George Mercer: 6 books

Gold Medal - Best Regional Ficton (Canada West) - 2019 Independent Publisher Book Awards When a cougar shows up in British Columbia’s Gulf Islands National Park Reserve, Park Warden John Haffcut sees it as an opportunity to deal with the overabundance of deer that have transformed the islands...

Gold Medal - Best Regional Fiction (Canada West) - 2018 Independent Publisher Book Awards When National Park Warden Ben Matthews transfers from Cape Breton Highlands to Wood Buffalo, he finds himself in the middle of a controversial proposal to slaughter the park’s entire bison population....

After helping scuttle plans to slaughter Wood Buffalo National Park’s entire bison population, Ben Matthews and Kate Jones end up in Jasper. Distracted by rumours of a new mine on the park’s boundary, Ben and Kate help uncover a plot to build a backcountry lodge in Jasper’s wilderness, leaving...

Silver Medal - Fiction Series - 2019 Independent Publisher Book Awards National Park Warden Ben Matthews expected challenges with his new posting at Cape Breton Highlands. But he got more than he bargained for. Facing a notorious poacher with a reputation for letting nothing get in his way,...

The minutes, hours, and days after President John F. Kennedy was shot on November 22, 1963, provided no ready answers about what was going on, what would happen next, or what any of it meant. For millions of Americans transfixed by the incomparable breaking news, television—for the first time—emerged...

For four reporters (Huffaker, Mercer, Phenix, and Wise) at CBS affiliate KRLD-TV in Dallas on November 22, 1963, there was not a dress rehearsal for what they had to do in the aftermath of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. They provided the first continuous feed of an unfolding tragedy...