It’s the 19th century on the Gulf Coast, a time of opportunity and lawlessness. After escaping the Texas brothel where she’d been a virtual prisoner, Lucinda Carter heads for Middle Bayou to meet her lover, who has a plan to make them both rich, chasing rumors of a pirate’s buried treasure.

Meanwhile Nate Cannon, a young Texas policeman with a pure heart and a strong sense of justice, is on the hunt for a ruthless killer named McGill who has claimed the lives of men, women, and even children across the frontier. Who—if anyone—will survive when their paths finally cross?

As Lucinda and Nate’s stories converge, guns are drawn, debts are paid, and Kathleen Kent delivers an unforgettable portrait of a woman who will stop at nothing to make a new life for herself.

L.VELSKOPFA ~ Henriha

IZRAIDĪTO CEĻŠ

No cikla «Lielas Lācenes deli»

IZDEVNIECĪBA «LIESMA» RĪGA 1974

No vācu valodas tulkojusi Ērika Lūse I. Kuskova ilustrācijas Vāku, titulu un priekšlapas darinājis Eglons Lūsis

 Tulkojums latviešu valodā, ^ «Liesma», 1974

"The fulfilled renown of Moby-Dick and of As I Lay Dying is augmented by Blood Meridian, since Cormac McCarthy is the worthy disciple both of Melville and Faulkner," writes esteemed literary scholar Harold Bloom in his Introduction to the Modern Library edition. "I venture that no other living American novelist, not even Pynchon, has given us a book as strong and memorable."

Cormac McCarthy's masterwork, Blood Meridian, chronicles the brutal world of the Texas-Mexico borderlands in the mid-nineteenth century. Its wounded hero, the teenage Kid, must confront the extraordinary violence of the Glanton gang, a murderous cadre on an official mission to scalp Indians and sell those scalps. Loosely based on fact, the novel represents a genius vision of the historical West, one so fiercely realized that since its initial publication in 1985 the canon of American literature has welcomed Blood Meridian to its shelf.

"A classic American novel of regeneration through violence," declares Michael Herr. "McCarthy can only be compared to our greatest writers."

«BORNEO SALA

«AVOTS»; RĪGA; 1993

RĪGA «AVOTS»

TULKOJIS Ē. VALDIS MAKSL1MIEKS I. KREFICS .

© Imants Krepcs. māksl. noformējums,

Borneo sala ir aizraujošs romāns, kurā stāstīts par jūras­braucēju piedzīvojumiem pēc kuģa bojāejas, par viņu cīņu, lai izdzīvotu, nokļūstot uz mežonīgas salas. Tā varētu būt saistoša lasāmviela skolēniem un visiem, kas interesējas par dabu, dzīvniekiem un neparastiem piedzīvojumiem.

TOMASS MAINS RĪDS

Jātnieks bez galvas

IZDEVNIECĪBA «ZINĀTNE» RIGA 1971

Reizēm gadās, ka cilvēks izlasa grāmatu, atmiņa saglabā sa­vos apcirkņos pa satura drumslai, bet autora vārds pēc kāda laika, izrādās, pagaisis. Ar .romāna «Jātnieks bez galvas» autoru tas diezin vai var notikt. Katrs, kas draugos ar daiļliteratūru, iz­dzirdējis šo nosaukumu, katrā ziņā atcerēsies izcilā amerikāņu prozista vārdu.

Tomass Mains Rīds ir pelnījis, ka viņu atceras. Latviešu va­lodā jau agrāk izdots viņa romāns «Oceola — seminolu virsai­tis». Taču tas nav viņa vienīgais darbs, kas saista uzmanību. Augstākā virsotne Maina Rīda daiļradē ir romāns «Jātnieks bez galvas».

Šis romāns vispirms simpātisks ar stingro vēsturisko pamatu, uz kura tas būvēts: pagājušā gadsimta 50. gadu Teksasa, kas zau­dējusi neatkarību un spiesta vilkt ASV jūgu. Ne mazāku mag­nētisko spēku slēpj sižets, kuru autors prot vērpt grodu ar ap­skaužamu prasmi, spilgti kolorētie tēli un atturīgie, bet iedar­bīgie dabas zīmējumi.

Inesis Grants

Romānā viscaur jūtama ievingrināta meistara roka un humā­nista nostāja pret labo un ļauno. Labajam jāuzvar — tādu de­vīzi sludina Mains Rīds, un tas ir vēl viens moments, kas ieprie­cina lasītāju, vienalga, vai tas pieder pie vecākās vai jaunākās paaudzes, vai stāv uz robežas starp abām.

Mainam RīdAm raksturīgajiem iestarpinātajiem mednieku stāstiem. Samākslotas izskatās romāna «laimīgās» beigas: nabaga mustangu mednieks negaidot kūst par bagātu baronetu, un līdz ar to ir iespējamas viņa laulības ar Poindekstera meitu. Nav attīstīta Džeraldā iemīlējušās jaunās meksikānietes sižeta līnija.

Par spīti šiem trūkumiem, «Jātnieks bez galvas» ir laba grāmata. Tajā no» sodīti buržuāziskās Amerikas necilvēciskie tikumi, to caurauž ticība godīgo un drosmīgo cilvēku spēkiem. Viens no viņiem — Zebs Stamps —r atklāj Kolhauna noziegumu, glābj un attaisno nevainīgi notiesāto Džeraldu.

Sajā romānā izpaužas Mainam Rīdām piemītošā taisnības mīlestība, kritiskā attieksme pret kapitālisma vilku likumiem, simpātijas pret cilvēkiem, kas cieš no tiem. Sīs jūtas sasilda Maina Rīda labākās grāmatas, arī romānu «Jātnieks bez galvas», kuru pamatoti uzskata par vienu no raksturīgākajiem Maina Rīda darbiem.

R. Samarins

No angļu valodas tulkojis Z. Mākslinieciski noformējis V. Ilustrējis N. Kočergins

T.Main-Rids

OCEOLA- SEMINOLU VIRSAITIS

LATVIJAS VALSTS IZDEVNIECĪBA RĪGĀ 1960

МАЙН РИД

Oцеола, вождь

СЕМИНОЛОВ Повесть о стране цветов

На латышском языке

Mākslinieks V. VEIDE. , No angļu valodas tulkojusi R: KOKA.

SKALPU MEDNIEKI

«AVOTS»; RĪGA; 1993

RĪGA «AVOTS»

TULKOJIS Ē. VALDIS MAKSL1MIEKS I. KREFICS .

© Imants Krepcs. māksl. noformējums,

Bēgšana un pakaļdzīšanās, cīniņi uz dzīvību un nāvi ar indiāņiem, dzīve prērijā — šādu eksotisku ainu T. Mains Rīds piedāvā romānā «Skalpu mednieki». Grāmata mūsu lasītājam var likties neparasta, jo autors attaisno indiāņu kā īpaši ne­žēlīgu un morāli mežonīgu cilvēku iznīcināšanas iespējamību.

VOLUME THREE OF THE BORDER TRILOGY In Cities of the Plain, two men marked by the boyhood adventures of All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing now stand together, between their vivid pasts and uncertain futures, to confront a country changing beyond recognition. In the fall of 1952, John Grady Cole and Billy Parham are cowboys on a New Mexico ranch encroached upon from the north by the military. On the southern horizon are the mountains of Mexico, where one of the men is drawn again and again, in this story of friendships and passion, to a love as dangerous as it is inevitable. 'In a lovely and terrible landscape of natural beauty and impending loss we find John Grady; a young cowboy of the old school, trusted by men and horses, and a fragile young woman, whose salvation becomes his obsession. McCarthy makes the sweeping plains a miracle' Scotsman 'This haunting, deeply felt novel completes one of the literary masterworks of the 1990s' Daily Telegraph 'The completed trilogy emerges as a landmark in American literature' Guardian

In 1866, only men uprooted by war had reason to ride into Tubacca, Arizona, a nondescript town as shattered and anonymous as the veterans drifting through it. So when Drew Rennie, newly discharged from Forrest's Confederate scouts, arrived leading everything he owned behind him—his thoroughbred stud Shiloh, a mare about to foal, and a mule—he knew his business would not be questioned. To anyone in Tubacca there could be only one extraordinary thing about Drew, and that he could not reveal: his name, Rennie.

Drew had come west from Kentucky to find a father he had thought dead until the year before. Kinship with a man like Hunt Rennie, however—the legendary Don Cazar, owner of a matchless range and prize stallions—was not a claim to be made quickly or lightly. Posing as Drew Kirby the young veteran contrived to get himself and his friend Anse hired as corral hands at Rennie's Range, but he was hardly prepared for the suspicion and danger which stood between him and his father. As hotheaded as his father, Drew was ready to move on to California—until the day all proof of his Rennie name was stolen from him, and his unwarranted arrest for horse-thieving brought on the accusations of the one man whose trust he needed.

Andre Norton's dramatically portrayed the last year of the Confederacy, when brave men like Drew Rennie met defeat with honor. In this sequel, Drew's struggle to establish his identity and begin life anew in a raw, unsettled land reflects the courage of thousands of rootless men set adrift by the Civil War.

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.

After the bloody confrontation in Appaloosa, Everett Hitch heads into the afternoon sun and ends up in Resolution, an Old West town so new the dust has yet to settle. It's the kind of town that doesn't have much in the way of commerce, except for a handful of saloons and some houses of ill repute. Hitch takes a job as lookout at Amos Wolfson's Blackfoot Saloon and quickly establishes his position as protector of the ladies who work the backrooms - as well as a man unafraid to stand up to the enforcer sent down from the O'Malley copper mine.

Though Hitch makes short work of hired gun Koy Wickman, tensions continue to mount, so that even the self-assured Hitch is relieved by the arrival in town of his friend Virgil Cole. When greedy mine owner Eamon O'Malley threatens the loose coalition of local ranchers and starts buying up Resolution's few businesses, Hitch and Cole find themselves in the middle of a makeshift war between O'Malley's men and the ranchers. In a place where law and order don't exist, Hitch and Cole must make their own, guided by their sense of duty, honor, and friendship.

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, proves once again that Robert B. Parker is 'a force of nature' ().

For years, Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch have ridden roughshod over rabble-rousers and gun hands in troubled towns like Appaloosa, Resolution, and Brimstone. Now, newly appointed as Territorial Marshalls, they find themselves traveling by train through the Indian Territories. Their first marshaling duty starts out as a simple mission to escort Mexican prisoners to the border, but when the Governor of Texas, his wife and daughters climb aboard with their bodyguards and $500,000 in tow, their journey suddenly becomes a lot more complicated.

The problem is Bloody Bob Brandice. He and Virgil have had it out before, an encounter that left Brandice face-down in the street with two .44 slugs lodged in him. Now, twelve years later on a night train struggling uphill in a thunderstorm, Brandice is back — and he’s not alone. Cole and Hitch find themselves in the midst of a heist with a horde of very bad men, two beautiful young hostages, and a man with a vendetta he’s determined to carry out.

SAT-OKS

SĀĻO KLINŠU ZEME

IZDEVNIECĪBA «LIESMA» RĪGA 1967

No krievu valodas tulkojusi A. OZOLA-SAKSE Vāku un titulu zīmējis Z. KAMPARS Ilustrējis V. ANDREJENKOVS

«Sāļo Klinšu zeme» ir autobiogrāfisks stāsts, ko uzrakstījis Sat-Oks, indiāņu ševanēzu cilts virsaiša un poļu revolucionāres dēls.

«Sat-Oks» ir indiāņu vārds un nozīmē «Garā Spalva». So vārdu mazais indiāņu zēns — uti — ieguvis niknā sadursmē ar varenu ērgli.

Aizraujoši un poētiski Sat-Oks stāsta par savu neparasto bērnību, ko pavadījis Kanādas mūža­mežos, par mednieku cilts dzīvi, tikumiem un pa­ražām, par lieliskiem indiāņu jaunekļiem karotā­jiem, drosmīgiem un vīrišķīgiem, kas ir lepni uz savu brīvību, pazīst skaudros meža likumus, ir hu­māni nepieciešamajā cīņā ar varenajiem biezokņu iemītniekiem. Bet biezoknis — tas ir ševanēzu cilts mājas, viņu tēvu un vectēvu mājas, viņu dzimtene.