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Jacob "Doc" Gunther is a modern-day Texas Ranger assigned to Company D of the Rangers, whose area of responsibility runs for 640 miles 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, the same distance as between New York City and Cincinnati, Ohio.  NOTE: this distance represents roughly half of the 1,241-mile border between Texas and Mexico.

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. 

If you enjoy quirky characters from authors like John Sandford, Robert B. Parker, and Elmore Leonard, you won't want to miss out on the excitement of reading Bill King's novels.

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 combat tours in both Iraq and Afghanistan, Cortez left active 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 thriller, was released in August 2023.