THE COWARDLY LION, Volume Five, Chapter XXII

THE COWARDLY LION, Volume Five, Chapter XXII

There were some small details to be cleaned up, so I drove off the freeway at the Old Santa Fe Trail exit and eased the Benz down the twisty old trail, now a two-lane highway, into downtown Santa Fe toward the plaza or one block park at the very center of the capital...
THE COWARDLY LION, Volume Five, Chapter XXI

THE COWARDLY LION, Volume Five, Chapter XXI

The call to my control officer wasn’t a pleasant one, as Herbert didn’t want to discuss my using the CIA-backed American Express card for the purchase of school texts. Almost seven hundred dollars for three books, written in South Africa and printed in Italy, were...
THE COWARDLY LION, Volume Five, Chapter XIX

THE COWARDLY LION, Volume Five, Chapter XIX

With both Marcinko and I riding inside the Rover and the radio off, there was a silence punctuated only by the sound of passing air as we traveled, the whine of the V8 well insulated under the hood and the hiss of radial tires passing over hot asphalt. Marcinko had...
THE COWARDLY LION, Volume Five, Chapter XVI

THE COWARDLY LION, Volume Five, Chapter XVI

I turned to my ‘team’ and sat down once more at the table, as the four of us came together and they might understand why I’d made the strongly worded requests to Robert Burns that I had. “We aren’t going to need or want heavy weapons of any sort and no pyrotechnics...
THE COWARDLY LION, Volume Five, Chapter XV

THE COWARDLY LION, Volume Five, Chapter XV

Wearing my blue suit made me basically unnoticeable once down into the elevator’s final ding-dong to exit. Business in Hong Kong was all suits and ties with mostly white shirts and red ties of one sort or another, plus Caucasians were anything but out of place. I...

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