Wild Justice

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It begins as a routine trip to South Africa. It ends in a nightmare for 400 passengers taken hostage. The hijacker is a beautiful pawn for an elusive figure-codename Caliph, whose campaign of terror has just begun. And the one man who rescued Flight 070 is the only man who can stop Caliph dead in his tracks.

His name is Major Peter Stride, commanding agent of a crack team of anti-terrorist operatives. He's used to doing battle-and winning. But when his help is sought by the mysterious widow of one of Caliph's victims, and his own daughter is kidnapped, Stride plunges into a darker and more personal war than ever before. A war that will take him across the oceans and continents, closer to a shocking betrayal...and closer still to a madman who has the power to destroy the world and who knows Stride's every move- down to what could be his last one...

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International intrigue, power-hungry villians, and killer spies........2007-09-03

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Power struggles on a global level, evil hidden around every twist and turn, a hero with guts and sensitivity, and a heroine who's a trained killer, international spy, and a fashion maven with brains. Although the premise is typically otherworldly, the story never rests from start to finish, you get to travel to and fro on a Lear following our two protagonists around the planet as the battle an unidentifiable evil of global proportions. Following Stride and Magda is anything but exhausting and filled with thrills to the final scene.

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The twists and turns. This one was hard to put down

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Not much

A cleverly designed adventure story.......2007-05-16

There were only fifteen passengers for the British Airways flight at Victoria Airport on the island of Mahe in the oceanic republic of the Seychelles. But one alone made the others seem insignificant by the sheer splendour of her physical presence. Once aboard she becomes a brutal and fanatical terrorist, spearhead of an international organisation intent on holding the world's powers to ransom. As the search for the power brain controlling the terrorists heightens, the explosive passions aroused by the beautiful hijacker reach an unforgettable climax in the sun scorched deserts of Galilee. Top suspense and action with a very well designed plot.

Tops, great seller, fast ship! .......2006-02-24

Great book on the issues of pirates stealing elephant ivory. Informative about Africa as a whole. Great read! Smith gets a bit preachy at times, but you learn about the ivory trade, Africa, and it is suspenseful to boot! Tops!

WILD JUSTICE = WILD ACTION.......2006-01-03

I am a Wilbur Smith fan since reading THE SEVENTH SCROLL which was wonderful. This book I had a hard time on the first two chapters and then it takes off and really provided excitement. One of my favorite scenes is when the main character's daughter is kidnapped and he must find her with few clues. I really liked
this book and it stays with you. Also the tension when he suspects his love interest of being a terrorist was acute.

Besides the 7th SCROLL Hungry as the Sea was a huge hit with me
as well as most of his other books. Smith is able to write action scenes that really stick with one's imagination.

I am eagerly awaiting his next novel.

Not your usual Wilbur.......2005-08-24

I'm a big "Willllburrr" fan, but this book was disappointing. This book was was not as engaging as his historical novels (which I ADORE), & parts of it were ludicrously implausible.

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Butchery
I Rifled Through this Book
Real page turner!
Wild Justice
A Good Page-Turner!

Wild Justice
Phillip Margolin
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ASIN: 0061030635
Release Date: 2001-07-31

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When a killing field is unearthed in the Oregon woods, it's linked to a Portland surgeon whose increasingly aggressive behavior and explosive temper have already drawn the attention of his colleagues. Neophyte attorney Amanda Jaffe takes second chair to her father, a successful criminal lawyer retained by Dr. Vincent Cardoni when he is charged with multiple counts of murder. The victims have one thing in common: they are missing vital organs, which were clearly harvested by an expert surgeon. In this explosive and fast-paced suspense thriller, the forensic evidence against Cardoni is so convincing that even after his acquittal on a technicality, the reader, like Amanda, is sure of his guilt. And when a similar field of mutilated bodies turns up years later, Cardoni is again the primary suspect. But Cardoni has disappeared, and this time it's his former wife, Justine Castle, who's implicated in the new crimes, and Amanda who's retained as the lead attorney in the case.

The particulars of the killings are so similar to the first set of murders that Amanda is convinced Cardoni is involved. When he is found to be working at the same hospital where he was once a promising surgeon (this time as a custodian and under an assumed name), she draws the logical conclusion. But when she finds Cardoni's severed hand at the scene of the crimes, she is forced to rethink the assumptions on which her defense of the doctor's ex-wife is based. Could Justine, in fact, be the killer? Author Phillip Margolin's newest book moves at an almost frantic pace. Bodies pile up, evidence mounts, and everything points to Cardoni's guilt until the end, a stunner that surprises Amanda as well as the reader. This chilling, deftly crafted novel will hold the reader's attention to the last page. --Jane Adams

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Seven years ago, Phillip Margolin seized the imagination of thriller readers everywhere with his chilling breakout bestseller, Gone, but Not Forgotten. After five subsequent New York Times bestsellers, Margolin now returns to the haunting terrain of Gone, but Not Forgotten with a mesmerizing tour de force of psychological suspense, an electrifying tale of revenge and retribution that shows a master storyteller at the very peak of his craft.

Thursday: Subject is still combative after four days of applied pain, sleep deprivation and minimal food.

Vice squad detective Bobby Vasquez, for months on the trail of a slippery underworld figure, receives an anonymous tip that directs him to a mountain cabin. He races through the idyllic Oregon woods, expecting to close the book on a long-standing vendetta. What he finds instead opens a Pandora's box of horror that will haunt him to his dying day.

8:10: Subject bound and gaffed and placed in upstairs closet at end of hall. Turned out lights in house, drove off, then parked and doubled back. Watched from woods.

Within hours, Vincent Cordoni -- a brilliant surgeon with a history of violence and drug abuse -- is arrested for a heinous crime. Facing a seemingly insurmountable wall of evidence, he turns to Portland's top criminal defense attorney, Frank Jaffe-who, along with his ambitious daughter, Amanda, must put on an inspired defense. Amanda's first taste of criminal defense work is as intoxicating as it is chilling, but it raises moral questions she's loath to address. Is she defending an innocent man? Or is she using her considerable skills to set a monster free? Then Cardoni disappears under bizarre circumstances. Four years later, a second set of murders has begun ....

8:55: Subject exits house, naked and barefoot, armed with kitchen knife. Remarkable strength of character. Breaking her will be a challenge.

Has Cardoni resurfaced to ply his deadly trade anew? Is there a copycat killer? Or has the real killer been someone else all along? The police will do everything they can to stop Cardoni -- but they have to find him first.

Following a twisting trail of clues, including a harrowing diary that clinically records the killer's horrible deeds, Amanda Jaffe and Bobby Vasquez join the hunt-and themselves become targets of the twenty-first century's first genuinely monstrous psychopath.

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'Seven years ago, Phillip Margolin seized the imagination of thriller readers everywhere with his chilling breakout bestseller, Gone, but Not Forgotten. After five subsequent New York Times bestsellers, Margolin now returns to the haunting terrain of Gone, but Not Forgotten with a mesmerizing tour de force of psychological suspense, an electrifying tale of revenge and retribution that shows a master storyteller at the very peak of his craft. Thursday: Subject is still combative after four days of applied pain, sleep deprivation and minimal food. Vice squad detective Bobby Vasquez, for months on the trail of a slippery underworld figure, receives an anonymous tip that directs him to a mountain cabin. He races through the idyllic Oregon woods, expecting to close the book on a long-standing vendetta. What he finds instead opens a Pandora's box of horror that will haunt him to his dying day.

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Butchery.......2007-08-23

I have read several Phillip Margolin books and liked them.

But this one is too much.

Stolen body parts. A self-amputated hand. A re-attached OTHER hand. Not one, not two, but many basement butcher shops--for butchering people.

Plastic surgery to evade the mob. Not one but two people planting serial-killer clues to frame others.

People getting shot and dying instantly. People getting shot and not dying at all.

Mob enforcers dressed as doctors. Someone stabbed through the ear with a bed-spring.

YES!

All this and more in one book, to ruin your lunch.

Margolin is a master of the twist and double-twist, the unexpected swerve at the end.

But in this book, I foresaw the real killer 50 pages in, and found the zigs and zags tiresome.

Two stars off for one or more serial killers. Tired, tired plot device.

One star off for telegraphing his punches.

One star off for too damn much blood and gore. Revolting. Laughable.

On the plus side, Amanda and her father are quite likable.

I Rifled Through this Book.......2007-08-08

This is the first book by Margolin I've read (I just purchased two more)! What a fantastic read! A horrific villain and a sympathetic protagonist. An amazingly fast read. One part Thomas Harris and two parts John Grisham. I suspect I'll read all of Margolin's books now.

Real page turner!.......2007-05-07

This thriller had me hooked & I couldn't wait to read what happened next. It takes you through twists & turns and has you guessing until the end. This was the first Philip Margolin book I've read & absolutely loved it!

Frank & Amanda Jaffe take on Vincent Cardoni, a surgeon, as their client who is arrested for murder. Later, Cardoni's hand is found but no body is found. A few years later, the same type of murders are being committed. This time his ex-wife is arrested for the crimes & Amanda must prove that she's innocent. With the help of an investigator, things start to unravel. Is Vincent dead or alive? Did he or his ex-wife commit these murders? Was this a set-up? It had me hooked & kept me guessing.

Wild Justice.......2005-10-07

First of all, Phillip Margolin is one of the very best of his genre. I would say anyone who loves a good scary crime novel should read this. I don't find many page turners, but this one was. In fact, all Margolin's books are exceptional. For a "look under the bed and around the room in the dark" kind of read, read this. I don't like to give away plots or endings, so from one scary book reader to another, try it.

A Good Page-Turner!.......2005-07-28

A fast-paced read that is great for the beach or a long plane ride. The apparent killer is so obvious that you wonder if this person is really the killer.

With what one reads in the newspapers today, the entire story does not seem all that far fetched, with terror for terror's sake, unspeakable cruelty, and innovation in staying a step ahead of the law. A good page-turner.

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Comprehensive, colorful guide, but hard to use
Wild Flowers of NC
Wild flowers of North Carolina

Wild Flowers of North Carolina, 2nd Ed.
William S. Justice , C. Ritchie Bell , and Anne H. Lindsey
Manufacturer: The University of North Carolina Press
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ASIN: 0807829331
Release Date: 2005-05-14

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This classic botanical handbook, originally compiled by the late William S. Justice and C. Ritchie Bell, pairs color photographs with descriptions of the wild flowers and flowering trees, shrubs, vines, herbs, and weeds found in North Carolina and many other eastern states, from Delaware to Georgia. Entries include information on habitat, range, size, months of bloom, and features for identification. For this new edition, Bell and Anne H. Lindsey have included 100 additional species and expanded the information in previous entries to address developments in the field of plant conservation, providing comments on endangered and protected species, medicinal uses, the cultivation of species in a wild garden, and the commercial availability of nursery-grown natives.

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Comprehensive, colorful guide, but hard to use .......2006-08-20

This guidebook to wild flowers in North Carolina has about 500 species illustrated, each with a description and a small photograph of the flower and plant. The guide deserves high marks for the number of species included and the scholarship which went into describing each by location, blooming date, and other information. Brief tidbits concerning medicinal uses, edibiity, and folklore of the plant are included in many descriptions. Indexed are both scientific and common names of each plant.

However, the guide is nearly worthless for the field identification of flowers. There needs to be some sort of key or pattern to help with identification. There seems no rhyme nor reason I can discern with the order in which the flowers are described. It would be a lot better if the flowers were grouped by blooming date and color, e.g. yellow flowers that appear in May should be together as should purple flowers blooming in September.

So, if you want to go into your backyard and identify what is blooming there you will need a field guide, not this book.

Smallchief

Wild Flowers of NC.......2003-10-23

Excellent reference book for use in describing flowers growing in North Carolina at certain times of year.

Wild flowers of North Carolina.......2000-04-17

This is a good book to bring along on day hikes. Clear photos and identifying information. It is not about gardening wildflowers.

Urban Wilds: Gardener's Stories Of The Struggle For Land And Justice

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ASIN: 0972707204

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Under pavement. Under a shimmering crust of broken glass and weeds, the dark earth endures. We are dispossessed of our most basic human right - to cultivate the land. But in cities across North America, people are taking back this right and resisting corporate control of food and livelihood. Here are some of their stories. From the Motor City to Cuba, Oakland to the Bronx, here are the tales of digging for revolution in the belly of the beast, and radical rural organizing, guerilla gardening and community development. All in a dense, oversized, copiously illustrated tome. A veritable feast. Now in a new, expanded and updated lavish second edition featuring the best of The Guerilla Graywater Girls Guide to Water, urban beekeeping, medicinal herbs, balcony gardening and an illustrated guide to urban permaculture. "...an inspirational compilation that encourages people to transform cities into greener places.' [Utne Reader]

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If it doesn't have punctuation in the title, it's not really Faulkner
Modernist Faulkner
"The Wild Palms"--used as a meditation by Thomas Merton
Buy it, read it
A Great Introduction to Faulkner

Wild Palms
William Faulkner
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ASIN: 0394605136
Release Date: 1984-11-12

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If it doesn't have punctuation in the title, it's not really Faulkner.......2006-12-11

I supposed this was not a major work because I hadn't heard about it before. Nope, it's major. The most popular form of this book is to rip it in half and such that Old Man is by itself as a short novel. That's really a shame. Old Man, is a rollicking story of a man swept away on the Mississippi during the flooding of New Orleans in 1927 (Hoover's deft handling of the crisis is a large part of the reason that he became president). However, the story doubles its power when it is juxtaposed with the story of two lovers flooded out of civilization by their aching need for each other. You get two uncontrollable forces of nature, both horrifiying to encounter, and both demolishing the prisons within which the protagonists of each story are previously held (let's say the medical career path of one, and actual prison for the other). A primary question in each is whether it's better to be back in the prison or not, and there's a strong case for yes in each.

Both stories are good, but what makes this spectacular is simply the fact that the experiment is attempted. Who does things like this? There's a thematic link between the stories, but it's fairly loose. However, the back and forth interspersion paces the stories perfectly. In non-stop presentation, I think the tone of either of these would be too much to take. As it is, though, this is actually a page turner. More impressively, these aren't two stories that were slapped together (a la the Golden Slumbers medley (God forgive me) or Scenes from an Italian Restaurant) but were written at the same time after a major heartbreak. There's also the greatest two word last line of any novel that I'm aware of. I won't spoil it.

This isn't a great introduction to Faulkner, but it's a fantastic example of why people who love him love him. Milan Kundera singled this one out, maybe not as a favorite, but as a book that should be more highly recognized. I couldn't agree more. Faulkner has the problem of too many masterpieces. At this stage of his career, it's hard to ignore any of them.

Modernist Faulkner.......2006-10-08

Wild Palms

This is a Faulkner must-read, but not without some problems. "Wild Palms" is as modernist a novel as anything by Virginia Woolf. The alternating stories - which seem to have no surface relationship whatsoever, is daring and artsy stuff. But does it work? The "Wild Palms" portion tells the story of two lovers, one who is married, who cast everything to the wind in order to live a bohemian life devoted to Love. I noticed one reviewer commented that theirs was a selfless love. Quite the contrary. Oh, within their bubble, Charlotte and Harry are as devoted to each other as Dante's Paolo and Francesca. And like those two, Harry and Charlotte are immolated within their own choices, their own lusts. The impact on others is never a real consideration, as they act out, with heroic resolve, their devotion - to Love. There are passages within the Wild Palms portion that are simply soaring in their beauty. It will have you recalling, A Farewell to Arms, especially the part that takes place in the Western mountains.

Old Man, which is much anthologized and thus regrettably removed from the context of this novel, in contrast to the tragic Wild Palms, is almost like low comedy - Faulkner style. There is of course powerful writing - especially the great descriptions of the Flood, that sounds like a King James appendix from Genesis. What's interesting is how the characters of Old Man are never really revealed as they are in Wild Palms. The poor convict, who shepherds the woman and her infant child along, is always having bad stuff happen to him. And he deals with it. And the woman herself, you hardly even know. She's a presence, a responsibility, a reminder if you will, of perhaps a higher order that we as humans should respond to. The two operate as archetypes more than multi-faceted characters, but archetypes have great power, as any reader of the Bible knows. On the other hand, Charlotte and Harry serve only themselves, and we are intensely aware of every shift in emotion -- and its cause. Faulkner clearly was aware of this contrast, and how you chew on it will determine what you think of the novel - and it is a novel, not just two separate stories. Faulkner links the two with Hope, as Harry makes a choice while looking through the prison bars at the end: Grief is better than nothing, which is a no-brainer for the convict of Old Man. What is also interesting is how Faulkner timed the portions. Wild Palms, which starts the book, takes place in 1937. Old Man takes place in 1927. Only ten years separates the two, but the time of Old Man is already nearly a mythic one, much like the Old Testament. The 1937 portion is hardly New Testament, and more likely an indictment from Faulkner. The modern world, with all its dehumanizing aspects, presses down and around Harry and Charlotte. There is No Exit - except the one they've sworn to as a couple. And there is something in that, however charged with Right and Wrong such a choice may be. At least Harry and Charlotte are still human. Read it.

"The Wild Palms"--used as a meditation by Thomas Merton.......2006-01-26

This book was recommended to me a few months ago by Thomas Merton, a Trappist monk who died in 1968. How this happened is as follows: I was looking through some book cases in the back of a local Catholic church, when I found some audiotapes of lectures given by Thomas Merton to monks in training during the early 60's. I had read his biography, "The Seven Storey Mountain," and wanted to hear his voice and get an idea of what he was like. I listened to many of his tapes--some were good, some not so good--but one of the tapes, titled "The Deluge," was particularly interesting to me. It discussed how the monks could use the writings of William Faulkner as inspiration for meditation on the eternal Truths of the human condition. Most of Merton's discussion was about Faulkner's book "The Wild Palms." I recommend Merton's tape "The Deluge" for those who want an interesting perspective about this book.

As for my comments about this book, I believe it is one of the most pro-life books I have ever read, particularly with its theme of abortion in "Wild Palms" contrasted with the theme of the birth of a thriving infant during the flood in "The Old Man." Also, this book shows that you never know where you will encounter virtue. The convict displays great virtue in "The Old Man" while the modern, educated people in "Wild Palms" show an obvious lack of it.

In summary, if you liked "The Wild Palms," you should listen to Merton's tape, "The Deluge." You can probably still get this through the Merton Society.

Buy it, read it.......2004-10-08

This is the 4th or 5th Faulkner novel I've read. I think it should be better known. The tile of the novel is important, The Wild Palms: [If I FORGET Thee, Jerusalem]. Memory is an important theme of the novel. Pay attention to it. "The Wild Palms" is a New Testament parable, of sorts. The other novella, "Old Man," is an Old Testament parable. Escape is an important theme. Wilbourne (=Will Born, Still Born) and Charlotte travel to New Orleans, San Antonio, Chicago, etc. trying to escape. From what? From whom? On the flip side, the convict can't escape, he's a convict. But he gets an opportunity to escape in the big flood (Noah) but doesn't. Why doesn't he try to escape? Charlotte should be compared to the woman with child the convict "saves" in the flood. Abortion is a theme. Mysogony may also be a theme. Is it? Willbourne is weak, Charlotte is strong. The convict is stupid--his girlfriend, is she smart, in a calculating way? In the end, is Faulkner obliquely saying the wrong people "hooked up," that Willbourne should have ideally met the woman who has the baby, and the convict should have met Charlotte, who in the beginning of the novel just want to "escape" with Willbourne?

If you keep the above points in mind as you read the novel, perhaps it will draw you in, then you too can drown in the flood of myriad meanings and multiplicity of inferences. Overall, a good, if not great novel. Dark, brooding, nihilistic--very tasty, though! Enjoy!!

A Great Introduction to Faulkner.......2002-07-08

I love this guy Faulkner. I read another half chapter of The Wild Palms on the train.
Never read anything by him before.

Faulkner's characters don't sit around and examine their navel. They just Do. Yes act on their passions they Do. His characters are not beautiful people. They have scars, injuries, poverty, depraved morals, injustices, suffering upon suffering. What makes the Wild Palms beautiful is the passion of people living life right on the bone.

A married woman is planning on abandoning her husband and two kids and running away with another man. The other man asks her what about her two kids. On page 41, she answers, "I know the answer to that and I know that I cant change that answer and I dont think I can change me because the second time I ever saw you I learned what I had read in books but I never had actually believed: that love and suffering are the same thing and that the value of love is the sum of what you have to pay for it and anytime you get it cheap you have cheated yourself." No Catholic saint-mystic ever said it better. Pretty good for a crazy Protestant drunk.

You hear talk about stream-of consciousness with James Joyce and Jack Kerouac and so on. This guy Faulkner captures the way our minds think and our mouths talk more realistically than anybody.

Of Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor said, "Nobody wants his mule and wagon stalled on the same track when the Dixie Limited is roaring down."

Something about this book reminds me of the Stephen King material set in the south, the Southern-ness of it and the same kind of characters.

The omniscient author technique is frowned on in serious, modern literature. I don't knw if this aesthetic rule post-dates Faulkner, but he uses it to no ill effect. There's very little difference between when a character is speaking and Faulkner is speaking. It gives the effect of us reading the characters thoughts rather than Faulkner telling us what they are. It works perfectly.

Few to none of the characters in any of the standard, best-seller type books have any inner life. When most of the authors try it, they are quite pathetic at it. I suppose that's because the authors have no inner life themselves. Faulkner does not show us the inner life of any of his characters either. However, as Faulker presents his characters, the reader induces their inner drives from their actions. It works very, very well. Stephen King's characters are like this also.

Stephen King by the way is very steeped in American literary tradition. Essentially, he's New England gothic. He is to Nathaniel Hawthorne what the Frankenstein, the monster, is to Dr. Frankenstein. King is clothed in Hawthorne, bathed in Faulkner and inebriated with Poe. To look at the connection further, I suggest you read the short stories of Hawthorne.

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the romeo and juliet of the deep south

The Wild Life of Sailor and Lula (Gifford, Barry)
Barry Gifford
Manufacturer: Grove Press
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ASIN: 0802134548

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the romeo and juliet of the deep south.......2005-07-15

a follow-up to "wild at heart," the book that inspired the movie by the same name, directed by david lynch. this book is written in mini-stories that follow lula, pace and sailor as they grow up, skipping great spans of time at the climax of each story to bring you to the next noteworthy event in their lives. intertwined themes and characters make for an adventure you'll not soon forget.

the first story is called "sailor's holiday" and was previously published as a stand-alone book. if you're navigating your way through the wild world of the former denizens of big tuna, you'll not need to duplicate your purchase. just read "the wild life of sailor and lula" and you'll have "sailor's holiday" as well.

anyway, with that little piece of advice out of the way, i have to say that i LOVE this book. "wild at heart" was a fun read, and normally i would recommend reading the book before you see the movie, but in this case, i have to say it was pretty fun imagining laura dern and nicholas cage growing old together.

some of the changes made in the movie version negate plot twists that we get in this book, but like i said, very fun to read. another interesting aspect: mr. gifford has a sparse writing style. the chapters tend to be no more than 2 or 3 pages, so where most writers would leave you feeling like you'd missed something by having so few words telling their story, he manages to capture only the most important details and let them do the talking.

another book that ties in is "perdita durango." it follows one of the minor characters from "wild at heart." it's also been made into a movie "dance with the devil." so there, i've spoiled your weekend. go check out these books and movies, lay off the booze, get some tasty snacks and frosty beverages and stay in the house for a change.

A Wild Justice (Harlequin Historical, No. 617)

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A great read
A Great Romantic Read
A Wild Justice
Very disappointing
plot premise a tad implausible, but still a fun read

A Wild Justice (Harlequin Historical, No. 617)
Gail Ranstrom
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ASIN: 0373292171

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A great read.......2003-09-13

I loved the book. It was well done and the language put me in the Regency period. It was not just a comedy of manners so typical of the Regency novel (and part of the reason I love them), but Ms Ranstrom added suspense and it spiced up the romance with a goodly amount of tension. I liked the characters, and loved the hero. I like books where women have friends and can count on each other to do the right thing. I'd recommend this book to everyone.

A Great Romantic Read.......2003-09-12

A Wild Justice is a fun, light-hearted read. I loved Lady Annica in her trousers, climbing down her trellis to escape into the night on her wild adventures. The woman is fearless and just as we'd like all our heroines to be. Tristan, is gorgeous, sexy, and to die for. How could she possibly resist him, once he set his sights and his not-so-noble intentions on Annica? I highly recommend buying this book, curling up in front of the fire with a hot cup of tea and reading it from cover to cover. Enjoy!!

A Wild Justice.......2003-09-12

I decided to write this review after reading Ms. Ranstrom's second book, and the reason I did was that I thought that readers should be aware that we have a delightful new author who will keep us entertained and enchanted for years to come. As she continues to develop her unique style, who knows where Ms. Ranstrom will end up. I, for one, can not wait to see what she does next, and of course I will always look forward to more of the Wednesday Legue.

Very disappointing.......2003-08-22

This book was such a disappointment, totally amaturish in nature, plot was very week and stiff. It is not a book that I could recommend to anyone, I considered it a waste of time and money to even buy it.

The plot is unprofessional, just wanders and wanders thru and is so predictable! ...

plot premise a tad implausible, but still a fun read.......2002-07-20

The premise of this historical romance novel is a little implausible (I don't think young ladies could have gone scurrying about all over London proper without some male family member noticing something and putting his foot down), but I rather enjoyed reading this book. The novel revolves around two subplots that are interconnected -- the first subplot involves a group of ladies hell bent on avenging wronged women; while the second subplot revolves around the pursuit of one of these young ladies by a very marriage minded gentleman. The second subplot is a rather predictable one -- you can almost guess what's going happen with each chapter as it does follow the usual formulae very closely. However, what really lifts "A Wild Justice" out of the realm of the ordinary, and makes it refreshingly different and worth reading, is the subplot involving ladies' pursuit of some much needed but rather 'wild' justice.

Lady Annica Sayles is a bit of a hellion: she smokes, gambles, flirts (but discreetly, of course) and has absolutely no intention of marrying. What Lady Annica is absolutely passionate about however, is meting out some much needed justice on the behalf of wronged women, on certain cads in society. In this, she is ably assisted by her friends: Charity Wadlow, Constance Bennington, Grace Forbrush and Lady Sarah Hunter. Currently, the ladies are pursuing the 'gentlemen' who raped Lady Sarah. However, another case has also caught their attention: that of the mysterious disappearance of a governess. Unanimously, the ladies agree to investigate the woman's disappearance, esp since it seems to the third such disappearance in a matter of weeks.

Elsewhere, Tristan Sinclair, the Earl of Auberville, has decided to throw his hat into the matrimonial ring. Bu he doesn't want just any wife. No, he needs a wife who would be able to be a successful society hostess, but who is trustworthy and honourable, and who has no desire to have a husband constantly hanging about her elbow. For the earl actually works for the Foreign Office, and is constantly undertaking some investigation or the other. The last thing he needs is a clingy wife who will interfere with his work. And when a friend brings Lady Annica to his notice, the earl decides that she is exactly the wife for him. (The fact that he finds her very desirable doesn't really come into it.) But how to convince a lady who is vehemently against marriage to change her mind?

The novel follows the earl's determined pursuit of Lady Annica, as she tries to juggle her confused feelings about him and marriage, with her determination to bring certain wrongdoers to justice. As I've already noted, that bit is rather formulaic. The bits I really liked dealt with Lady Annica and her friends as they wrestled with the task at hand. This was really nicely done, and showed how women too could be organised, competent and intelligent. And that's what made reading this novel such a joy for me -- the friendship that these women shared and their commitment to their 'cause.'

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This well-crafted history chronicles the lives and fortunes of the Chiricahua Apache, an Arizona warrior band removed from its lands in 1886 after Geronimo's famous uprising. Treated as prisoners of war, even though most were noncombatants, the Chiricahuas were forcibly moved to Florida and later to Oklahoma. They were then officially merged with the Mescalero Apache band and given a small reservation in New Mexico. Seemingly consigned to oblivion as a distinct people, the Chiricahua were restored in some measure in the late 1940s, when President Harry Truman ordered the creation of a commission to consider Native American claims to lost lands. After years of legal wrangling, in the late 1970s the federal government settled with the Chiricahuas, paying, the authors maintain, far less than the Indians deserved after decades of imposed hardship. Lieder and Page tell the story well, offering an important contribution to recent Native American history.

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In the long, anguished history of the American Indian, the events comprising the resistance of the Chiricahua Apaches against European encroachment and their subsequent punishment at the hands of the United States were the most heroic, violent, expensive . . . and tragic. As settlers swarmed into the Southwest, the Apaches were forced oV their ancestral lands. Led by the infamous warrior Geronimo and outnumbered by five hundred to one, a small group of renegade Apaches waged a fierce rebellion against the U.S. Army for more than a year. Finally surrendering in 1886, Geronimo and the rest of the Chiricahuas--including those who didn't participate in the insurrection and even those who actively assisted the Army--were held as prisoners of war for twenty-three years in far-off Florida, Alabama, and, later, Oklahoma.

After World War II, Congress felt obliged to establish a forum specifically to hear and remedy the complaints of Indian tribes against the United States, and, in 1947, Harry S. Truman signed into law the Indian Claims Commission. Focusing on the unique claims of the Chiricahua Apaches, Wild Justice examines the personalities involved in and decisions made by this extraordinary tribunal--the first time any national government established a court to redress grievances of its native people--and the efforts made by hundreds of other tribes to gain restitution.

Jake Page, who has written extensively on the South-west Indians, and Michael Lieder, a legal scholar, bring to light this little-known saga in American history. The Chiricahua were represented by an unlikely pair of lawyers: Israel Weissbrodt, born to illiterate Jewish emigrants from Poland, educated at Columbia University, and trained by William O. Douglas; and David Cobb, a Mayflower descendant and Harvard graduate. When the government misdated the taking of the Apache lands and left an opening for legal wrangling, this odd couple pounced. The result was a $22 million settlement, forty times what the tribe had asked for--a spectacular sum in total, but, divided among several thousand Apaches, it proved slim atonement, and it was at best a bittersweet victory.

Rather than negotiating the Indian claims and considering present needs, the United States insisted on battling over ancient grievances in the inherently adversarial Anglo-American legal system, which was incapable of grasping the Indians' way of life. The very concept of land ownership was foreign to the Indians, but payment to the tribes for loss of acreage was all the legal system could muster in recompense for decades of injustice. The destruction of religion, tribal sovereignty, and whole cultures remained unaddressed, and these issues plague U.S./Indian affairs to this day.

If "our treatment of Indians reflects the rise and fall of our democratic faith," Wild Justice is the remarkable history of that failure and the unbridgeable legal and cultural chasm at its heart.

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History as current as today's headlines.......1999-03-11

On February 22, 1999, just a few days after I finished reading this thorough and thoroughly enjoyable history of the Indian Claims Commission, Judge Royce Lamberth of the U.S. District Court in DC found Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt and Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin in civil contempt for failure to produce government records in a lawsuit involving oversight of Indian trust accounts. According to the New York Times: "Legal historians say that it is the first time two Cabinet officers have been held in contempt simultaneously." As a general reader who is neither a lawyer nor an historian, I was impressed with the clear presentation of very complex legal issues. The authors also provide lessons in social and cultural anthropology and respect for the environment. But most of all, I appreciated the discussion and analysis of the ethical issues related to racism, genocide, and avarice---and the limitations and inadequacies of litigation and legislation when seeking remedies for inhumane treatment of our fellow human beings. This history truly is as contemporary and universal as today's news from Rwanda, Bosnia, the Middle East, Uganda, or Jasper, Texas.

A Kind of Wild Justice: Revenge in Shakespeare's Comedies

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A Kind of Wild Justice: Revenge in Shakespeare's Comedies
Linda Anderson
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Wilbur Smith
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