Books by Hock Hochheim

GUNTHER RIDES AGAIN.A young Johann Gunther becomes a Lawman in Paris, Texas. Then he joins the army, fights in Cuba, The Philippines and China. But 23 years later he must return to Paris, Texas yet again and fight an international gang war, vendetta, and save his old French police chief while attempting to save the whole city from a fiery destruction. "When you put on that badge, remember this. Every country has its medieval times. Murders, rapes, robberies, crime, war, slavery and horrors. When you put on that badge, you take all this on. These are America's medieval times..." - Chief Gustav Henri

Whether he's hot on the trail of a killer who carves off his victim's faces, or putting together the pieces of a case to bring a local college professor's killer to justice, Hock Hochheim is relentless as he investigates a plethora of criminals, tracks them down and brings them to justice. In Don't Even Think About It, Hock shares the details of his life investigating crime. He tells how he escaped New York City on a motorcycle headed for Australia only to end up in Texas dodging bullets and tracking down criminals, first as a security guard, then in Asia working for Uncle Sam as a military policeman and investigator. Hock also explains how he parlayed military service in law enforcement into civilian police investigations, private eye and bodyguard careers that, together, span nearly three decades. Don't Even Think About It educates, while it entertains, and leaves the reader turning pages well into the night. Along the way Hock reveals the thrills, spills and mysteries as well as the missteps, he encountered serving in law enforcement both in the U.S. and abroad. For anyone considering a career in law enforcement, or for readers interested in real crime stories, Don't Even Think About It is a MUST READ. It both educates and entertains while leaving the reader hungry for more.

In Dead Right There, Hock Hochheim stops a jail break, narrowly avoids being shot in his car, and hunts down a vindictive killer who shot a man through his own dining room window as he ate dinner with his family. And that’s just for starters. In this sequel to Don’t Even Think About It Hock Hochheim investigates a plethora of criminals, tracks them down and testifies at their trials.  Dead Right There reads like fiction but it’s all based on Hock’s life investigating crime and bringing criminals to justice.  In a time before SWAT, Hock himself has climbed in windows with gun drawn, busted down doors and collected evidence that put many a criminal behind bars.  Along the way Hock reveals the thrills, spills and mysteries as well as the missteps, he encountered serving in law enforcement both in the U.S. and abroad.  He shares how he discovered his first dead body, first mass killing, and the story of a psycho who just couldn’t quite identify the men who robbed her and nearly killed her husband.   For anyone considering a career in law enforcement, or for readers interested in real crime stories, Dead Right There is a MUST READ. It both educates and entertains while leaving the reader hungry for more.

Johann Gunther, is a German immigrant, a West Point graduate, ex-U.S. Army officer and former Oklahoma lawman. At the turn of the 20th Century, he runs a problem-solving agency in Ft. Worth, Texas called Remedies, Inc. where if the fee is right, he works as a private detective, a gun fighter, bodyguard and all-around trouble-shooter for hire. He operates in a new world of changing politics, inventive science and exploding technology. In 1906, when U. S. Army Colonel Vito Latissimo and his unit disappear on an discovery expedition in Afghanistan, President Theodore Roosevelt suspects an international, criminal conspiracy. He asks his former Rough Rider Lieutenant, Gunther to act as his free-lance agent and accompany the follow-up British and American mission to locate this officer. Along for the investigation are Latissimo's ill, angry and deserted wife, her beautiful caretaker niece, an aged cavalry company, geographic society's photographers, a reckless English Commander, his British Lancers and a division of Indian Sepoy soldiers. After the assassination of the U.S. contingent's leader, Gunther reluctantly ends up in charge of the American unit. They find Latissimo alive, well and scheming, and Gunther uncovers a plot to assist Russia in the Great Game of disrupting Britain in both India and Afghanistan, plus a traitor's mad scheme to become king of the far Khyber Pass. Gunther outwits foreign spies and revenges a murder on a cruise ship in the Straits of Gibraltar. He battles savage tribes, escapes religious riots in Bombay, crushes Jihadists and American cutthroats in the northwest frontier of Afghanistan, and leads a climatic charge of a stone fort on the top of the world. The classic, serial hero returns in the form of Johann Gunther in this tale of wild, unpredictable, high action and international adventure.