Wade Everett
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William Everett Cook (1921 – July 1964), was a western writer who used the pen names Will Cook, James Keene, Wade Everett and Frank Peace. Called "a master western storyteller," Cook published dozens of short stories and 50 novels before his death at age 42. A number of his stories and novels were turned into Hollywood westerns, including the 1961 John Ford film Two Rode Together. After Cook died in 1964, his Everett byline had become valuable enough that Ballantine Books turned it into a house name for novels written by other authors, including Giles A. Lutz.
Books
Killer
"The City of Angels has more than its share of psychopaths, and no one recognizes that more acutely than the brilliant psychologist and police consultant Dr. Alex Delaware. Despite that, Constance Sykes, a sophisticated, successful physician, hardly seems like someone Alex needs to fear. Then, at the behest of the court, he becomes embroiled in a bizarre child custody dispute initiated by Connie against her sister and begins to realize that there is much about the siblings he has failed to comprehend. And when the court battle between the Sykes sisters erupts into cold, calculating murder and a rapidly growing number of victims, Alex knows he's been snared in a toxic web of pathology. Nothing would please Alex more than to be free of the ugly spectacle known as Sykes v. Sykes. But then the little girl at the center of the vicious dispute disappears and Alex knows he must work with longtime friend Detective Milo Sturgis, braving an obstacle course of Hollywood washouts, gangbangers, and self-serving jurists in order to save an innocent life" --
Big man, big mountain
Shaw Dance was a man with a peculiar philosophy - he took from his mountain only the gold and the water and sustenance that he needed. Nor was he about to let anybody, gold seekers or otherwise, take more than just that. The people who lived in Summit, at the foot of Shaw's Mountain, left him strictly alone. But now there was a man - one who didn't care about gold because he had all the money he needed, one who came to challenge the right of any man to sit on a mountain and call it his own - a brash and courageous young man whose only object was to prove that he was bigger than Shaw Dance. This too had happened before. But the difference was that this challenger was one of the Slate boys who owned the valley that Shaw's Mountain brooded over- this challenge meant a war.
Shotgun marshal
A ruthless gang of toughs has been running roughshod over the citizens of Bonanza, and bodies are bodies are piling up: one dead mayor, two dead marshals and way too many dead miners. Adam Collier has been a fighter all his life, first in the army and then against any hardcase who thought he could take Adam on. He's never lost a battle yet. When he's appointed the new mayor, Adam naturally figures he can win back justice for Bonanza as well. He just hasn't figured on fighting his own best friends.
The Warrior
Lochlan MacAllister was born to lead. Ruthlessly groomed to take control of his clan, he has given his life to his people. But when he learns that the brother he thought was dead might still be alive, he embarks on a quest to find the truth.Catarina wants a life of freedom. But now Catarina's royal father wants to use her as a pawn to ensure a treaty between conflicting lands. So much so that he's willing to kidnap his daughter to force the issue. But when she escapes, fate throws her into the path of a man she loathes.Lochlan is stunned to find the shrewish Cat being hauled away by unknown men. Unwilling to see even her suffer, he frees her only to learn that she has her own demons to fight. When their fates intertwine, two people who know nothing of trust must rely on each other, and two enemies who have vowed their eternal hatred must find common ground, or see their very lives shattered.
Vengeance
"Bullying is spreading like wildfire at Chavez High. Students who should know better harass an older teacher. Freshmen are being picked on by cliquish and popular mean girls. Negative tweets and Facebook posts damage school spirit. Then one night the school library is tagged. Can the damage be undone?"--P. of cover. Bullying is spreading like wildfire at Chavez High. Students who should know better harass an older teacher, freshmen are being picked on by cliquish, popular girls, and negative tweets and Facebook posts damage school spirit.
Cavalry Recruit
Arizona Territory in 1867 was a raw new land where even the U.S. Army didn't appear to know too much about the Indians-except that they were Apaches, and deadly. And Loch Angevine was a raw new recruit, fresh off the farm, who didn't know much about the army. His ignorance bothered him and he met this challenge with all the dogged determination of his Scottish heritage. He figured he'd learn by studying and copying the best men in the troop. There was no way for Loch to know even the toughest sergeant knew nothing about keeping a whole skin in Indian country. This was something each man had to find out for himself, the hard way-or be dead.