Books in the Johann Gunther series

"It's 1900. Three young doctors celebrate their graduation from medical school with a dinner on the San Francisco docks--until they're kidnapped and shanghaied to China. The doctors' families are rich, and they entice Vice President Teddy Roosevelt into organizing a secret rescue mission. Teddy dispatches his former Cuban War veteran officer, Major Gunther, from the Philippines to run the top-secret mission, but not without first destroying the rotten shanghai operation on the bay"--Back cover.

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