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...
THE COWARDLY LION, Volume Five, Chapter XIV

THE COWARDLY LION, Volume Five, Chapter XIV

Wing proceeded out to the busy street from the alley we’d been huddled in and ran toward the closest taxi, brilliant red.I stared at the door of the taxi and was stunned as I backed into the building wall on the other side of which was the room of cages I’d slept or...
THE COWARDLY LION, Volume Five, Chapter X

THE COWARDLY LION, Volume Five, Chapter X

I turned toward the big tent where everyone was gathering for the first class, but I walked as if on some sort of surface made of Jello. Ben’s comment, driving into my heart like a lance, caused me to literally shiver in apprehension. If McCain would do such a thing,...

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