Robert Kennedy Constitution Tower, New Orleans, Louisiana Detective Isabelle Laprise parked, stifling a yawn. She had caught the call near the end of her shift and had volunteered to take it. Why go home to an empty apartment? Four dead, gangland style shootout. It had at least sounded in...
Her head pounded with a throbbing, pulsing pain that radiated from her face all the way to the back of her head. The sound of rushing blood filled her ears. And the sound of a truck changing gears. She opened her eyes slightly, then blinked several times, trying to moisten them, the dry air havin...
Robert Kennedy Outside Hamashkoraib, Sudan Gunfire in the distance had Dawson pausing outside of the van. He slowly turned, his trained ear trying to determine the direction. He stopped then raised his phone, zooming in, slowly scanning the landscape toward the airport. The abandoned station...
Robert Kennedy Tuk’s Village, Northern Amazon, Venezuela Kinti held Tuk’s hand, trying to comfort the poor man as he surveyed the sight in front of them. His village had been levelled, every building, every structure, destroyed, shredded by some type of beast, the logs barely recognizable. T...
Robert Kennedy Avenue Hoche, Paris, France Across from the Embassy of Saudi Arabia Dawson peered through his binoculars, the night vision mode giving the entire area a hazy green glow. The front of the embassy was surrounded by French police along with half a dozen camera crews though there ...
Robert Kennedy Off the coast of Guinea Koroma lifted the wide-brimmed hat covering his face while he lay down in his cabin, the gentle sway of the ship on the waves and the constant drone of the engines about as peaceful an experience as he could recall having in a long time. The knock was rep...
Robert Kennedy North of Air Force One Crash Site, Mozambique Red peered through his night vision goggles, the first of the rebel force appearing through the trees. They had managed to hoof it ahead of the group and were now spread out over one hundred yards on the enemy’s right flank. It was...
Robert Kennedy Northbound E80, Italy “Goodbye, Dad, you take it easy.” “Your mother isn’t letting me lift a finger, so there’s no worry about that. I feel fine, just weak, but they said that’s normal. Don’t worry about me, just take care of yourself and that wife of yours.” “You know I will....
Robert Kennedy wrote his first story when he was five.Everyone in it died.Things didn't get much better from there. After horrifying his teachers in creative writing classes he took an extended hiatus, returning to writing on a whim, haunted by the image of a woman standing in tall grass, the bla...
Robert Kennedy Exiting the Karakorum Pass, Mongol Empire April 13th, 1275 AD “At last!” It was his master’s cry of joy that snapped Giuseppe from his reverie. He looked up at the sight before him and smiled, exchanging grins with all those around him in the Polo cara...
Robert Kennedy Geneva Cointrin Airport, Geneva, Switzerland Dawson, dressed in a black suit and tie, stood beside the coffin, his head bowed in remembrance. Behind him Red did the same, his hand resting on the coffin of his friend, the somber look of Dawson mirrored. The rest of the team wer...
The footage you are about to see, taken only minutes ago, is graphic. I highly recommend our more sensitive and younger viewers not watch.” Tim took a breath. Are you kidding me? This stuff is NC-17. We shouldn’t even be airing it! He motioned with his hand, out of sight of the camera, for the fo...
Robert Kennedy Hotel Astor Saint Honore, Paris, France Acton looked up from his laptop as Reading entered from one of the suite’s two bedrooms, freshly showered. He motioned toward Acton’s computer. “Any news?” Acton nodded. “I’ve got the first chunk of research from Mai.” “Let me guess, ...
Robert Kennedy 42 Guro District Seoul, Republic of Korea “All there?” Atlas nodded, having just returned from inspecting the gear delivered by chopper from Osan Air Base. “We’re ready to start a war.” Dawson grinned. “Good. I want to be ready for anything. If we get a lead, we’re not waiting fo...
Robert Kennedy Lucius Valerius Corvus Residence, Pompeii, Roman Empire July 22, 64 AD Flavus leaned back on the comfortable cushions, his legs stretched out to his side, a bowl of grapes and a glass of wine within reach as slaves waved large fans, taking the edge off the heat. Across from...
He gazed at the history the room contained, and smiled. His mind wandered back to the day they were forced to evacuate, the physical scars on the building having been repaired, but the mental ones—those would take longer. So many friends lost. It had been a brutal attack, but they had survived. N...
Robert Kennedy Tay Ho District, Hanoi, Vietnam Phong was in a good mood. The best he could remember in a long time. A weight had been lifted off his shoulders that he had forgotten was there, an albatross that had tied him to an impossible promise made by a grieving, angry teenager forty yea...
Robert Kennedy Zhongguancun E Plaza, Beijing, China Kane squatted near an alleyway, yanking a piece of meat off a skewer that he seriously doubted was chicken. But he didn’t care. It was delicious, and he was hungry. His luggage had been forwarded to his hotel, all booked under one of his al...