Without Felder and some of the other men, I had to find a few French mechanics who could work for me. Paul knew them all. They were older men whom the French had not drafted into the army. But there was one good thing about them. They knew their work and I found out that they had spent their live...
The faint sounds of the orchestra playing in the grand ballroom downstairs floated in through the open windows on the warm June night wind. He sat up in bed, grunting involuntarily as a sudden sharp pain stabbed through his temples. “Jesus!” he exclaimed, almost aloud to himself. “It can’t be the...
It was one of those tropical rains that sometimes fall in Florida: straight down out of a dark overcast sky, driven by no wind, and not intruding inside the screens. It was cold, though, and Number One sat wrapped in a knit shawl hung around his shoulders by his nurse. “Which king was it?” he ask...
"Where were you last night?"He paused in the act of buttering a roll. "Out.""With Sue Ann." She threw a newspaper down on the table in front of him. "Your picture is on the front page."Dax looked down at it, then back at her. "Those paparazzi never really take good pictures, do they?""You didn't ...
You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's. He's more particular.— Robert Frost No man is a hero to his valet. — Madame Comuel Or to his father.— Jonas Cord PROLOGUE PEOPLE HAVE RECURRING DREAMS. Jonas cord had them. Memories are often distressing. Dreams, bri...
It was a condition of his commutation that he could not try to recover the presidency of the Teamsters. He expected Nixon to cancel the ban in time. Even after Nixon resigned, Jimmy confidently expected President Ford would remove the condition. In the meantime, he drew a pension from the union o...
CHOP SUEY The same old Chinese ushered us to our seats and handed us a tired fly-dirtied menu. Her eyes were bright and shining. “You remembered.” I smiled at her. Her hand reached across the table toward me. I clasped it and turned it palm upward. “There’s a tall dark man about to come into your...
I looked over at Buzz, sitting next to me in the cockpit. "We're almost home." His pug-nosed face crinkled in a smile. He looked at his watch. "I think we got us a new record, too." "The hell with the record," I said. "All I want is that mail contract." He nodded. "We’ll get it now for sure." He ...