Robert Matthew Ames

The Good Spy is Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Kai Bird’s compelling portrait of the remarkable life and death of one of the most important operatives in CIA history – a man who, had he lived, might have helped heal the rift between Arabs and the West.On April 18, 1983, a bomb exploded outside th...

The Good Spy is Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Kai Bird’s compelling portrait of the remarkable life and death of one of the most important operatives in CIA history – a man who, had he lived, might have helped heal the rift between Arabs and the West.On April 18, 1983, a bomb exploded outside th...

Robert Ames Bennet was an American western and science fiction writer. Several of his novels were made into films, including "Finders Keepers" and "Out of the Depths".

This Halcyon Classics ebook is THE SHOGUN'S DAUGHTER by Robert Ames Bennett. Set in Japan prior to its "opening" to the West by Commodore Perry in 1854, a young American ventures into the forbidden country and falls in love with a beautiful young woman, the daughter of a powerful Shogun. The story l...

Excerpt from The Blond BeastJune of 1914 - the last month of the Forty Years' Peace.The lavas of the great volcano had seethed up close under the thin crust of appearances, but the rumble of the approaching cataclysm was too low and deep-pitched for most ears to hear. The mass of humanity had risen ...

Review by Darius M. Klein: "A Classic of the Genre" is how Jessica Salmonsen has described this work. Robert Ames Bennet was primarily a writer of Westerns, but also wrote two Lost Race romances, one of which is "Thyra: A Romance of the Polar Pit". The plot concerns a group of explorers who fly in a...

[ The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames Bird, Kai ( Author ) ] { Hardcover } 2014

All the chapter headings of this story are taken from lays which were sung by harpers and skalds before the high-seats of heathen Norse chiefs and in the halls of the Anglo-Saxon kings, while England was yet a heptarchy and the name of Mohammed but little known to men even on the shores of the far-d...