The Shadow Man [Hardcover]

F. M. Parker (Author)

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From Library Journal

It is 1846 in New Mexico. Jacob Tamarron, retired trapper, finds home and wife on a Mexican ranch in the Pecos River Valley. All is well until the greedy eyes of Texas Senator Caverhill fall on Mexican holdings. His hirelings, a gang of vicious killers, seize ranches, including Jacob's, slaughtering all dwellers. Jacob teams up with a Comanche who has lost three families to avenge the massacres. Although sometimes painful reading, the story is absorbing, for it is swiftly paced and filled with action. Yet the author takes time to describe graphically the land he obviously loves. Sister Avila, Acad. of the Holy Angels, Minneapolis
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: New American Library (November 30, 1988)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0453006191
• ISBN-13: 978-0453006194
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.9 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,811,903 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

My name is Fearl Meek Parker. Don't laugh about the Meek. Sometime in the future, I'll tell how such a moniker was hung on me. I write under the name of F. M. Parker

I have written 20 books and am in the process of publishing them on Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Apple and some publishers in England.

My early years were lived in Ohio. At 16 I dropped out of school and went to work in a factory making door and windows. Becoming tried of eating sawdust, I started hitchhiking west. Ran out of money in Colorado and worked as a bellhop in Estes Park. After a few days and with a few coins jingling in my pocket, I caught a ride north to Montana where I herded sheep near Miles City. Tiring of that, I jumped onto my thumb and rode it west to Seattle, Washington. There I tasted the salt water and saw all the warships sailing off to war in the Pacific. This was 1945 during World War 11. Again I jumped upon my thumb, pointed it to the east, and rode it to Ohio. Where I talked my mother into signing me into the navy. Well, I wasn't yet 17 the minimum age, and so the navy put me up in a hotel for a day and them swore me in. I spent 4 years that first time. I was called back to active duty for a year and a half during the Korean War in the early 1950's.

Earned a degree in geology, working the night shift for Chrysler Airtemp and going to school during the day. Hired on with a mining company prospecting for uranium in Utah. Next, I worked for an oil company drilling oil wells in KANSAS. THEN my luck really struck and I took employment with the Bureau of Land Management, a bureau within the Department of the Interior. This was the perfect job for a fellow with an itchy foot. While working up through the ranks, I was in California, New Mexico, Utah, Washington D.C. and Oregon. I wrote my first book, Skinner, while in Oregon. Doubleday published it. After the Bureau, I became an environmental consultant in Phoenix, Arizona. I now live in Virginia.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Great Author, November 19, 2008

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Michael C. Bowling "mibowl" (greenup, KY) - See all my reviews
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Great author, I feel that he is the best western writer since Louis Lamour in the western series. He writes with stronger characters than Louis Lamour, but each of them have their weakness also. I personally feel the book the "Nighthawk" is one of his best books. Read it to see if you like his style as this most closely resembles Louis Lamour.