WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) CI - The Pope and The Dancer - V1

by Lou Patrick

CI An OverviewMichael Michel Dansereaux, Caroline Dansereaux, and me, Nicholas Archer Pontiff We’ve been friends for a long time – a long, long time. In fact, each of us has died at least onceAfter separate careers, we now work with each other in a rather unusual An investigative agency – mostly pro bono because I’ve got a lot of money – with very strong ties to the New Orleans Vodou community.Before my final flight, I was a Marine Corps pilot. My friends call me Nick, and rumor has it that my street name is ‘The Pope’ because of my last name and tendency to dress in either solid black or solid white. “TwoMike’ and his younger sister Caroline are my two best friends in the world. TwoMike is ex-Air Force special operations whose own final mission left him with bad knees. His knees, however, didn’t stop him from becoming a tenacious attorney. And Caroline is an ex-FBI anti-terrorist expert who resigned after her husband – Also an FBI agent – was killed in the line of duty. Caroline is petite, slender, and looks good in a little black dress and pearls, but she’s a pretty tough cookie. The combination has earned her a street name as ‘The Dancer’.The fourth member of our team, if you will, is Seramina Jamelle. Although Seramina has been with us since we were children, she has remained remarkably youthful in appearance. How, you ask? Seramina, it turned out, was, and is, a Vodou Mam’bo, or priestess – And a powerful one at that.As the three of us grew older and ventured into careers that were potentially dangerous, Seramina became more concerned about our safety. So much so, that she called in a number of favors from several members of the Vodou hierarchy, who prepared charms and spells to protect us from harm.Luckily, they A DescriptionInjuries force long-time friends Nick Pontiff and TwoMike Dansereaux to leave the military and look for new careers.TwoMike becomes an attorney and Nick tries police work, but neither is satisfied with his choice – After being members of a covert operations team, they find civilian life a bit boring and somehow less satisfying. Meanwhile, TwoMike’s sister Caroline resigns from the FBI after her husband is killed in a shoot-out and returns home to Pensacola.When TwoMike’s dog dies after eating a mysterious substance, the two friends begin an investigation that eventually brings them into conflict with a decades-old European art forgery ring led by the legendary Galahad. Caroline eventually joins the team after their investigation widens and becomes more and more dangerous. As the team follows its leads, their findings amaze and confound important art museums and private collectors all over the world, all the while putting the art ring’s now considerable network of support businesses at the risk of discovery. Faced with the loss of millions of dollars and the unraveling of their ingenious plan to influence American politics, Galahad and his henchmen decide to get the team off their trail --permanently.

416 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 27, 2010