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.

LEARN MORE ABOUT MY JEREMIAH HALSTEAD SERIES

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.

LEARN MORE ABOUT MY JEREMIAH HALSTEAD SERIES

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 

LEARN MORE ABOUT MY JEREMIAH HALSTEAD SERIES

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. 

LEARN MORE ABOUT MY JEREMIAH HALSTEAD SERIES

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

LEARN MORE ABOUT MY AARON MACKEY SERIES

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

LEARN MORE ABOUT MY UNIVERSITY SERIES

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

LEARN MORE ABOUT MY NEW YORK CRIME SERIES

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

LEARN MORE ABOUT MY UNIVERSITY SERIES