I'll be in Dallas November 1-3 with my new book, BAYOU CITY BURNING, for Bouchercon at the Hyatt Regency. I hope to see y'all there! …
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Chapter 2
I was resting my dogs on a military footlocker, perusing a Flash comic book, and listening to B.D. squawk about the heat. I had a side conversation going with Mel about whether I’d rather be the Green Lantern or Flash, though I didn’t much care about being either one of them. What I really coveted was Wonder Woman’s bracelets and Lasso of Truth. But when you’re pinching your read- ing material from your brother’s strictly forbidden comic book stash, you can’t afford to be choosy. “I wish you’d …
Chapter 1
It was there, and then it wasn’t: a grainy, pockmarked triangle slashed by a dark shadow. First the edges blurred into an impres sionist dream of earth tones and light, then the cut of a thin shadow skimmed across the surface, and then—darkness. Nothing to see, no matter how I strained my eyes. Static, like a windstorm against a microphone, accented by highpitched beeps. A calm male voice: “Contact light. Okay, engine stop.” Then another voice, a familiar twang, Texan: “We copy you down, …
Prologue
It was there, and then it wasn’t: a grainy, pockmarked triangle slashed by a dark shadow. First the edges blurred into an impressionist dream of earth tones and light, then the cut of a thin shadow skimmed across the surface, and then—darkness. Nothing to see, no matter how I strained my eyes. Static, like a windstorm against a microphone, accented by high-pitched beeps. A calm male voice: “Contact light. Okay, engine stop.” Then another voice, a familiar twang, Texan: “We copy you down, …
Coming This Summer: BAYOU CITY BURNING
Houston, 1961 Texas’ slickest politician loses his presidential bid to a good-looking naval hero from Massachusetts. President Kennedy wants to put a man on the moon, and the Freedom Riders are raising morale for local civil rights activists. Sleepy backwater Houston finds itself short on air conditioning just when things are heating up. In a seedy downtown office, a well-dressed out-of-towner hires P.I. Harry Lark to tail two D.C. visitors looking to build NASA a space center. …