Heinz Werner Höber (1931 in Bärenstein – 15 May 1996) was a very prolific pulp fiction author who produced many novels about the fictitious FBI-agent Jerry Cotton and eventually sued his publisher because he felt he had been entitled to receive royalties.
Consequently, the young Heinz Werner Höber started writing early his own Wild West stories, dreaming about having a career like Karl May, who had finally escaped poverty for good once he had published his famous tales about the fictional Wild West pioneer Old Shatterhand and the Native American Winnetou.
After the war, Heinz Werner Höber befriended a Russian officer and on his way to West Germany he had the opportunity to visit the Karl May museum in Radebeul.
He worked diligently on the new stories and, driven by his ambitions to walk in the footsteps of Karl May, he performed a lot of research on the FBI and on New York.
But as opposite to Karl May he didn't reach any fame because allegedly the G-man Jerry Cotton wrote all his tales himself.