THE COWARDLY LION, Volume Six, Chapter XIII

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 XI

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 IX

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 VIII

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 VII

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...

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