Chains Of Vengeance

In the deep and hidden reaches of the Aegis Forest, underground-dwelling shadmar elves have come to the surface to raid upon the unsuspecting villages of the surface elves, bringing fire and bloodshed. Thesomber Ambreaia, an elven mystic and scholar, faces this new peril after the destruction of his home and community. United with unlikely friends, the elven wizard gathers allies to fight against this force of darkness. The cycle of revenge and reprisal sets the wheels of fate in motion. What will be the final price of that retribution?

Convinced that there is a pattern in the apparently random killings of three old men, Dan Forrest, a crime writer for a New York tabloid, sets out on a cross-country investigation to discover the key to the murders and finds his own life at stake

Sights set on their next target, Kaito, Minnalis, and Shuria travel to the magical city of Karvanheim, where they find Minnalis’s traitorous childhood friends leading carefree lives. But soon, the partners in crime come across an obstacle not even Kaito could have foreseen—a merchant woman named Leone who was also summoned from Japan and remembers the world of Kaito’s first life. Still possessed of her morals, Leone attempts to interfere with the trio’s rampage of revenge... but there’s no stopping Minnalis from exacting hellish reprisal on the people who doomed her to slavery and killed her mother.

In 1965, President Lyndon Johnson insisted that "the policeman is the frontline soldier in our war against crime," and police forces, arms makers, policy makers, and crime experts heeded this call to arms, bringing weapons and practices from the arena of war back home. The Punitive Turn in American Life offers a political and cultural history of the ways in which punishment and surveillance have moved to the center of American life and become imbued with militarized language and policies. Michael S. Sherry argues that, by the 1990s, the "war on crime" had been successfully broadcast to millions of Americans at an enormous cost--to those arrested, imprisoned, or killed and to the social fabric of the nation--and that the currents of vengeance that ran through the punitive turn, underwriting torture at home and abroad, found a new voice with the election of Donald J. Trump. By 2020, the connections between war-fighting and crime-fighting remained powerful, evident in campaigns against undocumented immigrants and the militarized police response to the nationwide uprisings after George Floyd's murder. Stoked by "forever war," the punitive turn endured even as it met fiercer resistance. From the racist system of mass incarceration and the militarization of criminal justice to gated communities, public schools patrolled by police, and armies of private security, Sherry chronicles the United States' slide into becoming a meaner, punishment-obsessed nation.

One hundred years ago, in 1911, two young men lost their lives: one from a stab wound and the other by mob action. In an attempt to explain how such violence could take place in a prosperous and forward-looking community, the author first examines the growth of Thorndale as a small agricultural town on the railroad and then connects Thorndales geographical setting in central Texas with its tradition of violence. This particular lynching was unusual in that it took place at night, thereby complicating apprehension of the members of the mob. However, as a result of intervention by the governor, four men were arrested for the crime and three were tried. The lynching was also unusual because the victim was of Mexican heritage thereby inciting the Mexican community to voice its outrage and demand justice. The nature of its reaction testifies to the political awareness of the Mexican minority and also provides an insight into its perception of Anglo society.

A deathbed oath triggers a cross-country vendetta... A son swears a sacred oath of vengeance to his dying mother. He's a hitman for the Mafia, but his next string of killings won't be business. They're strictly personal. The first victim is a night watchman in New York City. Then a retired engineer near Baltimore. A Scranton jeweler. An Arizona real estate salesman. A small time Hollywood agent. All five executed with .22 slug in the head. Only one man sees the pattern. Dan Forrest, a reporter for a tabloid scandal sheet, has a hunch. Soon he's got the story of the year. But one false move and he'll be making news himself - on the obituary page. Because now he's left his typewriter for a coast-to-coast race with the killer to find the final link in the Chain of Vengeance. William Hallstead is the author of twenty-one books, including six suspense novels. He is also a flight instructor and a glider pilot, logging 1,100 flying hours.

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