Lea returns to America after escaping from Russian penal colony, the beginning of Memorial Day: “Propped up by nearly identical VA-issued aluminum canes, two bent old men in dark blue uniforms leaned over to salute a headless gray granite statue…
#Danger
Personal risk
Iraqi Hit Team
The Prologue of “Goshawk:” “Like a grotesque nightmare, a silent slide show of horrors cycled through Layla’s exhausted brain. She relived pushing her younger brother, Sami, on an old tire hanging from a frayed rope behind Liberate the Delta Secondary…
North Country Justice
Here’s an initial part of Doug McPheters’s “Stepping on Fingers,” where Lea Holderness is sent to a Russian penal colony by a US religious court for disagreeing with new laws restricting traditional Americans freedoms: “But I didn’t do anything wrong! …
Crisis in the Subway
A peek at action in “Stepping on Fingers:” “David gave Gillespie a sharp hip-check. Gillespie lost his grip on his litigation bag and tumbled onto the train tracks, landing in a puddle of used condoms, cigarette butts and yesterday’s third…
Dawn Falls – Love in the beginning of “Goshawk”
“Goshawk” begins in Savonlinna, Finland: “Nothing’s more erotic than sitting cheek to thigh with you in the sauna, unless it’s having your head on my shoulder and listening to your heart beat in this luxurious bed, under our own fluffy…
“Stepping on Fingers” – Welcome to the Russian Penal Colony
A snippet of “Stepping on Fingers:” – Lea’s eerie preview of a bomb being sewn into her neck: “Something was tearing into the base of my skull, a silent, ripping power drill. Sticky fingerprints of the last nightmare clouded my…
Flying out of Danger with Marja’s Help
A bit of “Goshawk” – flying from danger in an experimental jet designed by the hero, named Goshawk: “Roger, Tower, copy cleared takeoff runway Two Romeo.” Again pushing her throttle yoke forward slightly and giving her right engine slightly more…
A Bit of Goshawk – Running from the Killers
A piece of early action in “Goshawk “Flushed with adrenaline, David hesitated for what seemed like an eternity to look cautiously up and down the long hall and listen, and then listen some more before continuing. Convinced he was alone,…
Turkey Dinner in a Hurricane
It was Thanksgiving and the diesel-electric submarine, USS Tigrone (SS-419), was running on the surface during a strong hurricane in the Atlantic ocean. Its assignment was to play rabbit for a nuclear fast-attack submarine running at a deep and comfortable…
“Goshawk” Starts
Beginnings of “Goshawk” in the Lake Country of Finland: “Like a grotesque nightmare, a silent slideshow of horrors cycled through Layla’s exhausted brain. She relived pushing her younger brother, Sami, on an old tire hanging from a frayed rope behind…
