Dr. Bill Brooks has narrated 6 audiobooks on Listento.it by 5 authors, with an average listener rating of 5★ across 2 ratings. The most-rated is MASH: An Army Surgeon in Korea.
MASH: An Army Surgeon in Korea
Summary
When North Korean forces invaded South Korea on June 25, 1950, Otto Apel was a surgical resident living in Cleveland, Ohio, with his wife and three young children. A year later he was chief surgeon of the 8076th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital, constantly near the front lines in Korea. Immediately upon arriving in camp, Apel performed 80 hours of surgery. His feet swelled so badly, he had to cut his boots off, and he saw more surgical cases in those three and a half days than he would have in a year back in Cleveland. In addition to his own story, Apel details the operating conditions, workload, and patient care at the MASH units while revealing the remarkable advances made in emergency medical care. MASH units were the first hospitals designed for operations close to the front lines, and from this particularly difficult vantage their medical staffs were responsible for innovations in the use of antibiotics and blood plasma and in arterial repair. On film and television, MASH doctors and nurses have been portrayed as irreverent and having little patience with standard military procedures. In this powerful memoir, Apel reveals just how realistic these portrayals were. The book is published by The University Press of Kentucky.
©1998 The University Press of Kentucky (P)2015 Redwood Audiobooks
U.S. Marshal
Summary
US Marshal, M D (Shorty) Thompson received a letter at his Fort Tularosa ranch, in western New Mexico. "Dear Shorty, it saddens me to let you know Matt was killed and robbed of $11,000 and was buried today. April 19, 1881. Almost half of the stolen money was to pay off our ranch which the bank will foreclose on the first day of September. I know who killed my husband but the law cannot find him. It has been told he has family in Montana. I need your help if at all possible, or the children and I shall lose the ranch." Sincerely, Nadine Rogers Matt was one of Shorty's best friends, they had worked on ranches' together back in their teen years and were as close as any brothers. Shorty told his partner Buffalo he may be gone for months, but will write when he can. That night he cleaned and oiled his guns. As the sun came up the next morning, he was miles closer to Big Spring, Texas.
©2017 Paul L. Thompson (P)2017 Outlaws Publishing LLC
U.S. Marshal Shorty Thompson: Cowboy Cody Strickland
Summary
Eighteen-year-old cowboy Cody Strickland lost his parents to an illness that he didn’t understand. Saddened, confused, and alone, he saddled up and rode north, stopping and working awhile, but bounced around from one location to another. He was free to come and go as he pleased. His new boss on the Double Bar X Ranch put his trust in Cody after only a couple of months. He was to go along on a cattle drive from northeast of Cheyenne, Wyoming all the way to Salt Lake City, Utah. The worst snows in history hit the Utah Mountains, so Cody had to lay over months before making his long trip back with the $26,000 of cattle money that he had collected. Coming upon a wounded man, he could not leave him to die, alone. Patching him up and taking him home proved to be a bigger chore than anyone would expect. Outlaws and gold-robbing thieves kidnap the rancher’s daughter and that sets Cody on a rescue mission that leads all over northern and western Colorado and southern Wyoming. With the very pretty daughter, two packhorses loaded with gold, and angry men on their trail, this little cowboy has to do some fancy shooting. Men should have been killed, but Cody let them live, now he and the girl are riding all out for the ranch. Cody knows how to muddy a trail, just ride in rivers, over mountains, and keep doubling back. Never ride in a straight line too long. They make it to the ranch where they think there is safety. Just how wrong can one little cowboy be?
©August 2017 Paul L. Thompson (P)2017 Outlaws Publishing LLC
Outlaws: A Western Adventure
Summary
Marshal "one-eyed" Jack Black is urgently called to Apache Pass, Arizona, between Dos Cabezas and the Chiricahua Mountains to order a wagon train to turn back to avoid an impending hostile attack. Will the marshal get there in time? Jack's best friend is named US deputy marshal, but things go wrong on the first day, and a serious crime is committed. Will the new deputy solve the mystery without the help of Marshal Black? Zebadiah Wretchly was a wicked man who used slaves to work his turquoise mines. But exactly who are these forced laborers? And is it true that Jack and Gloria's relationship has taken a severe turn and what will Jack do about it? Listen to Outlaws, the fifth book in the Marshal Jack Black series, to find out what really happens in this latest novel from Ash Lingam.
©2019 David Walton (P)2019 David Walton
United States Marshal Shorty Thompson: A Western Adventure
Summary
Saddle up and ride the same wild lonesome trails as US Marshal Shorty Thompson did in the 1870s through the 1890s. Feel the dry heat of hot desert floors and the bitter cold of snow-covered mountain passes, as Shorty gets shot and survives as he goes after lawless men. Though the novels are written about things that happened over 140 years ago, many of the old towns can be visited today. Many are in ruins, destroyed, but others still survive as haunting ghost towns. Western history lives on in this series. This is one you don't want to miss. This is the beginning of the Shorty Thompson US Marshal stories.
©2015 Paul L. Thompson (P)2017 Outlaws Publishing LLC
Deadly Mail Order Brides: A Will Cannon, Bounty Hunter, Western Adventure Novel
Summary
Will Cannon finds out there is a gang of outlaws terrorizing the law abiding citizens in Waco, Texas and he hopes he has found the Blackman Gang. Blackman and his gang of cutthroats killed Will's family and Will cannot rest until Blackman and every member of his gang are dead. Will rides to Waco and finds a gang of outlaws is using murderous mail order brides to kill the husband and steal his property. The outlaw gang is being run by an evil woman and she has plenty of hired killers on her payroll. Will works to bring law and order and justice to Waco.
©2012 Larry Ray Hill (P)2017 Larry Hill