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1) The spy
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 17
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It is 1908, and the international tensions are mounting as the world plunges toward war. When a brilliant American battleship gun designer dies in an apparent suicide, the man's grief-stricken daughter turns to the Van Dorn Detective Agency to clear her father's name. Van Dorn puts his chief investigator on the case, and Isaac Bell soon realizes that the clues point to murder. When more suspicious deaths follow, it becomes clear that someone is orchestrating...
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"Ten years have passed since Jack Picaro lost his Ghost Rifle--the firearm he invented, the one that never missed its target. The loss of the rifle calmed the hellraiser in his soul. Instead of returning to the gambling halls and whiskey bars of St. Louis, Jack has spent the last decade as a fur trapper in Wyoming's Wild River Range, married to Sky, the daughter of an Arikara war chief, and father of two. Then, after helping rescue U.S. soldiers trapped...
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"Descended from a long line of ramblers and rogues, Jack Picaro came to America to seek his fortune. But after killing his best friend in a drunken duel, the apprentice gunsmith flees westward, leaving everything he knows behind. As Jack ventures up the Missouri River, he finds an unspoiled land where a man can live free - and also be attacked by an Arikara war party. His rifle stolen in the bloody skirmish, Jack sets out alone to reclaim it. His...
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To give a man the upper hand in avenging a death, a gunsmith customizes a revolver to fire at half cock, saving the time it takes to pull back the hammer before firing. But the weapon is stolen and the novel traces the fortunes of its owners as the revolver passes from hand to hand. By the author of The White Bird.
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