THE COWARDLY LION, Volume Six, Chapter II
David White stared at me, his expression one of initial shock wearing toward unwilling acceptance. Watching him make up his mind was an exercise in patience, but also a participation in entertainment. I waited for him to move. Movement meant life. Movement meant...
THE COWARDLY LION, Volume Six, Chapter III
The Fletcher coasted to a complete stop in the middle of the estuary pond. Dave got hold of the poles and set them so they’d protrude out over the water, both on the hull facing away from the estate. I unlimbered the rifle from its leather case below the edge of the...
THE COWARDLY LION, Volume Six, Chapter IV
The Galaxy was headed for Travis Air Force Base, which meant, since Travis was about sixty-five miles northeast of the airport in San Francisco, that Dave and I would have to make that trip and then fly commercial home, he to Scottsdale and me to Albuquerque. There...
THE COWARDLY LION, Volume Six, Chapter V
The money for Nguyen and Kingsley had to be retrieved from the paymaster at the Air Force Base, and I knew I was the only one who could present himself in person to claim it. The system, all military and civil governmental systems, were peculiarly protective of cash...
THE COWARDLY LION, Volume Six, Chapter VI
The road that wasn’t a road appeared before me, as I crawled to come to its rough edge. I was facing Albuquerque. My sense of direction returned, and the terror of being killed, once again, was replaced by a dedicated desire to right the balance of justice in my...
THE COWARDLY LION, Volume Six, Chapter VII
I waited for Quincy to come to me across the parking lot. That he was here at all was evidence that something in my logical equation of what had happened earlier was wrong. Men did not come back to confess to trying to kill you or be a part of such an...
THE COWARDLY LION, Volume Six, Chapter VIII
The train ran. The locomotive puffed smoke and made a singular sound as it raced around the small track under the tree. I celebrated with Quincy, both of us way too inebriated to do anything but thank God, for his intervention in helping us bring the hundreds of parts...
THE COWARDLY LION, Volume Six, Chapter IX
I could not let the security of my family lie in the hands of CIA handlers, even those like my war hero in two wars control officer. The move to have Marlow incorporated and then included in active DEA missions was inconclusive to me. He had to be motivated to get out...
THE COWARDLY LION, Volume Six, Chapter X
I held back for a few seconds before committing. I was in Albuquerque, USA, and not in some combat zone, no matter what had happened earlier. If the car twenty meters away held hostiles, then people were going to die, with possibly the three of us among the dead. ...
THE COWARDLY LION, Volume Six, Chapter XI
I left Nash to organize and gather his family to join my own. He called Becky, his wife, and arranged things on our home phone, which both pleased and impressed me. He carefully placed the 12 gauge near the back door from the garage into the kitchen, but high on a...
THE COWARDLY LION, Volume Six, Chapter XII
I sat thinking while inside the Jeep while Marlowe waited to find out if he was to live or die. There was no real decision to make. His firing at me, even though he wasn’t a sniper, should have taken me out earlier, no matter how I dodged and squirmed. Short-range...
THE COWARDLY LION, Volume Six, Chapter XIII
I made it to the parking lot but had to turn back as Kingsley had my keys and I’d left no instructions for any of the staff or my men, much less the four new quasi-agents for the insurance operation. One of those agents was quite something I’d briefly heard. Joan...
THE COWARDLY LION Volume Six, Chapter XIV
The pell-mell rush to Anderson Valley Vineyards was a success, except for the ballooning part. Kris had the folded and refolded envelope in its canvas bag, standing next to the basket, which had the two big burners thrusting upward from a brace up across from its...
THE COWARDLY LION, Volume Six, Chapter XV
“There are no secure lines anywhere around or in Heathrow the young British police officer said, not the kind I think you are talking about. You would have to go to the American embassy downtown.” I turned away in frustration and walked back to the King Air, noting...
THE COWARDLY LION, Volume Six, Chapter XVI
I hung up the phone after getting assurances from Tony that the cash would be available at the base on the following day. The payroll office would have it, but I wondered what the effect would be of so much cash going in and out of that place, which was staffed by...Subscribe to FROM THE WILDERNESS
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