QUARANTINE

by GERALD MCCATHERN

Overview

When two boys find a dead man, murdered gangland style, lying in weeds on their father’s farm, a chain of events take place that pulls small town Deputy Sheriff Buster Thornton into an international conspiracy which threatens to drag the United States into another Mid-East confrontation. When thousands of cattle, being fattened for market in huge feedlots in the Texas Panhandle, start to die from a mysterious virus, Buster’s murder investigation becomes intertwined with the FBI’s investigation of a terrorist strike against the nation’s food supply. Buster brings the tactics of the old west lawman into play as he follows clues in Las Vegas, Chicago, and Washinton, D.C.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781935841272
Publisher:	OUTLAW BOOKS/MICHAEL CAMPBELL
Publication date:	11/02/2010
Series:	BUSTER THORNTON , #1
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	232
File size:	312 KB

About the Author

Gerald McCathern, a native of the Texas Panhandle, has been writing most of his adult life, having published his own nationally circulated newsletter, The Agriculture Watchdog. He has written a syndicated column for several newspapers and has authored several books, including From the White House to the Hoosegow, Gentle Rebels, To Kill the Goose, Line of Succession, and Horns.
Gerald has had an exciting life, having served in the Aviation Engineers during WWII, working as a roustabout, rough-neck and graduate geologist in the oil fields of West Texas, and farming, ranching and cattle feeding in the Texas Panhandle.
As the National Wagonmaster during the agriculture protest movement of 1977-1979, he led over 5,000 tractors and 50,000 farmers across the nation to Washington, D.C. in their effort to carry their economic problems to congress and the American people. During the three year period of the protest, he became very respected in the political realm, having met and worked with most of the leading political figures of that time, including Presidents Carter and Reagan; Senators Dole and Harkins; and Speakers of the House, Wright and O’Neil.
As a spokesman for the farmers, he appeared on Good Morning America and The Donahue Show, as well as on many radio talk shows, and met with the editorial board of The Washington Post. In 1981, President Reagan appointed him as Special Assistant to Secretary John Block in Washington, D.C., where he worked on many high level programs including a top secret effort to prevent Castro from taking over Jamaica.
Gerald met and married his wife, Bonnie Traweek, while attending Texas Tech in 1947. The have 3 children, 8 grandchildren and 3 great-grandchildren. They reside in at their home in Hereford, Texas.