9 Books by F.M. Parker
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Overview: As a boy F. M. Parker hitchhiked around the country working as a sheepherder in Montana, a bellhop in Colorado, and a logger in Ohio. He received a B. S. in Geology from the University of Dayton, and did graduate work in Geology at Ohio State University. He worked in the factories of GM and Chrysler at night to put himself through college. After that he went into the U. S. Navy for 5 years with service in the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans aboard the Timbalier, AVP 54, a seaplane tender.
Doubleday published his first book in 1981. The title was Skinner and there was an interesting story behind that title. The chairman of the grazing advisory board was named Skinner and the Skinner of Parker’s novel was a drunkard and a pistoleer, while the real Skinner was a rancher and a straight arrow. Parker wasn’t sure how the real Skinner would take the use of his name, but he laughed and thought it was a good story.
Genre: Western | Historical Fiction
Winter Woman
Winter Woman is the sweeping epic tale of gold seekers, the Mormon Migration, savage Indian battles set in the wilderness of the Greet Plains and the Rocky Mountains. Here men and women become warriors, enemies, and lovers — and only the brave and strong survive.
Wife Stealer
A man who has no woman sleeps with the wind. Wounded in a battle of the Civil War, Ben Hawkins becomes the ugliest horse thief in Texas. Only one woman remembers what he was like before the wound, and still loves him. However she is the sixth wife of a Mormon man. When she is kidnapped and taken into Mexico, one man will dare try to rescue her.
The Seekers
Levi Coffin kills scores of enemies in battle. Sickened of death, he flees from the killing fields. Errin Scanlan, an English highwayman, escapes from prison in Australia and comes to San Francisco. The two join Celeste Beremendes, owner of vast land holdings, to fight Brol Mattoon, the ruthless ruler of the waterfront who plots to destroy them.
The Highwayman
The story setting is England and Australia in the mid-1860’s. Patrick Scanlan, an orphan of seven, is sold into slavery at a weaving mill in London. Half starved, and often whipped for refusing to work, he manages to escape from the weaving mill and onto the dangerous London streets with their whores, thugs and thieves. He survives his childhood years by stealing.
He chances upon Thief Takers, bounty hunters, lying in wait to kill Claude Duvall, a famous highwayman. Warned by Patrick, Duvall fights his way out of the trap. Patrick joins Duvall in his robberies and becomes one of the elite class of thieves, a Two Pops And A Galloper, a mounted highwayman with two pistols, who robs the rich travelers on the highways.
Thief Takers try to arrest Duvall and Patrick. Patrick shoots the Thief Takers. He is captured and given a sentence of life at hard labor in the penal colony on Van Diemen’s Land, an island off the south coast of Australia.
Patrick is often flogged with the cat-o-nine-tails for fighting. He organizes a group of convicts into a "Sydney Trip". Sydney offers a slim opportunity for escape. The cost to the convicts to get to Sydney is for one of them to die and one to hang for the murder.
In Sydney, Patrick escapes from his guards and steals a small sailing boat and takes to the open sea. For weeks he endures frigid Antarctic storms and starvation. Then more dead than alive he comes upon the ghost ship, The Huntress and climbs aboard.
Based on the reality of the slavery of orphans in England and the savagery of the prison on Van Diemens Land, this gripping novel explodes with passion and adventure and action.
The Highbinders
1869. A case of mistaken identity, a battle for gold on the Snake River, murder of 31 Chinamen, and the sale of a beautiful Chinese girl bring together young Tom Galaway, the Highbinder warrior, Pak Ho, and lovely Lian. Seeking vengeance for the deaths of their friends, they search for the murderers on San Francisco’s back alleys and waterfront.
The Far Battleground
Mexican War, 1847. American army lands at Vera Cruz and marches inland and captures Mexico City. Cavillin, Texas Ranger and Chilton, Dragoon, lead their men in the battle. Chilton wanting money for his dead and wounded men, leads a band of Dragoons robbing Mexican towns of their gold and silver. Cavillin is ordered to catch the thieving Dragoons.
The Assassins
It is 1847 and the place is turbulent New Orleans as American forces prepare for the invasion of Mexico. Timothy Wollfolk traveling to New Orleans to claim a huge inheritance, is shot and thought dead. Lew Fannin, ex-Texas Ranger slays the man’s murderers and assumes his identity. Two violent strands of dramatic conflict are set into motion.
Predators and Prey
1859 England, Caroline joins a Mormon missionary and other converts. In the Rockies, Sam is robbed by the DeBreen. Texas, Nathan joins four men to find wives. On the Great Plains, the women, pulling their belongings in carts, are prey for DeBreen, the Texans, Sam hunting DeBreen, a band of Mormons from Utah with orders to bring every woman there.
Nighthawk
Russ, only a boy, kills two lawmen he thought were outlaws. He flees. Crazy Caloon escapes from Yuma prison. He tries to kill Russ. They join a gang of bandits. Beautiful Samantha and her father have a ranch on the edge of bandit land. Russ becomes her secret protector. In a battle to save Samantha, Caloon and Russ fight the band of outlaws.
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