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Blackwell's Ghost Part Two: Ringgold's Kid Grows Up
The Prequel to this book is Ringgold's Kid. It covers the war years prior to Alfred York's retirement and tells about the schoolboy years of Luke, the Ringgold Kid. Sergeant Alfred York is returning from the war back to the States on full disability when he catches the stewardess assigned to this military chartered flight stealing from his men. The situation escalates to the point that York must take over the passenger plane. At gunpoint he orders the pilot to land it at a crop-duster dirt field outside Lakehurst, New Jersey. The only sign of life is a lonely old crop-duster who cooperates with Sarge. He points to a rusty old structure that rears up in the air, "That's the mooring mast where the Zeppelin Hindenburg caught fire and burned to the ground. Made a lot of news at the time. Ain't been much going on since then."
"Give me a ride to Atlantic City and I'll spot you a meal and a few drinks," York said as the MPs escorted his lads plus the air crew off to an army bus. The MPs would be saddled with dealing with this 'Insiders scam' to defraud these bone-weary veterans of their pay and valuables. "Just let me retrieve my duffel."
Nobody else had seen the cash inside the secret compartment so he fetched it out without any witnesses. That meant he didn't have to split it with anybody else. At Atlantic City Sergeant York is about to get into all sorts of trouble. It turns out there is no worse hive of skullduggery than the city that spawned the board game of Monopoly. So, if you like sexy babes and naughty sexbots along with lots of double-crossing and back stabbing why fork over your moolah and enjoy. Oh, and Sarge rents a room in an old dowager Victorian hotel. The hotel manager informs him, "State law says I gotta reveal that a murder occurred in your room. It belonged to Dr. John Blackwell." All Sarge replied was, "I'll take it."
This is not a detective novel nor a ghost story but good old science fiction. Why? Why because Sergeant York is a Special Forces cyborg warrior… one of the original members of the famed 350th Ranger Battalion, a unit with far more Medal of Honor recipients than any other comparable outfit. Of course, nearly all these medals got awarded posthumously. Read on and learn a few inside facts that your daddy never told you about.
It's a good thing that America still recruits some of the finest soldiers in the world who believe in duty, honor, country and doing the right thing because we citizens who bother to vote sure as hell don't elect politicians with any of those virtues. You are fixing to meet a few dozens of the worst scum and villainy ever assembled in one place, Washington DC. It makes Atlantic City seem like a Sunday School class.
"Give me a ride to Atlantic City and I'll spot you a meal and a few drinks," York said as the MPs escorted his lads plus the air crew off to an army bus. The MPs would be saddled with dealing with this 'Insiders scam' to defraud these bone-weary veterans of their pay and valuables. "Just let me retrieve my duffel."
Nobody else had seen the cash inside the secret compartment so he fetched it out without any witnesses. That meant he didn't have to split it with anybody else. At Atlantic City Sergeant York is about to get into all sorts of trouble. It turns out there is no worse hive of skullduggery than the city that spawned the board game of Monopoly. So, if you like sexy babes and naughty sexbots along with lots of double-crossing and back stabbing why fork over your moolah and enjoy. Oh, and Sarge rents a room in an old dowager Victorian hotel. The hotel manager informs him, "State law says I gotta reveal that a murder occurred in your room. It belonged to Dr. John Blackwell." All Sarge replied was, "I'll take it."
This is not a detective novel nor a ghost story but good old science fiction. Why? Why because Sergeant York is a Special Forces cyborg warrior… one of the original members of the famed 350th Ranger Battalion, a unit with far more Medal of Honor recipients than any other comparable outfit. Of course, nearly all these medals got awarded posthumously. Read on and learn a few inside facts that your daddy never told you about.
It's a good thing that America still recruits some of the finest soldiers in the world who believe in duty, honor, country and doing the right thing because we citizens who bother to vote sure as hell don't elect politicians with any of those virtues. You are fixing to meet a few dozens of the worst scum and villainy ever assembled in one place, Washington DC. It makes Atlantic City seem like a Sunday School class.
168 pages, Paperback
Published May 10, 2018
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