John McNally

Sailors Diggings an isolated mining settlement is left reeling when outlaws slaughter seventeen of the stunned population and clean out the assay office stealing $75,000 worth of freshly mined gold. A group of vigilantes led by Don Plunkett give chase determined to dispense some Old West justice. Eddie Carter is mistaken for a gang member and to escape a lynching he must go on the run handcuffed to outlaw leader Dave Mooney, the man responsible for the death of his partner. In the confrontation that follows, the stolen gold disappears with an outcome that nobody could have anticipated.

Sam Heggarty returns home to hunt for the gunmen who robbed and executed his father. As he makes his way back, he witnesses another murder and stumbles across a clue to the people responsible for his fathers death. Sam becomes caught up in the chase to track down an escaped prisoner as he partners up with ageing lawman, County Sheriff Lewis Leeming. He discovers that the one person who may hold the key to the identity of his fathers murderers is someone that everyone else is intent on killing. Heggarty will have to save the life of a man involved in his fathers death.

Americas Report Card offers a brilliant vision of contemporary American life that is frightening, darkly hilarious, and tinged with satire. John McNally tells the story of two unlucky people who forge an improbable yet possibly life-saving connection in a world overshadowed by the Patriot Act and No Child Left Behind -- a world in which hulking government bureaucracies and vast corporations join forces to numb the populace into apathy with various standardization and surveillance programs. But McNally sees hope in the daily experiences of his characters: sometimes, haphazardly, by going about their own very particular lives, people circumvent the official program and begin to actively claim lives of freedom and dignity. Americas Report Card is an arresting and humane portrait of life taking place in the margins, outside the stunted imagination of government and media. As in his critically acclaimed novel The Book of Ralph, McNally dazzles with characters like Jainey OSullivan -- a lonely, confused, purple-and-green-haired sometime truant, Jainey cares so little about high school that on her final standardized test, she writes an essay heaping scorn on the test administrators even as she asks her faceless reader for help. Charlie Wolf leads a fairy-tale graduate student life, with just enough money and clout to keep him in books, vodka, a threadbare apartment, and a beautiful, intellectual girlfriend. But the bohemian dream starts to crumble when Charlie takes a job scoring standardized tests and finds himself surrounded by people who are either plodding blindly along or caught up in wild conspiracy theories. When Charlie and Jainey stumble upon one another, they also stumble upon their own bravery and compassion. They try to protect each other from their habitual bad luck and the shadowy threats lurking at the edges of their lives, and what ensues doesnt follow any prescribed course. The official version of American life today may get the broad strokes and primary colors right, but Americas Report Card reveals how the government and the media overlook the corners and shadows where our individual realities unfold all too often in chaotic, precarious, and bewildering ways. This wholly original, wildly entertaining novel mirrors our part in the dark but frequently redemptive comedy that is life.

"Um livro contagiante! Ação explosiva e maluquices. Será que eles vão conseguir salvar o mundo?" – Mr. Ripleys Enchanted BooksA Scarlatti Beta sentiu o cheiro da tripulação. Mais forte. Mais perto. E

Humour and high adventure combine in the biggest action debut in years even if its characters are very small. Infinity Drake (Finn) is with his scientist uncle when they are summoned to a crisis meeting. A power-mad villain has released a lethal bio-weapon mutant wasps with a deadly sting. Millions of lives are in danger, but Uncle Al has a crazy plan that just might work Soon hes shrinking a crack military team to take down the wasps. But a double agent throws the mission and now Finn is 9mm tall and has the weight of the worlds survival on his tiny shoulders. Killer wasps: Its time to pick on someone your own size!

Get shrunk! Humour and high-stakes combine in the conclusion to the action-packed Infinity Drake series. A BIG adventure with a tiny hero! And you thought 9mm was small? Infinity Drake takes it to a whole nother level After months of captivity Finn and Carla reach their final destination; evil mastermind Kapariss secret lair in the Carpathian mountains. Once there Finn learns the villains true purpose to conquer his paralysis and rise again. To do so Kaparis must shrink a team of medics down to microscopic size to repair his damaged spine, and now hes cracked the Boldklub code it seems nothing can stop him. Apart, that is, from a microscopic hero Join Infinity Drake on his wildest ride yet deep inside the body of his nemesis, where he must fight for his life and bring down the giant once and for all.

"Infinity Drake (il préfère qu’on l’appelle Finn) est en vacances avec Al, son oncle scientifique, lorsqu’ils sont tous deux convoqués par le gouvernement. En 1983, un généticien a créé, par accident

Life is hard for a literary wunderkind after a decade of writers block in this ribald deconstruction . . . of an industry in love with its own absurdities (Kirkus Reviews).You graduate from the Iowa Writers Workshop with a short story published in The New Yorker and subsequently Best American Short Stories. You stay in town and work on your novel. And work on your novel. Until, finally, twelve years have passed . . . and you are working as a media escort for author tours and your unfinished novel sits in a box under your bed. Now your girlfriend has left you. Your car is missing a muffler. Your neighbor is walking around naked because his hands are bandaged and he cant unzip his pants. You are at the whims of a slew of increasingly unhinged writers, and when one of them disappears, an insane New York publicist begins stalking you.This is the life of Jack Hercules Sheahan, a character well understood by author John McNally. McNally is also a graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop as well as a former media escort, and these misadventures are brought to life by his very own.Recalling the wry humor of novels by Nick Hornby and Michael Chabon, After the Workshop tells the satirical story of a writer who confronts the demons from his past while escorting those of his present.

Get shrunk! Humour and high-stakes combine in the action-packed Infinity Drake series. A BIG adventure with a tiny hero! Infinity Drake Finn for short is STILL only 9mm tall. But before his crazy scientist uncle can figure out a way to return him to his normal size, a new threat emerges on the other side of the world. Supreme villain, Kaparis, plans to release an army of self-replicating nano-bots a hardware virus that will give him total control of global communications. Finn and his gang of bullet-sized heroes find themselves on a deadly mission: to stop the bot infection before it conquers mankind Nano-bots: prepare to be cut down to size.

ConLos hijos delScarlatti comienzan las aventuras de «Infinity Drake», una serie que fascinará a lectores aficionados a las historias basadas en hechos científicos. Un poco de ciencia ficción, mucha

Con Los hijos del Scarlatti comienzan las aventuras de «Infinity Drake», una serie que fascinará a lectores aficionados a las historias basadas en hechos científicos. Un poco de ciencia ficción, much