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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Six-gun Confrontation

Yale Medical Student Jacob Cotter hired a former deaf Union Civil War veteran for help on his vineyard while he attended classes. With full realization that Cotter's brother and sister would try to forcibly close his winery operation, Cotter trained his male help to be as adept a gunfighter as he is. The Deaf Andrew Mashpit faced off with one of his brother's thugs and disarmed him, throwing the man's six-gun into a street pile of horse dung. Danzer, the thug-leader, shows frustration with the ineptitude of having Cotter's handicapped vineyard worker overpower his hired killer. But not all of Danzer's murderers are like this. Danzer is a gunfighter who wields guns, knives, and his favorite weapon, a razor sharp axe.

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COTTER

“What’d he look like?” Danzer was furious about one of his new thugs being disarmed in public by one of Cotter’s hands.

The man described Mashpit and then added, “The bastard didn’t even answer me when I told him he owed me a new gun. I yelled after him and told him I knew where he lived and the next time we met he’d be sorry.”

“It must have been the deaf guy–Andy Mashpit. Yeah, he’s fast with a gun. I seen him at Serenity last year whip both guns out like they were alive.” Danzer scratched his head. “I’ll get you a new gun.”

“You don’t have to. I found the cylinder and picked up the rest of the pistol from the horseshit–no harm done.”

“Stay away from them until it’s our time to make a move.”

“When’s that going to be?” The man unholstered his gun and smelled it. “I can’t get the horseshit smell out of it.”

“Don’t stick the thing in your face. You’ll shoot your brains out.” Danzer was concerned about Cotter’s people. This will not be an easy ousting. “I’ll let you know when we go after them. Come on, I’ll buy you a beer at the Green Moss.”

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Peter Glassman

COTTER

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