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Last Train to Paradise
Crown Publishing Group 2003; US$ 14.95Last Train to Paradise is acclaimed novelist Les Standiford?s fast-paced and gripping true account of the extraordinary construction and spectacular demise of the Key West Railroad?one of the greatest engineering feats ever undertaken, destroyed in one fell swoop by the strongest storm ever to hit U.S. shores. In 1904, the brilliant and driven entrepreneur... more...
Meet You in Hell
Crown Publishing Group 2005; US$ 15.00Here is history that reads like fiction: the riveting story of two founding fathers of American industry?Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick?and the bloody steelworkers? strike that transformed their fabled partnership into a furious rivalry. Author Les Standiford begins at the bitter end, when the dying Carnegie proposes a final meeting after two... more...
Washington Burning
Crown Publishing Group 2008; US$ 16.00The Riveting Story of the Federal City and the Men Who Built It In 1814, British troops invaded Washington, consuming President Madison?s hastily abandoned dinner before setting his home and the rest of the city ablaze. The White House still bears scorch and soot marks on its foundation stones. It was only after this British lesson in ?hard war,?... more...
The Man Who Invented Christmas
Crown Publishing Group 2008; US$ 14.99As uplifting as the tale of Scrooge itself, this is the story of how one writer and one book revived the signal holiday of the Western world. Just before Christmas in 1843, a debt-ridden and dispirited Charles Dickens wrote a small book he hoped would keep his creditors at bay. His publisher turned it down, so Dickens used what little money he had... more...
Desperate Sons
HarperCollins 2012; US$ 21.99A groundbreaking narrative?a historical political thriller?that explores the role of the Sons of Liberty in the American Revolution. More than two hundred years ago, a group of British colonists in America decided that the conditions under which they were governed had become intolerable. Angry and frustrated that King George III and the British... more...
Bringing Adam Home
HarperCollins 2011; US$ 12.99?Les Standiford?s account of the decades-long attempt to solve the murder of Adam Walsh is chilling, heartbreaking, hopeful, and as relentlessly suspenseful as anything I?ve ever read. A triumph in every way.? ?Dennis Lehane, author of Mystic River ?The most significant missing child case since the Lindbergh?s?.A taut, compelling and often touching... more...
Bringing Adam Home
HarperCollins 2011; Not Available?Les Standiford?s account of the decades-long attempt to solve the murder of Adam Walsh is chilling, heartbreaking, hopeful, and as relentlessly suspenseful as anything I?ve ever read. A triumph in every way.? ?Dennis Lehane, author of Mystic River ?The most significant missing child case since the Lindbergh?s?.A taut, compelling and often touching... more...
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