"The thirteenth Jack Taggart Mystery pits Jack against a group of ruthless kidnappers. To assist MCU, Taggart identifies one of the kidnappers and goes undercover, portraying himself as a criminal who is owed money, in an elaborate sting to lure the rest of the gang into a trap. He is with the kidna
Zane Grey
โ Scribed by Thomas H. Pauly
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 912 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
Zane Grey was a disappointed aspirant to major league baseball and an unhappy dentist when he belatedly decided to take up writing at the age of thirty. He went on to become the most successful American author of the 1920s, a significant figure in the early development of the film industry, and central to the early popularity of the Western. Grey's personal life was as colorful as his best novels. Two backcountry trips into the Grand Canyon inspired his first Westerns, and he returned to Arizona annually for many years. His matching passion for sport fishing carried him to Mexico, Nova Scotia, the Galapagos Islands, New Zealand, Tahiti, and Australia. These trips were a canvas for the striking contradictions in Grey's life. Though he celebrated chastity and romantic love in his novels and his marriage was crucial to his success, these ideals were sorely tested by his long separations, deep depressions, and multiple involvements with women. Likewise his popularization of...
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