими глазами развернется страна, землю которой никогда еще не вспахивали человеческие руки, очертания которой как бы отражают во всей величавой неприкосновенности первый день творения, - страна, в которой каждый предмет еще носит первобытный отпечаток, образ Творца.

Эпоха освоения Дикого Запада — одна из самых притягательных страниц американской истории. Но судьбу великой страны вершили обычные люди — переселенцы, двинувшиеся на новые земли в поисках лучшей доли. Главный герой `Одиноких богов` — обаятельный, рано повзрослевший Иоханнес Верн оказывается вовлеченным в круговорот захватывающих событий, где смешались любовь и ненависть, бескорыстная дружба и жажда мести, честь и предательство.

A richly imagined novel of the Old West, as spare and vivid as a high plains sunset, from one of the world's most talented performers. It was a long time ago, now, and there were many gunfights to follow, but I remember as well as I remember anything the first time I saw Virgil Cole shoot. Time slowed down for him. Always steady, and never fast... When it comes to writing, Robert B. Parker knows no boundaries. From the iconic Spenser detective series and the novels featuring Sunny Randall and Jesse Stone, to the groundbreaking historical novel Double Play, Parker's imagination has taken readers from Boston to Brooklyn and back again. In Appaloosa, fans are taken on another trip, to the untamed territories of the West during the 1800s. When Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch arrive in Appaloosa, they find a small, dusty town suffering at the hands of renegade rancher Randall Bragg, a man who has so little regard for the law that he has taken supplies, horses, and women for his own and left the city marshal and one of his deputies for dead. Cole and Hitch, itinerant lawmen, are used to cleaning up after opportunistic thieves, but in Bragg they find an unusually wily adversary-one who raises the stakes by playing not with the rules, but with emotions. This is Robert B. Parker at his storytelling best.

New York Times-bestselling author Robert B. Parker takes aim at the Old West with this brilliantly crafted follow-up to Resolution and Appaloosa, again featuring guns-for-hire Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch.When we last saw Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch, they had just put things to right in the rough-and-tumble Old West town of Resolution. It's now a year later, and Virgil has only one thing on his mind: Allie French, the woman who stole his heart from their days in Appaloosa. Even though Allie ran off with another man, Virgil is determined to find her, his deputy and partner Everett Hitch at his side. Making their way across New Mexico and Texas, the pair finally discover Allie in a small-town brothel. Her spirit crushed, Allie joins Everett and Virgil as they head north to start over in Brimstone. But things are not the same between Virgil and Allie; too much has happened, and Virgil can't face what Allie did to survive the year they were apart. Vowing to change, Allie thinks she has found redemption through the local church and its sanctimonious leader, Brother Percival. Given their reputations as guns for hire, Everett and Virgil are able to secure positions as the town's deputies. But Brother Percival stirs up trouble at the local saloons, and as the violence escalates into murder, the two struggle to keep the peace.As sharp and clear as the air over the high desert, Brimstone proves once again that Robert B. Parker is 'a force of nature' (The Boston Globe).