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George Marquis Lorrilard is a space exploiter with one dependable motive: profit. In a future where complacency has weakened the drive to explore and rival powers threaten the balance of worlds, Lorrilard’s appetite for wealth may be exactly the force no one expected to need. Armed with nerve, ambition and a technology that can turn air itself into an invisible barrier, he enters a struggle where personal gain and planetary power become impossible to separate. He wants a fortune. The world needs an advantage.

Meet Eddie Moran, a slightly disreputable American cooling his heels in French Morocco. He's as smooth as they come, one step ahead of the game...and of the police. Who's after him? Just about everybody. What's he done? A bit of everything - smuggler, revolutionary, whatever crooked little scheme will pay for his next meal or next drink. But Eddie's latest caper is one he may not be able to escape....even if he wants to.

Jack is a drifter, a tramp, with nothing—until a gunshot, a desperate operation and an impossible recovery leave him with a power no one understands. At first, Jack’s strange ability seems miraculous. With a glance, the sick recover. The injured are restored. Even age itself can be reversed. But Jack soon discovers that the same force that heals can kill when fear takes hold—and once other people realize what he can do, his life is no longer his own. A miracle becomes a weapon. A powerless man becomes someone the world fears.

Farmer Eben Smith is tired of being told to destroy good crops while people go hungry. He loads his wagon, heads for the city and reaches a crossroads unlike any on Earth—four roads, four kinds of travelers and four realities with very different ideas about trade. Eben has produce to sell and a Yankee instinct for a bargain. But every deal he makes sends another world spinning in an unexpected direction, and the farther he travels from the road he knows, the stranger the consequences become. Four roads. Impossible customers. A wagon full of ordinary goods.

Brash and bold and daring, Lieutenant Lee Briscoe will never back away from a good cause or a good fight. Briscoe’s gone undercover to infiltrate a slave-labor camp on an island in Southeast Asia, knowing full well that once he goes in, he may never get out. Posing as a man on the run for murder, he may soon wish he had run in the opposite direction. His adversary on the island is Schwenk - a man who is not only a connoisseur of cruelty, but an expert at delivering it.

Drilling for oil is a dirty business, and for Bill Murphy, it’s about to turn positively filthy. But Murphy’s as big and tough as his home state of Texas and he’s more than a match for everything the oil-rich land of Venezuela can throw at him. Everything, that is, except for one woman. Her name is Marcia Stewart. She’s fiery, she’s brave, and she’s beautiful...and she’d like nothing better than to see Bill Murphy dead. Her oilman father’s been killed, and Marcia tags Murphy as the murderer.

Lieutenant Bill Mahone of Naval Intelligence is on a mission to find The Green God ... and it’s life or death. Along the way, he’s tortured with knives, threatened with a slow, painful death and buried alive. And then things get really nasty. The entire Chinese city of Tientsin is under siege from within - the streets filled with rioting, arson, mass looting, and murder. And all because the city's sacred idol, the Green God, has gone missing.

Eighteen-year-old Lee Thompson arrives in Wolf River determined to help the father he hasn’t seen since childhood. But when he discovers Sheriff Diehard Thompson losing his grip on a town overrun by outlaws, Lee realizes that protecting his father means risking everything himself.

Experience these classic Western adventures as never before in an unabridged dramatized production. A versatile ensemble cast brings every character to life, enhanced by original music and thousands of cinematic sound effects that place you in the heart of every frontier adventure. For the best experience, we recommend listening with headphones. Then close your eyes and experience the American frontier as if you were there. One act of frontier justice turned Lance Gordon into an outlaw.

Lynn Taylor and his kid brother Frank may not be angels, but they’re not devils, either. They’re just a couple of men—two-fisted Texans who have landed on the wrong side of a corrupt lawman. Young Frank’s been framed for robbery, rustling, and murder, and if Lynn doesn’t think fast, his brother’s going to end up the guest of dishonor at a hanging party. Lynn cooks up a daring plan to clear his brother’s name and rope in the real outlaw.

AN ORDINARY COWBOY. AN EXTRAORDINARY CHANCE TO BECOME THE MAN HE ALWAYS WISHED HE COULD BE. Old Laramie was once as tough as any cowboy on the frontier. But three bullet wounds, advancing age and years of ridicule have reduced him to cooking coffee and stew for the hands of the Lazy G Ranch while enduring the constant abuse of a ruthless foreman. His days of courage seem long behind him. Everything changes when chance throws him into the path of danger.

Lee Weston is as good-looking as he is quick tempered, and he’s got a lot to be angry about. His father murdered, his family ranch torched, he goes gunning for Harvey Dodge—the man who he's convinced is the killer—and it’s Lee who ends up on the wrong side of the law. Shot in a gunfight, on the run and running out of time, he holes up in a mountain hideout and waits for death to come find him. But he wakes up in the arms of a beautiful woman who has beat death to his door and nursed him back to life.

Saddle tramp Petey McGuire has spent his life being beaten down, beaten up and pushed aside. Hungry, desperate and with nowhere left to turn, he discovers the only job available is with the legendary Arizona Rangers. There’s just one problem—Petey isn’t fearless, fast with a gun, or the toughest cowboy in the territory. So he pretends to be. Talking tough earns him a badge. Living up to it is another matter.

Sheriff Kyle of Deadeye, Nevada, is headed east to the nation’s capital. Kyle’s about to discover that the law can be even wilder in the big city than in the Wild West. It’s a fact that hits home when he’s the one accused...of murder. Kyle’s come to the city to give a report to his senator on the misdeeds of Nevada’s filthy rich copper kings. But before he has a chance, he’s knocked unconscious, later coming to alongside his senator - now dead, with Kyle’s knife embedded in the corpse.

Spring has come to White Bear Landing - and so has the law, in the firm hands of Royal Mounted policeman and pilot Bob Dixon. Dixon's gruff, tough and good-looking, and in this outpost halfway between the arctic mines and civilization, he's known for taking the law to extremes. More than once Dixon has meted out his own brand of rough justice with hard fists and hot lead, but now the tables have turned. The past has come back to haunt him, he's been set up as a murder suspect, and a rogue's gallery of enemies are lining up to settle old scores.

Tim Beckdolt, rangy and self-reliant, is as American as the frontier itself. But after spending eight treacherous months digging $175,000 in gold out of Desperation Peak—all he has left is desperation. Two sadistic strangers have taken his gold, and now they want to take his life. He's on the run—the target of a Devil’s Manhunt.

He’s a lady’s man, a man’s man—and a wanted man, on the run in 1930s Europe.... Meet Blacky Lee, ruggedly handsome with a quick wit and a roguish charm—with larceny in his heart and a price on his head. A price put there by the German Gestapo. But Blacky’s always got an angle, and this time it’s as audacious as they come. He’ll hide in plain sight, impersonating the crowned head of a Balkan kingdom. He’ll become The Iron Duke.

Bill Norton might be new to Ketchikan but he’s no tenderfoot. In fact, he’s one of the sharpest FBI agents this side of the Yukon - savvy, tough and resourceful. Norton’s come to this rough-and-tumble town to look into a case of a missing person - his own boss - who vanished investigating a heroin smuggling operation. What Norton finds is a string of corpses, a gallery of rogues, and a fleet of fishing boats that specialize in red herrings. He also finds himself warming up to the heart-stopping halibut heiress Elaine Halloway.

Tex Larimee is a grizzled Arizona sheriff who’s leaving the deserts of Cactus County behind, blazing a trail east to mix it up with The Slickers in the canyons of Manhattan. Tex’s welcome to New York is a rude one. Robbed of his cash, gun and badge, he’s locked in a room in back of a run-down bar. Breaking out of the bar, he goes looking for his best friend...only to find him dead, his throat cut. And the cops accuse Tex of committing the murder.

Experience these classic Western adventures as never before in an unabridged dramatized production. A versatile ensemble cast brings every character to life, enhanced by original music and thousands of cinematic sound effects that place you in the heart of every frontier adventure. For the best experience, we recommend listening with headphones. Then close your eyes and experience the American frontier as if you were there.