Bob Cook


Biography

The author graduated from Florida Presbyterian College, now Eckerd College, in St. Pete with a degree in Sociology. He began his career as a counselor in a program for serious and habitual juvenile offenders in Pennsylvania. He moved with his family to Florida in the late 1960s and made a career with the State of Florida in all manner of children and youth programs. When he retired from the state, he was serving as a program manager responsible for almost all programs related to children including foster care, abuse, neglect,adoptions, etc.
His head is full of stories from those years and he draws on his experiences in his novels. He writes will a great deal of action, humor, and pathos.

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Books

Some Boys Never Become Men    by Bob Cook
Price: $2.99 USD. 92580 words. Published on December 7, 2011. Fiction.

Working out of Pensacola, Florida, Beth Jacoby, a child abuse and neglect investigator and her co-workers fly about town in and out of the living rooms of folks accused of hurting children. Her path into the private domains of rich and poor alike crosses that of her once teen lover, Jack, a California cool cop, and his partner, a thunderous loose cannon who dearly loves the war on crime.
Some People Need Killing    by Bob Cook
Price: $2.99 USD. 66690 words. Published on December 7, 2011. Fiction.

This book is dedicated to people who work daily with dependent children, children who are physically abused, sexually abused, neglected, or abandoned, in particular Child Abuse Investigators. This work is fictional and a little over the top to keep the pages turning. It deals not only with child abuse investigators, but also cops, murder, and relevant social issues.
A Different Kind of Killer    by Bob Cook
Price: $2.99 USD. 49350 words. Published on December 7, 2011. Fiction.

This is a compilation of stories that centers loosely around the theme of men who would be boys, that conflicting combination of behavior that often mystifies both significant others and themselves. Enter the secret world of close male friends free of wives and children, free to their own devices to play or to take up more serious matters.

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