Rusk

by E.A. Cook

Rusk is a former American mercenary and veteran of the French Foreign Legion and had completed service on the Arch Duke Ferdinand's security detail. With those days behind him he finds himself driving Taxi in the Storyville section of New Orleans where he meets and commits his life to protecting twenty-four year old Jovetta Robineux. She is a sort of Florence Nightingale for the whores and a cook for the Jazz clubs, until someone hears her sing.
The brothels are closed by the city and Jovetta, with Rusk in tow, joins a singing troupe on a river boat. Tom Anderson, one of the most powerfull men in New Orleans wants her for himself, but she wants nothing to do with the arrogant married man. Jovetta disappears while in port at Memphis and Rusk travels across the country to find her.
There's a killer form Rusk's past that is hired to take him out of the way, and Jovetta has secrets that Rusk discovers the hard way.

36 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 24, 2014

About the author

E.A. Cook was raised in the North Woods of Minnesota and has since lived a life that rivals the characters he writes about. As a young man he spent years traveling around North America covering 43 states and trips over the borders of Mexico and Canada. He traveled by box car, hitchhiking, and as a carny traveling with 8 different shows off and on over twelve seasons. He's worked as a hot dog vendor and face painter in New Orleans and has been an Account Executive for print advertising, owned a private investigations company, and is presently a taxi driver by night and a writer by day. Cook lives in Colorado with his Tribe.