THE COWARDLY LION, Volume Two, Chapter XVIII

THE COWARDLY LION, Volume Two, Chapter XVIII

  Detective Hoodoo instructed Gularte and I to depart the beach scene, as he and the ‘team’ of lifeguards would handle the situation from then on. He’d already given that order but neither Gularte nor I had moved. Instead of re-issuing the earlier command he...
THE COWARDLY LION,Volume Two, Chapter XVII

THE COWARDLY LION,Volume Two, Chapter XVII

I finished the shift with Herberich and Gularte. Nobody got shot, and they sort of bonded in that single time together. Not with me, but with each other. I understood, in the back seat, that I wasn’t really bondable material. I had my wife and daughter and that was...
THE COWARDLY LION, Volume Two, CHAPTER XIV

THE COWARDLY LION, Volume Two, CHAPTER XIV

  I drove the Marauder to the pier in silence, neither Gularte nor I saying a word, even as the vehicle, much heavier than the Bronco built for the off-road job of patrolling the beach and incidental structures, made a smooth surface out of the rough wooden slat...
THE COWARDLY LION, Volume Two, Chapter XII

THE COWARDLY LION, Volume Two, Chapter XII

The din coming from the interior of the party house was deafening. I moved inside, stepping to the left in order to keep my right hand free, and also allow Gularte to be a second target instead of both of us potentially being taken as one. There were about a dozen...
THE COWARDLY LION, Volume Two, Chapter X

THE COWARDLY LION, Volume Two, Chapter X

I entered the Union Bank Building elevator, the building itself located on the grounds of the Fashion Island shopping center in Newport Beach. The building was just another square high rise but the elevator buttons pointed out one uncommon irregularity. The address I...