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The United States is struggling to recover from the financial Panic of 1907. Then someone murders a tycoon in Hell's Half Acre in Fort Worth. A flamboyant, yet corrupt city police detective stands accused of the crime. While he languishes in jail, a gang of killers murder his wife in a daring robbery. The killers? Members of a minor league baseball team, who are also the first criminal biker gang. They commit crimes across the country while on tour with their ball team. But it gets worse! Rich, robber barons are involved who try to alter the American and world economies. What happens when the most modern and wild organized criminals run amok? Who can the Texas governor call for help? Who does the accused police detective call from his jail cell? Johann Gunther and his Remedies Detective Agency. Who's also there to help out? Bat Masterson.

Branded traitor, fugitive Lt. General Swoop Swellen races away from the Pacific Northwest, out onto Idaho's high canyon desert lands. He's chased by bounty hunters, caught, then his hunters are attacked by renegade Indians. Swoop escapes and near dead, crawls to an obscure church-orphanage. There he discovers the most insidious schemes and darkest secrets of the most evil men and and women. Can he save himself and save all the orphans within? Even when U.S. Army soldiers, professional bounty hunters, Wells Fargo agents and vindictive Indians are closing in on him? Book 2 in the Renegade General series by Hock Hochheim.

It's 1906, a time just after the American gunfighter, and just before the noir detective. A time when men with a certain experience were called upon to solve "difficult" problems. Men like Johann Gunther, former Army officer, former Rough Rider, former Texas lawman, and now owner, operator, along with his old military friend Filipino Jefe Cocoy, of Remedies Investigations in Fort Worth, Texas. Gunther, having served under Teddy Roosevelt in Cuba, finds himself summoned periodically by the President, and in 1906 he's called for a special assignment. His job? To accompany a U.S. and British Army expedition to faraway Afghanistan and find a missing Colonel. Once he arrives, he discovers the Colonel is involved with Russians and warlords in the "Great Game" of turning Afghanistan into a land grab for all the riches of the Asian continent. Join Gunther as he tracks renegade Indians in Montana, then battles foreign spies in a deadly Atlantic crossing. Ride with him as he fights vicious, bloodthirsty tribesmen and political madmen through the Straits of Gibraltar into India and up the Khyber Pass for a climactic battle at a fortress atop the world. (2nd Edition)

Lt. General Mordecai "Swoop" Swellen was once known for his violent raids and attacks on any and all enemies. Some were criminals, but many were raiding, warring American Indians. When so ordered, he would "swoop" in and decimate any declared enemy. He was also known for his tactical brilliance and sudden viciousness, and his branding iron, red hot anger! But in 1890, Swellen had a change of heart. He was faced with enraging the local Lakota Indians near his fort, which he knew would lead to disaster, or disobeying orders. He walked away from his command just before the massacre at Wounded Knee; disobeying all orders, he disappeared. AWOL. His vindictive superiors branded him a coward, a traitor to the United States and issued a wanted dead or alive $1,000 bounty on his head. The military orchestrated a massive hunt for him. Swellen struggles to stay one step ahead of his many bounty pursuers and the United States Army. In Swellen's Reckoning, we learn his origin story, and how as a fugitive he became involved with a new invention, a mountain-climbing, cog and rail train system, and its company from Sicily, working in Pikes Peak, Colorado. He's hired by the Sicilian owner-inventor Arturo Zapello to thwart sabotage, theft, and murder within his own company, and further foil one of his sinister crew chiefs, Carlo Greco, also a renowned swordsman obsessed with challenging the locals to sword duels to their death. Many reckonings befall Swoop and all those around him in this, his first adventure, as the trap closes in and in..."

Hock's Training Mission Two is an unarmed and multi-weapon collection of his Force Necessary, Level 2 hand, stick, knife, and gun course materials. The material is organized through his Stop 6 Training Program as its skeleton.

"It's 1900. Three young doctors celebrate their graduation from medical school with a dinner on the San Francisco docks--until they're kidnapped and shanghaied to China. The doctors' families are rich, and they entice Vice President Teddy Roosevelt into organizing a secret rescue mission. Teddy dispatches his former Cuban War veteran officer, Major Gunther, from the Philippines to run the top-secret mission, but not without first destroying the rotten shanghai operation on the bay"--Back cover.

GUNTHER RIDES AGAIN.A young Johann Gunther becomes a Lawman in Paris, Texas. Then he joins the army, fights in Cuba, The Philippines and China. But 23 years later he must return to Paris, Texas yet again and fight an international gang war, vendetta, and save his old French police chief while attempting to save the whole city from a fiery destruction. "When you put on that badge, remember this. Every country has its medieval times. Murders, rapes, robberies, crime, war, slavery and horrors. When you put on that badge, you take all this on. These are America's medieval times..." - Chief Gustav Henri

Whether he's hot on the trail of a killer who carves off his victim's faces, or putting together the pieces of a case to bring a local college professor's killer to justice, Hock Hochheim is relentless as he investigates a plethora of criminals, tracks them down and brings them to justice. In Don't Even Think About It, Hock shares the details of his life investigating crime. He tells how he escaped New York City on a motorcycle headed for Australia only to end up in Texas dodging bullets and tracking down criminals, first as a security guard, then in Asia working for Uncle Sam as a military policeman and investigator. Hock also explains how he parlayed military service in law enforcement into civilian police investigations, private eye and bodyguard careers that, together, span nearly three decades. Don't Even Think About It educates, while it entertains, and leaves the reader turning pages well into the night. Along the way Hock reveals the thrills, spills and mysteries as well as the missteps, he encountered serving in law enforcement both in the U.S. and abroad. For anyone considering a career in law enforcement, or for readers interested in real crime stories, Don't Even Think About It is a MUST READ. It both educates and entertains while leaving the reader hungry for more.

In Dead Right There, Hock Hochheim stops a jail break, narrowly avoids being shot in his car, and hunts down a vindictive killer who shot a man through his own dining room window as he ate dinner with his family. And that’s just for starters. In this sequel to Don’t Even Think About It Hock Hochheim investigates a plethora of criminals, tracks them down and testifies at their trials.  Dead Right There reads like fiction but it’s all based on Hock’s life investigating crime and bringing criminals to justice.  In a time before SWAT, Hock himself has climbed in windows with gun drawn, busted down doors and collected evidence that put many a criminal behind bars.  Along the way Hock reveals the thrills, spills and mysteries as well as the missteps, he encountered serving in law enforcement both in the U.S. and abroad.  He shares how he discovered his first dead body, first mass killing, and the story of a psycho who just couldn’t quite identify the men who robbed her and nearly killed her husband.   For anyone considering a career in law enforcement, or for readers interested in real crime stories, Dead Right There is a MUST READ. It both educates and entertains while leaving the reader hungry for more.

Johann Gunther, is a German immigrant, a West Point graduate, ex-U.S. Army officer and former Oklahoma lawman. At the turn of the 20th Century, he runs a problem-solving agency in Ft. Worth, Texas called Remedies, Inc. where if the fee is right, he works as a private detective, a gun fighter, bodyguard and all-around trouble-shooter for hire. He operates in a new world of changing politics, inventive science and exploding technology. In 1906, when U. S. Army Colonel Vito Latissimo and his unit disappear on an discovery expedition in Afghanistan, President Theodore Roosevelt suspects an international, criminal conspiracy. He asks his former Rough Rider Lieutenant, Gunther to act as his free-lance agent and accompany the follow-up British and American mission to locate this officer. Along for the investigation are Latissimo's ill, angry and deserted wife, her beautiful caretaker niece, an aged cavalry company, geographic society's photographers, a reckless English Commander, his British Lancers and a division of Indian Sepoy soldiers. After the assassination of the U.S. contingent's leader, Gunther reluctantly ends up in charge of the American unit. They find Latissimo alive, well and scheming, and Gunther uncovers a plot to assist Russia in the Great Game of disrupting Britain in both India and Afghanistan, plus a traitor's mad scheme to become king of the far Khyber Pass. Gunther outwits foreign spies and revenges a murder on a cruise ship in the Straits of Gibraltar. He battles savage tribes, escapes religious riots in Bombay, crushes Jihadists and American cutthroats in the northwest frontier of Afghanistan, and leads a climatic charge of a stone fort on the top of the world. The classic, serial hero returns in the form of Johann Gunther in this tale of wild, unpredictable, high action and international adventure.