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Author of the Pete Cortez FBI Thrillers & the Doc Gunther Texas Ranger Thrillers
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Author of the Pete Cortez FBI Thrillers & the Doc Gunther Texas Ranger Thrillers
Selected as a Finalist for the 2022 Killer Nashville Claymore Award for Best Mystery!
TROUBLE IN VALDEZ COUNTY is the first novel in the new Doc Gunther mystery-thriller series, which is centered around a modern-day Texas Ranger assigned to the Texas border with Mexico.
A rural Texas border community, mired in corruption, on a lark elects a twenty-seven-year-old woman with absolutely no law enforcement experience as the county sheriff. This throws a wrench into the plans of the local politicos and their cartel backers.
When the body of a young woman is discovered during the annual Javelina Harvest, an event that brings thousands of tourists to the rural border community, Texas Ranger Doc Gunther is sent over from Laredo to assist the Valdez County Sheriff’s Office in the investigation.
That’s when the push-back begins, pitting neighbor against neighbor—and everyone against the new sheriff—as the cartel and the local power brokers fight to maintain their corrupt status quo.
Jacob "Doc" Gunther is a modern-day Texas Ranger assigned to Company D of the Rangers, whose area of responsibility runs along the US-Mexico border, from South Padre Island on the Gulf of Mexico to Val Verde County (including Del Rio and Lake Amistad) in the west.
In real life, the Texas Rangers conduct investigations into major violent crime, public corruption, cold case and officer-involved shootings, as well as overseeing the Texas Department of Public Safety's border security and tactical and crisis negotiation programs.
The second Doc Gunther mystery-thriller, tentatively titled THE YUCATAN CARPETBAGGERS, will be published in December 2023.
Porfirio "Pete" Cortez IV is the protagonist in a series of FBI mystery/thriller novels written by Bill King.
The son of an American petroleum engineer, Pete was born and raised in Venezuela before returning to the U.S. for college, the fourth generation of his family to attend Texas A&M University. Following five years in the Army, during which he served tours in both Iraq and Afghanistan, Cortez left military service to begin a new career as an FBI agent. He is currently assigned to the FBI Houston Field Office.
THE CONSULAR OFFICIAL, the sixth Pete Cortez mystery-thriller, will be published in Summer 2023.
If you enjoy quirky characters from authors like John Sandford, Robert B. Parker, and Elmore Leonard, you’ll love Pete Cortez & Doc Gunther.
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