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On a midsummer's night, a stolen car packed with teenagers crashes at high speed on the southern edge of Bodmin Moor in Cornwall. DI Jan Talantire arrives at the scene to find the victims of the crash. It appears to be a tragic accident until a worried mother turns up at the scene of the accident. Her daughter, Rhiannon, a friend of the joyriders, hasn't been seen since the previous night. The account dovetails with the statement of the householder who claimed to see a girl running near the crashed vehicle the moment he emerged.

Set primarily amid the racial turmoil following the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1968 The Last Ride traces the circumstances leading up to the killing of Haynie Gourley—the popular, self-made millionaire Chevrolet dealer—the extensive manhunt and police investigation, and the improbable grand jury indictment of a popular former college football star.

Sin, president of the Wind Dragons Motorcycle Club, doesn’t mind that things have quieted down since he got married - with Faye at his side, he’ll never be bored. Plus, they’ve got their little girl Clover to keep them on their toes. But when new MC brother Talon needs help rooting out a traitor in his old club, Faye’s the first to volunteer. She’s more determined than ever to get involved and put her law degree to good use, but Sin soon finds himself riding to the rescue. Because he’ll kill anybody who touches a hair on Faye’s head - if she doesn’t get to them first.

Als er das Mädchen hinter Gittern sieht, weiß er, dass er etwas gegen diese Ungerechtigkeit tun muss. Cal Strickland ist ein Cowboy alter Schule. Seiner Familie hat die Ranch an der Grenze zu Mexiko schon gehört, da hat es noch gar keine Grenze gegeben. Nun, da die Ranch kaum noch Geld abwirft, ist er bei der Border Patrol und bewacht das Land, das er liebt. Doch dieses siebenjährige Mädchen ohne Eltern in dem käfigartigen Verschlag sitzen zu sehen, lässt seine anhaltenden Zweifel an der aktuellen Politik zu einem folgenschweren Entschluss reifen.

In partnership with Texas Monthly, Skip Hollandsworth's "The Last Ride of Cowboy Bob" is now available as an audio download, where the length and timeliness of a podcast meets the high-quality production of a full-length audio program. Cowboy Bob was a master bank robber, robbing countless banks...