Böcker av Michael Gunner

Dad's Funeral a eulogy of sortsMy Father, Peter Gunner, or as we affectionately all knew him, 'Big Pete, ' or colloquially, 'the old man' was a man who embraced life and never wanted it to end. Dad fought like hell to stay with us for as long as he could. But with his mind still firing on all the cylinders of a V8 engine, Dad's body finally gave out. Dad left us on the 23rd, of March 2013 and not a day goes by where we don't miss him or remember him.Dad was such a force of nature, creating his own destiny and a history all of his own making. Partly truth and partly fiction, Dad wrote his life story through us, with us and off all the walls, trees, dirt tracks and roads that just happened to be standing in his way.Dad's Funeral, A Eulogy of Sorts, is a small attempt by one of his many children to display his admiration for his father, and that would be me. His fifth child born, and quasi middle child, that just happened to be privileged enough to have known the great man and have worked alongside him, our dad, Big Pete.These yarns and stories are just the tip of the iceberg, of life with Dad and with us all, as a family. Every sibling has their own favourite stories of Dad and the Gunner family held close to their hearts. We sure do like them and we hope you do too, as we take a look back at just a few of the tall Gunner tales woven within...

Trucker Westerns, is a compilation of three 1960s trucking, roadtrain novels. Willard WattsDane BoltJohnny and the Yellow Hippo

A compilation of four short western stories The Barnett BrothersOrdareSome Folks ain't Getting a GraveThe Strong Box

In Mesquite, a small river town down by the Rio Grande an afternoon tea party had been arranged at Teddy, and Agnes Little's house for the sole purpose of introducing Leah Butler to Stefan Dulton, the town's only carpenter.Stefan Dulton was considered by all to be a good catch for Leah, even though she was much younger than the man she was being introduced to over cups of tea in Agnes Little's finest china.However, Leah had been reassured by all that Stefan Dulton was an honest man, and he would be very discreet as to a woman in Leah's condition. The pair were married the very next Saturday, and Leah moved into Stefan's house which he had built himself.Seven months later a son was born to Leah, and Stefan Dulton, and that boy was named Royal, after the fine china tea cup that Stefan had drunk from on the very afternoon he had been introduced to Leah Butler.Stefan never asked Leah who the father of her child was, and she never offered to tell him. Royal grew up always believing that the man he, and his mother both loved, and admired, Stefan Dulton, the carpenter was his real father.The family stayed in Mesquite, and Royal attended the small, and sparse school there as well. The floating population of Mesquite, a small cattle town meant that Royal never had many school acquaintances or friends, everyone just kept moving on for greener pastures.Teachers were not all that reliable either, and the position of Mesquite school teacher was usually filled by one of the children's mothers. Then one day there were no children in Mesquite to attend school, and soon there were no girls Royal's own age for him to court either. The future growth of Mesquite was to remain stagnant it seemed.Royal now worked as an apprentice alongside his father Stefan, and the one thing that he wished for most of all now was to be able to build a house for himself. Then he would go out, and find someone just like Stefan had, an honest woman, and settle down just like his parents had.Then one day out of the blue, two rough looking cowboy types rode up to where Stefan, and Royal were working up on top of Laura Wagner's roof. They were up there to fix a leak in her shingled roof, not that it had rained recently or looked likely to happen anytime soon.The cowboys were towing a saddled horse between them, and they tied it off up at the hitching rail, right out the front of Laura Wagner's place, and called on up to Royal."Horse is yours, it's a present from your father," The cowboy said. He was wearing a wide sombrero, and spoke through a mouth full of yellow teeth. "happy birthday," He added, excitedly as he smiled up at the pair seated on Laura Wagner's roof."What's he on about?" Royal asked his father.

Life in a small country town of Chapel is brutally interrupted one evening after seven young school children return home from their favourite swimming hole together.Kate, is the only girl amongst her small group of barefooted friends.She had been told on numerous occasions to stay away from the town's boys but Kate had defied her parent's strict instructions and now Dee would have to pay the price for their innocence, as would some of the town folk...

Eleven for One is a Western who done it?Ivory takes the Bathsheba dray into town for fresh supplies and returns back out to the ranch a few days later with the news that their close friend, the sheriff has been died.The eleven Bathsheba ranch hands ride into town to avenge the death of the sheriff who was once one of their own.The posse chases the adventure and the humble reward that has been set at a measly $1,000 for the unknown killer or killers.Their numbers soon start to dwindle down from the original eleven...But who is doing all the killing?

On the run and on foot, the one Maggie Stokes pursues, continues on his heinous, cross country murdering spree.The pressure mounts as Maggie, the one eyed tracker, and the posse try to stop the killings, and confront the one who has been doing them...Aurelio Salcido had always been seen as a mere cockroach, but in just over a month, he had managed to transform himself into an outright murderous, gunslinger, and was now in a fight for his life..."Killing's the easy part, it's the living afterwards that's the hardest." Aurelio said.