Second book in the Taken Trilogy, Marcus becomes a chef, gets a crush on an alien chick, is named military boss, is captured, un-captured, and zooms away towards the third book. I SWEAR I read this book before, but it is not in the data base. Apparently didn't make enough impression on me to start sounding familiar until page 85.
A vet cares for wildlife that is injured, and starts the Northwoods Wildlife Hospital And Rehabilitation Center in Wisconsin. He passed away from ALS two years after the books was published, in 1987. Which was three years before we bought it. I also found out that he, his partner, and his brother started a very successful pet supplies business, which continues to this day.
Jake is suspended from college for drinking, and decides to get a job at the "steel mill" his father and grandfather worked at. He meets men of a much different background than he, and learns a bit about how the world really is before he goes back to college. I enjoyed reading this novel, but I kept projecting myself into the Jake character, except Jake is rather smarter than I am!
Neil Griffon takes over his father's racing stables after an accident while his father mends, and some psycho Italian makes him takes on his son as an apprentice.
Diplomat Peter Darwin (no relation) returns to the site of his youth to find out who is causing the death of the horses his new friend Ken (a vet) has operated on.
Co-authored with Felix Francis. Tom comes back from the war in Afghanistan missing foot to stay with his horse-trainer mother. Good, dependable (as The Seattle Times said)horses-and-crime story. My only question is, what happened to Tom's watch?
Chef Max caters a meal and 200 or so people get sick. REALLY sick. And then there's the bomb. And later, his house is burned. And before that, his brakes are tampered with. And he meets a hot viola player. But later, he gets whacked with a polo mallet, then nearly blown up again! Yikes! Good stuff, better than his last book, I think. And always remember to boil the kidney beans!