Cotter

by Peter Glassman

Union veteran Jacob Cotter’s goals are to finish Yale Medical School, help establish a hospital in a large untamed Texas town and find his father’s killer. In 1868 Connecticut, Cotter must also confront his siblings who disinherited him when his father, a former Yale surgeon, was murdered by Confederate rebels in 1864. Cotter uses his bounty hunter money for his Yale and New Haven expenses and while absorbing the innovations in anesthesia, surgery and antisepsis he’s also forced into a bloody struggle against his brother and sister. The confrontation threatens Cotter’s romantic relationship as he graduates Yale with top honors and heads to Endura, Texas. Cotter’s former Yale friend and colleague had written to Yale of an existing conflict in Endura between land baron Victor Vlack and its citizenry. In 1870 Cotter arrives at The Doctors Clinic and Hospital which is now under attack by Vlack. Vlack opposes establishment of Endura as a city and completion of its hospital. He further brings in forces to intimidate the town populace, one of whom is Cotter’s father’s killer. Dr. Jacob Cotter now, as in Connecticut, faces life as a doctor needing to use his sixguns. Cotter uses his experience as a bounty hunter to counter Vlack’s gunmen as a masked and clandestine Vigilante. His new sense of spirituality and newfound romance in the form of his widowed head nurse and her two children is threatened not only by Vlack but the return of his Connecticut fiancée. Cotter faces conflicts at all fronts–medical ethics, Godliness, family values and pioneer justice.

498 pages, Kindle Edition

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.