Cotter

by Peter Glassman

Jacob Cotter survives the Civil War to finish Yale Medical School and confront two more battlefronts-one in Connecticut as a medical student and one in Texas as a surgeon. In 1868 Cotter is financially solvent for Yale from banking two-year's of bounty hunter money. Post-Civil War medicine is exciting. Cotter experiences advances in anesthesia and antisepsis enabling surgery and medicine truly saving lives. He finds pseudoscience-phrenology-laugh able. However, he must confront his siblings who disowned him after his father was killed in the war alongside him in 1864. His brother and sister want him dead. Surviving domestic violence and with Yale behind him, Cotter finds private practice in Endura Texas with a colleague being also under fire trying to establish the first hospital in the area. Cotter leaves one frying pan for another facing a ruthless land baron extorting and killing opposing citizenry. He also finds his father's murderer part of the lethal lot. Dr. Cotter now needs to combine his stethoscope and his sixguns to define human benevolence until he develops a sense of spirituality and a sense of family.

500 pages, Paperback

First published November 7, 2012

About the author

As a baby boomer and retired physician I'm devoting my time to writing medical, crime and historical thrillers. My life as an author began in 2003 after several individuals at Toastmaster's International speeches suggested "you should write a book". My first novel THE EYEMAN shows the consequences of untreated PTSD in a Vietnam War returnee. In the author's note of each of my 9 published novels I've revealed the reason behind each book creation. Even when I read other authors I look for the story behind the story.
I live in retirement in San Antonio Texas spending several hours a day writing and editing my novels. I currently have over 34 story lines waiting to blossom into pertinent, poignant prose interlaced with humor and reality.

Peter Glassman MD, PhD

Reviews

[Cathy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Sorry, I could not finish this.

I started out liking this book, but the farther I read, the less I liked it. The story was good; the bounty hunter/doctor combination was a unique plot, but I couldn't get past the man killing people with the hatchet. Also Cotter's sister was super unsavory and his girlfriend was too conniving and he was too stupid to see it. No more!!

[Bill Pupkis · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good writing and story line.

These were enjoyable stories. I look forward to reading more stories from Peter Glassman.

Although it would have been nicer to see more written about Dr. Cotter and his new family.

[Brenda · Rating 4 out of 5]

Reading on my Kindle. This was a western like no other western I have read before. I've never read anything by this author before but I will be looking into him.