Kirk Hamilton: 35 books

Staying Healthy in the Fast Lane simplifies the causes and effects of modern chronic diseases by outlining the five dietary changes over the last century that have led to excess calorie consumption, and along with reduced physical activity, resulted in the epidemics of obesity, heart disease, diabetes,...

It is now widely recognized that the physical environment has an impact on the physiology, psychology, and sociology of those who experience it. When designing a critical care unit, the demands on the architect or designer working together with the interdisciplinary team of clinicians are highly specialized....

Twenty one thousand dollars ... to get their hands on it, Reno Slade and his gang killed two innocent people and then high-tailed it into the Indian Territory. But they hadn’t reckoned on Sven Johansen’s daughter Anya, who would stop at nothing to bring her parents’ killers to justice. She knew...

Johnny Cato followed a vengeance trail with one single purpose in mind—to kill the outlaw who’d brought his entire world crashing down around his ears. It turned the deadly custom-built handgun/shotgun they called the Manstopper into a reckless killing-machine as he tore a bloody trail right through...

Few men deserved a bullet more than the man called Sundance. But his killer unwittingly set in motion a chain of events that few could have foreseen. A man named Brandon had been about to hire Sundance for a mystery job. When he got wind of it, Texas Governor Lester Dukes was determined to find out...

A king’s ransom in gold had was stolen in a violent bank-raid right in the heart of San Francisco, and the President himself gave orders for Yancey Bannerman to retrieve it. That meant going up against a kill-crazy outlaw named Brad Stewart, and Stewart’s own personal bodyguard, a fellow-psychopath...

This time Yancey Bannerman’s mission was just about as personal as it could get. Following a brawl in a saloon, his Danish friend Erik Larsen, also known as the Viking, was accused of being part of Matt Garrett’s gang of merciless cutthroats. Yancey aimed to prove otherwise. But following an explosive...

They came into Big Springs, Texas, from the north … but they might just as well have come straight out of the past. They were thirty men clad in buckskins, toting flintlocks and muzzle-loaders, and they wanted – and took – everything Big Springs had to offer. That was their biggest mistake. Governor...

Governor Dukes aimed to open up the border country to white settlement as a way to stop Mexico from trying to annex the Lone Star State. But to do so, he first had to give the Kiowa Indians a place to live. The Kiowas wanted the lush Pecos Valley. But the cattlemen in that region didn’t take kindly...

An administrative oversight meant that Buck Harlan spent more time in prison than he should have. Buck had been fifteen when he was sent away. Now he was a man of thirty, with no experience of the outside world. To make it up to him, Governor Dukes sent his two top Enforcers, Yancey Bannerman and...

Something crooked was happening in the border town of Condor. Every Texas Ranger sent to find out what it was ended up disappearing, never to be seen again. But Governor Dukes had an idea what was behind it all—stolen guns. And if those guns fell into the wrong hands, it could spell disaster, especially...

The cold-blooded murder of rancher Abe Summers led to a surprising discovery—a long-lost treasure of Spanish reàls, escudos, doubloons and pieces of eight! Abe’s land-grabbing neighbour, Nathan Cross, wanted that treasure all to himself, and was prepared to have his hired gun, Lang Brodie, kill...

The Governor of Texas had entrusted the safety of Senator Jonas Locke to his No 2 Enforcer, Johnny Cato. The mission proved to be more boring than anything else … until that last night, when Locke decided to go on a bender in the cowboy capital, Cheyenne. That was where Johnny’s problems began...

When Governor Dukes suffered his worst heart attack yet, the buzzards began to gather. It seemed like everyone wanted to seize power and run Texas their way, from political opponents to gunnies with their own personal scores to settle. Keeping the governor safe until he could recover his health was...