Bøger af John Warren Self

Bobby flew to Paris with that doctor to escape the hoodlums. He felt the need to escape them in Europe. He fled France with Suzette to Switzerland and then Italy. He was still running when he returned to New Orleans. He quickly fled again to Jackson Hole, Wyoming with several women including Dana and Lidia from Cheyenne.Then Philippe's house of cards fell in on him with various old personal vendetta ending in murders on plantation. The murders only started with Carlos' death. Bobby made an escape to Cheyenne with Rick. They moved in with Dana and Lidia on their ranches.

Ursula Gilmore had shady plans for the near future to make a good living in addition to her trust. She would put the plan in motion prior to the main seasonal events of the Volusia County, Florida area, Daytona Beach events, including Turkey Rod Run, Race-weeks and Bike-week. She was not qualified for her plan. She was a college drop out that had no skills. She had fake credentials to help cover that. That included a master's degree, and claiming she was twenty-five years old, when she was only twenty-one. She was able to do that thanks to her computer hacking skills .Her story about her life went unquestioned at first. She had plenty of dealing cash and the money she took from her drug dealing partners, including her brother. She was who she claimed as long she was spending money in that town. The problem for her was that there were people with other such plans around. The law was looking for some of them as well. She had enemies among them that allowed her to live if she was useful to them. She came back to that area because she missed her former high school and college lover and roommate, Cody Carpenter. He graduated from college in pre-med with drug use problems. She loved to travel with him by motorcycle. She liked being his girlfriend and had no interest in being his fourth wife. He was divorced from his third one by his undergraduate graduation day. ********** FOLKS FROM ALL OVER There was a time several Generations ago before tall smokestacks seem to reach the zodiac were in the deep past, in those earlier times folks emitted lots of black deeply dirty elicit soot to the sky, most of these tropical condo folks are from only a few generations well in the past not surpassing it, Ursula lived during a time more recent than in the far distant past, folks once lived-in a world powered by nuclear plants, folks knew how to generate them, still the folks had no clues of how to shut anything down safely, their only plan was to leave them run until out of power for good. **********

He did not plan on having his dinner meal at a steakhouse or anything like that. Still he was not interested in cooking at home. He was not sure about where to go. So, he thought about it a bit.Then he remembered the Biscuits and Gravy Diner down the street.He decided to stop off for American food at that diner. He entered the place greeting a few people he knew since he could remember. Then he finally sat down at a table.Then he threw his lit cigarette on a gasoline-soaked rag. They did not see a flicker or a small flame at the bar across the street. The detective pushed the lit cigarette away from the chemicals and put out the small flame. He said. "Damn, Sam!""Okay, I thought it all out. I didn't expect you here.""This wouldn't have been some fireworks coming out of the roof and through the doors and windows of the diner. It would have a real wallop, a thunderbolt.""I'msorry!""Me too," he put handcuffs on him, arresting him and he was taken to jail.Sam Daily tried to pack enough of a wallop to make certain that the firemen could not put thefire out. Biscuits and Gravy Diner and the Church burned to the ground before the first fire truck arrived.But less than a week later, Detective Charles visited Patty Daily. He found her packing her things to leave there to return to live in Baltimore, Maryland. The detective was trying to make some sense of why Sam Daily tried to blow up his diner, her car, and the other properties.She told him that it was a whirlwind romance. They met, got married, it fell apart on the honeymoon, and she asked for a divorce only a few weeks into the marriage. "I thought we were truly lovers the first days at the hotel. Sam returned to the hotel suite from lobby after checking on some scheduling with the clerk. He did not tell me that he was going out." She explained in more detail. "Where were you?" I asked.

Paul's father, Mr. Richardson drove past the spot on the riverbank where his son was fishing with Artie Glenolden and others that included Stanley McCormick. He went in the store near there and saw Stanley. He greeted him. "You're the guy they call Stretch?""And you're Mr. Richardson, Paul's father?""Your life must stink too. I wonder about you coming out the mountain as you claimed. Does your life suck as much as mine?""Wow. You're sure a negative fellow.""My wife, kids and the neighbor's dog all hate me.""Who would figure that?""My wife kept pushing me for us to move away from here. Then she changed her mind about it once I agreed with her for us to do it." * * *"What? That man that they found in the river has been called a self-defense case. Some widow killed him.""The sheriff's deputy had some old warrants on him for crimes committed from several years ago. Mr. McCormick must have seen him coming and he was gone when I show the deputy to his room.""Oh no! I suppose I need to pay his bill?""He didn't check out. Still he left enough money behind to pay for the room and a tip.""That's Stretch for you.""Who?""Oh, we call him that.""Sure.""I suspect that he didn't say anything about where he was going?""No, it seems that he just ran off. Wherever he when it was on foot.""I guess that is that. Thank you. I'll leave here now and let you work on this room in peace," and then she drove back toward home."Matte stopped at the Glenolden farm before returning to her home. She saw Artie's grandfather as she pulled in the driveway. She got out of her car and he greeted her. She told him what she felt she could say. She left out her sleepovers with him and such things. Then she asked him about the boys. "Has Artie and Paul returned home?""The boys are staying with Paul's relatives in the mountains all summer.""So, you found them?""Yes. They will be back in time to attend high school this fall.""Yes, they will be in high school now."

Sue Hess saved a young lady's and prevented a sexual attack at the beach near the seawall. She also took the life of the predator, Peter Grove, a nearly elderly man. Sue was one of a few people that was aware that he was always a shady pedophile.She was aware of that since she claimed to witness this sinister man pick up her, eight-year-old, brother by the neck. She yelled at him, a twenty year, to put him down. He failed to do that. So, the, seventeen-year-old, girl pulled him up out of the man's hands. Sue's car. He was a pedophile cornered to death in a sink hole between a car and beach seawall.Her story about her brother was believed by her mother. So, her mother failed to tell the police nor the hospital nurse the true while taking statements about the boy. Grove was never caught for his worse crimes. He never paid the price until he was cornered up against a sea wall.

A surfer was flying to the Flordia beach after finishing high school. The attendant was wearing her anger on her sleeve creating enemies on the plane.

Ronny grew up in a residential neighborhood east of Oasis, California living with his parents. They lived to the west of his late uncle's former cattle ranch as well.Ronny thought of himself as being a future cattleman as a boy. His uncle felt that Ronny wanted the rancher life when he visited his ranch during does earlier the summers. Sam wondered why Bobby emailed him when he never answered any of them in the past. He received no more emails since the wave split the state in into two parts.Sam was curious about whether Bobby went Oregon. He called Bobby's parents about that. His father answered his phone. "Hi Sam.""Hi sir, you heard about the big island in the Pacific?""Yes, a bad tidal wave. We all survived it here in San Jose.""Also, I heard about that and that you didn't evacuate either?""Yes.""Have you heard anything about Bobby?""Did you know that I stopped bailing him out of the LA county jail.""He was annoyed with you about that in one of his emails.""He's been emailing you?" "Yes. Still, he has no email address.""I see. Well, police near Oasis called about him stealing a camper-pickup truck south-east of Oasis and a hotel cash drawer in Oakland just before the wave struck. So, he is wanted for that and now he's been missing.""I see.""What about this email he sent you?""His last one, he said that he was hitch-hiking to Oregon.""It seems that he stole that truck to get away from there. It might be of interest of the Oasis Police if you inform them about that email?""Right," and they ended the call.

Charlie Metz would normally just walk in Lydia's parent's house. That day was different. She gave Charlie a farewell kiss, and he flew to California the next day and returned after four years. * * *John walks in the bed and breakfast near the beach. Nan invites him for a chat her office. Then she allows Joey Grove to stay there the entire summer after that. She said. "John, Joey stays with you a short while. Besides he said that he is returning to Manhattan in a few days."Grove makes himself at home. He even begins to support himself mainly by shoplifting and hustling people at darts and such. * * *Grove walks to the beach. He saw John. "Johnny boy, you're just in time for the beach.""I'm beat and I'm going to bed.""I'll have all the beach bunnies.""I guess so, see you."People have been shuffling along the boardwalk. Some of them were beginning to walk down the steps on to the fine white sand of the beach. Several bunches of girls showed no interest in him. Among them on the boardwalk were four from Carmichaels, Pennsylvania. Norma is eager to be him. "Look at that hot looking guy on the beach." "He is good looking," Sandy said."Cool, let's throw out our blanket by his," Norma replied.Lydia was clearly in no mood for Norma's idea of a New York minute. Melissa asked."Let us go and sunbathe down there. Who cares how cute he is?" "Yeah, he looks cool to me," Norma said."Oh, let Norma have her fun with that guy."They walk off the boardwalk down the wooden steps on to the beach still chatting among themselves. They were walking only a few feet from Scott Blake and his beach towel. Blake yelled to them. "Hey babes this space right next to me is yours!""He's sure of himself," Lydia said to them."He's cute, and he really seems cool!" Norma said and put their blanket near his towel.Melissa, Lydia, and Sandy were only looking for a place to take in the sun. They were easily sold on what Norma felt about putting their blanket next to him. His excitement was mainly over Melissa. * * *Blake wore out his welcome in Carmichaels and New York by winter. He disappears in hiding avoiding his enemies. John went back to college. John feels that Karen is from him gone forever.Charlie entered the hotel bar to visit his friend Big Jeff who was bartending just after he returned home. Jeff comments. "Welcome, it seems early for you. Can I bring you a beer?""Good morning Jeff. Put on some coffee," and he made the coffee. * * *Then Daryl Christopher enters the bar for coffee. They were not aware he spent the night with Bev in room 106. They greet one another and Jeff pours coffee for the three of them. Charlie asked him about his early visit there. "Daryl, what are you doing here do, early in the day?""I think my father threw a purse in the trash at home. I think it belongs to a woman here.""Let's see it?" Jeff asked. "It's the murdered woman's."That question leads only to Dan's home in West Virginia. Daryl shows them it. They find a picture identification card inside it. Charlie remarks. "That looks like that dead Jane Doe woman, Helen Dunn.""You saw her before?" Jeff asked Daryl."No, just this purse.""I saw her dead in that gully." Charlie replies and asks Daryl about the thing. "Who threw the purse in the trash?""I don't know, it was on the ground in front of the trash cans when I approached the house. It appeared that it must have fallen out of the trash can.""Daryl, this is the woman that was beaten and murdered," Charlie replies."Oh, is it?""Yes.""Neither of you should be handling it. It how has your DNA and fingerprints," Jeff said, and he gets a bag for it as Charlie takes a picture of the woman's photo."I can't let you have this," Jeff said.Daryl grabs the purse back. He hands it to Charlie. Later Charlie and Jeff find the killer and Melisa's beater.

As boys, Jim and George Judson, in the dark of night, occasionally could hear people behaving as pirates as they crossed the stream in john boats. They dock up on the bank of their father's chicken farm.They heard chatting between them and other noises in the distance. The boys looked out their window to see about the noises. It was thieves loading the boats with chickens that they were stealing from their father.They also could see the silhouettes of their boats sometimes. That was when the moon was just right and full. Then they heard their father fire a rifle at that silhouette.Their father found several of the sunken boats the morning after they tried to steal his chickens. He also retrieved some of the birds that the would be pirates were forced to leave behind in the sunken boat.They spent much of the time between harvest and spring planting mostly fishing or hunting. He also repaired and then resold the john boats that he sunk at the time of the harvest.Years later, Jim Judson, was a farmer with out faith and he was getting hungry enough to stop and eat a meal at the diner. Jim ate most of his meals there. The diner owner, Calvin, was a black man. He was his brother George's friend all through school and middle aged in Village, Virginia.It was the beginning of hunting season for him even though it was not yet legal. Besides, it was his last chance to shoot birds that were soon flying south.He thought about the birds all week, those other than chickens. As he worked at growing chickens, he also looked up in trees for birds. He saw a bird that he wanted in the trees. So he kept his eyes on it. He picked up his rifle and took aim at it while outside the first chicken house from his home.Then an armed stranger came out of the trees rushing toward him. The man held his rifle on him. Then he yelled. "Judson, I'm the game-warden. You put that gun down.""You think you're going to steal my birds at gun point!""Your birds. You know better than to say that. It's out of season and you're poaching. You're also doing it without this year's hunting license.""It's my property!"Jim Judson heard enough from this man he thought of as a trespasser. He still held his rifle. He just changed his aim pointing it at him. The stranger got rattled not expecting a gun fight with him. Then he yelled at him. "Judson, what are you doing?""Get off my farm! Get out of here now, scamp! You should be chasing those squatters out of the woods across the stream.""I'm concerned with the animals and not people in the woods.""Well, your useless for not chasing them!""What? You're not the law. So put down that rifle."Judson raised his rifle like he was taking aim at him. The game-warden froze there for a moment saying to him. "Don't you dare take aim at me!" and put his rifle down."You'll be jailed for trespassing!"Leo heard the gunshot from the back yard of his house. He had an idea where it happened. He knew that Jim Judson never hesitated to fire on game and trespassers. He took a guess that he took a shot at something or someone.He also called the sheriff about what he heard from his house. A deputy told his that someone called in the shooting and he said nothing more than that.Judson, the game-warden and Leo all heard the sirens of the emergency vehicles in the distance. Leo went outside and had no sure idea where they were going. Then Jim Judson was arrested for taking an illegal shot.Calvin visited him in jail while was bailing out of there. "How come you can't give up a watermelon to thieves if it keeps you out of this place?""My father and I had a strained relationship until he passed away decades ago. I'm not sure if he died angry either.""I suppose he finally forgave you," Jim was never sure of that.The judge, Jim's late father's friend, threw the shooting case against him out of court, freeing him. Jim was without faith until he was saved from death by a teen-aged boy.