CHARACTER PROFILES
Get To Know My Characters: Emil Riker
Learn more about Emil Riker from my Jeremiah Halstead series.
CATEGORY#1: BASIC STATS
Name: Emil Riker
Sex: Male
Gender: Male
Age: 30
Race: White
Ethnicity: Anglo
Culture: American
Height: 5’10”
Body type: Lean
Appearance: Close cropped brown hair and beard
Where is he from?: El Paso, Texas
CATEGORY #2: RELATIONSHIPS
Family: One brother and a dead father he wishes to avenge
Friends: His brother and various sycophants in El Paso
Colleagues: He’s a lone wolf
CATEGORY #3: THE SEXY STUFF
Sexual Orientation: Straight
What is he attracted to?: Opportunity, money, vengeance
Romantic Experience: Nothing permanent
CATEGORY #4: SKILLS
Skills: Violence, uncanny cunning and ruthlessness, skilled with firearms
Occupation/Schooling: He can read and write fairly well
Hobbies: Scheming and influencing bad men to be even worse
CATEGORY #5:
Introvert or Extrovert?: Introvert until he’s required to be otherwise.
Strengths: Excellence with firearms and fighting
Weaknesses: Blind rage and overconfidence in his abilities
Aspirations: To rid the world of Jeremiah Halstead once and for all
Beliefs/Affiliations: Believes in himself and his abilities, quick to discount others
Fears: Allowing Jeremiah Halstead to live another day.
Get To Know My Characters: Joshua Sandborne
Learn more about Joshua Sandborne from my Jeremiah Halstead series.
CATEGORY#1: BASIC STATS
Name: Joshua Sandborne
Gender: Male.
Age: 24.
Race: White.
Ethnicity: Anglo.
Culture: American.
Height: 5’9.
Body type: Slim.
Appearance: Clean-shaven, wide-eyed and youthful.
Where is he from?: Dover Station, Montana.
CATEGORY #2: RELATIONSHIPS
Family: Orphan.
Friends: Jeremiah Halstead, Aaron Mackey and Billy Sunday.
Colleagues: Other U.S. Deputy Marshals in Montana.
CATEGORY #3: THE SEXY STUFF
Sexual Orientation: Straight.
What is he attracted to?: Pretty and alluring women.
Romantic Experience: Limited but working on it.
CATEGORY #4: SKILLS
Skills: Proficient with most rifles and pistols, competent fighter.
Occupation/Schooling: Little other than what he learned from the other hired hands at the JT Ranch.
Hobbies: Learning new words, listening to people to determine if they’re being truthful.
CATEGORY #5:
Introvert or Extrovert?: Introvert.
Strengths: Bravery, loyalty, calmness during chaos.
Weaknesses: Ignorance, a lack of education, blind loyalty.
Aspirations: To be the kind of man Halstead holds in high regard.
Beliefs/Affiliations: Law and order, Deputy U.S. Marshal of Montana.
Fears: Disappointing his friends and being seen as a failure.
Get To Know My Characters: Cal Hubbard
Learn more about Cal Hubbard from my Jeremiah Halstead series.
CATEGORY#1: BASIC STATS
Name: Cal Hubbard
Sex: Male
Gender: Male
Age: 50
Race: Anglo
Ethnicity: American
Culture: Frontier banker/businessman
Height: 5’8”
Body type: Fleshy
Appearance: Impressive iron-gray muttonchops
Where is he from?: Missouri
CATEGORY #2: RELATIONSHIPS
Family: The fortune he has built for himself is his only relation
Friends: Mark Mannes, a disreputable cowardly lawyer and Ed Zimmerman, outlaw
Colleagues: Rob Brunet, the French-Canadian outlaw who has spread terror on both sides of the border.
CATEGORY #3: THE SEXY STUFF
Sexual Orientation: Straight
What is he attracted to?: Money and power
Romantic Experience: Soiled doves and women of easy virtue
CATEGORY #4: SKILLS
Skills: Banking, legal thievery of various kinds
Occupation/Schooling: Business and some legal experience
Hobbies: Making money, corrupting towns and bringing them under his influence, extortion
CATEGORY #5: PERSONALITY & CHARACTER
Introvert or Extrovert?: Extrovert
Strengths: Cunning, making money and turning a significant profit
Weaknesses: Underestimates his opponents, hates whatever and whoever he can’t understand
Aspirations: To control everything he can control in Western Montana
Beliefs/Affiliations: The ends justify the means
Fears: Lack of control
Get To Know My Characters: Edward Zimmerman
Learn more about Edward Zimmerman from my Jeremiah Halstead series.
CATEGORY#1: BASIC STATS
Name: Edward Zimmerman
Sex: Male
Gender: Male
Age: 35
Race: Anglo
Ethnicity: American
Culture: American outlaw
Height: 6’
Body type: Broad, muscular
Appearance: Bearded, unkept
Where is he from?: Kansas
CATEGORY #2: RELATIONSHIPS
Family: None, except for a brother he may have killed
Friends: Outlaws and reprobates of the worst order.
Colleagues: Rob Brunet, the French-Canadian outlaw who has spread terror on both sides of the border.
CATEGORY #3: THE SEXY STUFF
Sexual Orientation: Straight
What is he attracted to?: Money, pain, disruption, fame, and glory
Romantic Experience: Soiled doves
CATEGORY #4: SKILLS
Skills: Armed robbery, compunction, organization
Occupation/Schooling: None, but is literate.
Hobbies: Terrorizing anyone who stands in his way.
CATEGORY #5: PERSONALITY & CHARACTER
Introvert or Extrovert?: Very much an extrovert
Strengths: Unbreakable will, determination, vision of the bigger picture
Weaknesses: Ego, vengeance, underestimating his opponents
Aspirations: To carve an empire out of western Montana
Beliefs/Affiliations: Greed is a virtue. Might makes right.
Fears: Failure, incarceration and Jeremiah Halstead.
Get To Know My Characters: Billy Sunday
Learn more about Billy Sunday from my Aaron Mackey series.
CATEGORY#1: BASIC STATS
Sex: Male
Gender: Male
Age: 30
Race: African American
Ethnicity: American
Culture: Midwest (Missouri/Kansas/Nebraska area)
Height: 6’
Body type: Athletic
Appearance: Lanky, trail worn, flat-brimmed hat
Where is he from?: Kansas City, MI and surrounding states
CATEGORY #2: RELATIONSHIPS
Family: Mother and father and brothers in Kansas City
Friends: Aaron Mackey, Katherine Mackey, Jeremiah Halstead
Colleagues: Aaron Mackey, Katherine Mackey, Jeremiah Halstead
CATEGORY #3: THE SEXY STUFF
Sexual Orientation: Heterosexual
What is he attracted to?: Bravery, decency, loyalty
Romantic Experience: Not above visiting a house of ill repute. No steady girlfriend
CATEGORY #4: SKILLS
Skills: Expert shot with a Sharps .50 rifle, Winchester and Colt pistols. Skilled with a blade.
Occupation/Schooling: Former ‘Buffalo Soldier’, Master Sergeant, U.S. Cavalry, Former deputy sheriff of Dover Station, Montana and current Deputy U.S. Marshal of the State of Montana
Hobbies: Horses, rolling his own cigarettes and making a fine pot of coffee
CATEGORY #5: PERSONALITY & CHARACTER
Introvert or Extrovert?: Introvert
Strengths: Loyalty, resolve, sharpshooter, bravery, cool under fire
Weaknesses: Illiterate, pride, temperament
Aspirations: Finding love and protecting Aaron Mackey from others and from himself
Beliefs/Affiliations: Raised baptist, American patriot, ‘Live and let live’
Fears: Failure, lawlessness
Get To Know My Characters: Roger Cobb
Learn more about Roger Cobb from my University series.
CATEGORY#1: BASIC STATS
Name: Roger Cobb
Sex: M
Gender: M
Age: 40s
Race: Anglo
Ethnicity: American
Culture: American
Height: 5’8
Body type: Slight
Appearance: Pale skin, blondish hair and water-blue eyes
Where is he from?: Midwest
CATEGORY #2: RELATIONSHIPS
Family: Only child of an abusive father and an apathetic mother.
Friends: James Hicks
Colleagues: James Hicks
CATEGORY #3: THE SEXY STUFF
Sexual Orientation: Complicated and varied
What is he attracted to?: Truth, vice and his version of beauty
Romantic Experience: Varied among all genders and persuasions
CATEGORY #4: SKILLS
Skills: Enhanced interrogation tactics, tactical
Occupation/Schooling: Seminary school, psychiatry, rudimentary understanding of medicine
Hobbies: Expensive coffee, extortion, gathering intelligence, various S&M activities
CATEGORY #5: PERSONALITY & CHARACTER
Introvert or Extrovert?: Extrovert by profession, introvert by nature
Strengths: Tenacity, dedication, loyalty, honesty
Weaknesses: Indulgence, brutality, drug use, blind loyalty
Aspirations: Protecting his friends from the horrors of the world
Beliefs/Affiliations: The University, western democracy
Fears: Abandonment and irrelevancy
Get To Know My Characters: Charlie Doherty
Learn more about Charlie Doherty from my NY Crime series.
CATEGORY#1: BASIC STATS
Name: Charlie Doherty
Sex: Male
Gender: Male
Age: Late thirties
Race: Caucasion
Ethnicity: Irish American
Culture: American
Height: 5”7
Body type: Wiry and thin
Appearance: Gray flat-top, shaved at the sides. Gray coat and fedora. Tired eyes that had seen too much. Teeth yellowed from too many cigarettes and not enough protein.
Where is he from?: The Inwood section of Manhattan
CATEGORY #2: RELATIONSHIPS
Family: Married (THE WANDERING MAN), Separated (SLOW BURN, THE FAIRFAX INCIDENT)
Friends: Floyd Loomis, Jim Halloran, Andrew Carmichael, Terry Quinn, Jack Johnson
Colleagues: Floyd Loomis, Jim Halloran, Andrew Carmichael
CATEGORY #3: THE SEXY STUFF
Sexual orientation: Straight
What is he attracted to?: Flawed women
Romantic experience: Sufficient
CATEGORY #4: SKILLS
Skills: Tammany Hall bag man, investigation, .38 pistol, efficient use of a sap, combat training from WWI
Occupation/schooling: NYPD Academy, USMC boot camp during WWI
Hobbies: Cigarettes, insomnia, brooding.
CATEGORY #5: PERSONALITY & CHARACTER
Introvert or extrovert?: Introvert
Strengths: Tenacity, toughness, insight, reluctant compassion, blind loyalty
Weaknesses: Jaded, corruption, cynicism
Aspirations: To make as much money as he can in a crooked system for himself and his family. To protect Chief Carmichael from scandal.
Beliefs/affiliations: Tammany Hall, NYPD, USMC, himself.
Fears: Failure, ruin, scandal and disgrace
Get To Know My Characters: James Hicks
This is a new feature I’m trying out, so I figured the best place to begin is with the main character in my University Novels, James Hicks.
CATEGORY#1: BASIC STATS
Sex: Male
Gender: Male
Age: Classified, but around 40.
Race: White
Ethnicity: American
Culture: American
Height: 5’ 11”
Body type: Lean
Appearance: Varied. Prefers comfortable, off-the-rack clothing that does not draw attention. Often sports more than a day’s worth of stubble and has been described as resembling a bicycle messenger down on his luck.
Where is he from?: Iowa
CATEGORY #2: RELATIONSHIPS
Family: Parents deceased.
Friends: None
Colleagues: Roger Cobb, Scott, Jonathan, other associates
CATEGORY #3: THE SEXY STUFF
Sexual orientation: Hetero
What is he attracted to?: Varies, but University profile notes an attraction to older blond females
Romantic experience: Flawed and failed
CATEGORY #4: SKILLS
Skills: Espionage, cyber-warfare, urban warfare, assassination, weapons, tactics, survival, interrogation, skilled pilot of fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters.
Occupation/schooling: United States Coast Guard Intelligence (Lt.), Dean of The University
Hobbies: Brooding, scotch
CATEGORY #5: PERSONALITY & CHARACTER
Introvert or extrovert?: Depends on the situation
Strengths: Tenacity, situational insight, command presence, cunning and creativity.
Weaknesses: Has trouble forming meaningful relationships, trust issues, anger management issues
Aspirations: A secure western hemisphere
Beliefs/affiliations: The United States is a dream worth fighting for.
Fears: Failure