A myth-busting novel about America's most infamous and beloved outlaw, Billy the Kid, from a critically acclaimed historical novelist According to legend, Billy the Kid killed twenty-one men, one for every year of his short life; stole from wealthy cattle barons to give to the poor; and wooed just about every senorita in the American Southwest. In Lucky Billy, John Vernon digs deeply into the historical record to find a truth more remarkable than...

Every family has its odd character, the one who never seems right with the world. When a grieving John Vernon was charged with settling his brother's affairs, he came face to face with a life he had never suspected. His brother's house in southern New Hampshire was in a state of squalid, shocking disrepair: piled high with a lifetime of trash, unheated and decrepit, and pitifully unlivable. An assembly worker and an amateur inventor, Paul had managed...

'All this began long before I died,' says the brain in a jar that narrates John Vernon's second novel. The brain once belonged to Charles Cooper, a 55-year-old water engineer in upstate New York, and has been kept alive by a perfusion pump invented by the man who may have been Coop's father-Charles Lindbergh. Then again, maybe not. Coop's suspicion that he is the kidnapped Lindbergh baby who never really died but instead was stolen as a child and...

Six young actresses auditioning for a movie role at a remote mansion are targeted by a mysterious masked murderer.

After avenging his family's brutal murder by Union Forces in the Civil War, Missouri farmer Josey Wales is on the lam, pursued by a pack of killers. He travels westward alone, but a ragtag group of outcasts is drawn to him, and Wales can't leave his motley surrogate family unprotected.

Hoboken Hollow - For decades the Broderic family built their brutal dominion with the sweat and blood of their captives. Lured with promises of work and shelter, drifters, hobos and migrants found themselves captive ay a modern-day slave ranch instead. Inspired by true horrific crime stories from Texas and beyond. -- Secrets of the clown - After the brutal murder of his best friend Jim, Bobbie is haunted by victims of his mutilated body, sinister...

In "The Outlaw Josey Wales," Missouri farmer Josey Wales (Clint Eastwood) joins a Confederate guerrilla unit and winds up on the run from the Union soldiers who murdered his family. In "Pale Rider," a mysterious preacher (Clint Eastwood) protects a humble prospector village from a greedy mining company trying to encroach on their land. In "Unforgiven," retired Old West gunslinger William Munny (Clint Eastwood) reluctantly takes on one last job, with...

Bail out: Three down-on-their-luck bounty hunters promise to deliver the daughter of a millionaire to trial on drug charges. Somewhere tomorrow: A professional guardian angel has been transported to Earth to help a young woman. Cuba crossing: An adventurer gets caught up in a plot to kill Fidel Castro. When the bough breaks: A detective and a child psychologist investigate a child molestation ring that uses a center for troubled children as a front. Crossbar:...