Michael E Cook: 12 books

The cow town is becoming rowdier all the time. Sean’s wife Maggie doesn’t want to raise a child in such a place. Sean’s best friend Michael and his wife Betty have had enough. They go back East in search of peaceful surroundings, but soon find that the West is not the only place filled with...

Robbie Parker had a life that most young boys only dream about. He had the best parents in the world and he learned about love at a young age. His father was a Marine as was his father before him. Robbie was destined to follow in their footsteps.The Vietnam War and its aftermath took its toll...

As the son of Irish immigrants, young Sean had heard from his parents how the Irish were treated by the British, and how his family would never be slaves or own slaves. In Tennessee, his father taught him how to defend himself and shoot, and how to handle and care for horses. These teachings were...

Now that Anderson is dead and the Hawks are gone, things should be quiet for a while. Many scars are still there from Sand Creek and some will seek vengeance no matter the cost in lives and no matter how long it takes.Corruption is running rampant in other towns and good people are being murdered....

Sean’s new boss understands that although he is a Federal Judge, there is hardly any local law throughout the countryside. With the absence of lawmen, jails, and courts, what law there is must do what is necessary to keep the peace. Sean is just the man for the job. When Sean’s friends are in...

Business is booming in Abilene. The cattle herds from Texas are making a lot of people wealthy. The Texas ranchers now have a market for their beef and Abilene has everything in it that a young cowboy could want after being on the trail for so long. All of the shops, saloons, and whorehouses are flourishing,...

Marshal Sean O’Rourke has an enemy for life in George Anderson. Sean soon discovers that the Hawks have been working with the Anderson gang. Even after several shootouts, and many Hawks killed, more Hawks keep coming. Now that Anderson has put a bounty on Marshal O’Rourke’s head, every low life...

The 2014 midterm election was one of the most significant in recent memory, with a decisive turning of the tables in favor of Republicans. With a now-Republican-controlled Senate and House at odds with a Democratic president with only two years left in office, the fault lines within and between both...

What good is a rattlesnake? What purpose do animals serve? All species play a vital role in their biological communities, and the removal of just one can have a noticeable and catastrophic ripple effect. Yet social and political pressures frequently pit species conservation against economic...

Larry Sabato, one of the leading experts in American politics, has brought together respected journalists and academics from across the political spectrum to examine every facet of the 2012 election, and what its development and outcome will mean for the nation moving forward. In frank, accessible...

This edited volume fills a void in the literature concerning the purpose, practice, and pedagogy associated with performing rhetorical criticism. Literature regarding these issues—predominantly purpose—exists primarily as scattered journal articles and as sections within chapters of textbooks...

Despite the growing importance of heroines across literary culture—and sales figures that demonstrate both young adult and adult females are reading about heroines in droves, particularly in graphic novels, comic books, and YA literature—few scholarly collections have examined the complex relationships...