COTTER

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

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Synopsis: Jacob Cotter dropped out of Yale Medical School in 1863 to enlist in the Union Army with his father Dr. Edward Cotter, then Chief of Medical Staff at Yale. Upon Edward’s murder by Confederate raiders at the battle of Nashville, Jacob Cotter is disinherited by his brother and sister. After the war Cotter becomes a bounty hunter to obtain money to return to Connecticut and complete medical school at Yale. He finds that his siblings have monopolized the valley wine industry through force, murder and intimidation. At Yale, Cotter works with the Colt Firearms heiress to set up his own vineyard. Violence ensues as Cotter and his hands confront efforts to burn him out. After Yale he sets out for Endura Texas. However, he finds 1872 Endura Texas a battleground like the New Haven he left. Victor Vlack, cattle baron and Endura’s largest landowner runs for state congress to thwart Endura becoming a city. Opposition to Vlack’s murders, pillaging and barbed wire oppression comes from Cotter and his physician colleagues. Cotter becomes his vigilante alter ego to confront Vlack’s moves. Cotter also finds his father’s killers working for Vlack. Vlack targets his Clinic and his staff for destruction. This includes his ether anesthetist, Mortimer Pignast, who runs for election against Vlack. Cotter falls in love with the Clinic’s widowed head nurse and her children. He’s torn between being a humanitarian physician, family man and his quest to avenge his father’s murder. Peter Glassman

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Author Biography

As a retired physician I’m devoting my time to writing novels, memoir-based fiction and short stories. My life as an author of fiction began in 2003 after a few years at Toastmasters International delivering captivating stories and speeches. I believe literature should be educational, fun, serious, full of feelings and always with a touch of fantasy and a thread of truth. Like all my novels true lifetime situations are interwoven with suspenseful and intriguing story lines. My 13 novels and short story book bear that philosophy out. Reviews of my books in Amazon.com have been 5-star. Comments for WHO WILL WEEP FOR ME such as “high school coming of age makes the story feel authentic and make the reader want more” is typical of reader satisfaction. I live with my wife in San Antonio near my daughter and her family with four of my grandchildren. My goal as an author is to publish several novels a year with my novel portraying terrorism in the US, - OCEAN CITY HQ - recently published..

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Liveryman or Somehthing Else

Jacob Cotter is finishing Yale Medical School. His brother and sister have cheated him of his inheritance and turned the family fortune into a wine-producing monopoly. It's a monopoly by force and intimidation using hired gunmen. One of his family's employees is a liveryman who greets Cotter as Cotter reunites with his siblings for the first time since the Civil War ended. The liveryman may be more than his facade presents. Cotter warns the man not to touch his saddle bag continuing his gun. The liveryman also senses Cotter is more than just a medical student. His experienced past and present detects Cotter as someone to be wary of. Cotter senses the same about the liveryman.

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COTTER

The Locke estate was ten-miles from the center of New Haven but only five-miles from Cotter’s house. The weather was fair and dry as Cotter rode to the entrance on his palomino. A footman met him at the carriage stone to the left of the main door of the house. The man was as tall as Cotter and very thick set. He looked very muscular. His face was clean shaven except for a black moustache which extended around his lips and straight down his chin for a full inch. Cotter dismounted and opened his gray duster. He untied his gun, removed the holster and placed the rolled-up rig into one of his saddlebags.

“I expect you not to touch this saddle bag.”

The liveryman said nothing but nodded an assent. Cotter watched the man lead his horse to a barn while he knocked on the solid oak door. He could tell the man wore a pistol underneath his knee-length tunic. In the West, he learned to recognize anyone who did and who did not wear a gun. The door opened slowly and a bald middle-aged servant wearing shiny black shoes, black tidy pants, and a starched white shirt under a vest looked Cotter over.

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Peter Glassman

COTTER

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COTTER

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