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  JAKE BURBANK -MYSTERY THRILLER SERIES   A PINT OF PROBLEMS A FIFTH OF TROUBLE A SHOT OF REVENGE A DOUBLE SHOT OF REVENGE DEATH BY A .45 Population: Minus Me Soul with a Capital S What a Way to Die It’s Not the Heat Nothing from Nothing             THE JACK HOUSE SERIES   LOST WAGES HOUSE RULES ALL IN       The Shadowboxer Files   Asset Render Operative Sideways Chokepoint Decreed In The Dark True Nature False Flag Burn Bag Nominee Disavowed Credible Threat       Tin Trooper – a Brill Winger story Nazi Nukes - a Brill Winger story   Webb of Lies – An action thriller         INVASION MARS Series     Hell To Pay Give Them Hell Hell of a Way to Die Going Through Hell       Hell is a Place Called Home         TEMPORARY MERC SERIES   Temporary Merc Reprobate Rogue Ganymeade Europa Io Ceres         Sci-Fi Comedy   All Jac

    I felt his hand before it clamped over my mouth. Something about sleeping on the ground always kept me in that lucid phase of a waking dream, more snooze than rem. It was a change in the heat near my skin, or maybe the faded smell of wood smoke and a thousand nights in a flannel nylon sack. Either way my eyes popped open before he covered my mouth. A universal sign of stay quiet. I couldn’t see anything inside the tent, but the faint glow of the campfire embers outside made the front wall of the dome glow. Shapes were impossible to define, but there were shadows, pieces of space darker than the surroundings. That’s how I knew Matos crouched over me, facing the opening. I tapped his wrist so he took his hand off my mouth and sat up to stare with him. We watched in silence, frozen as we listened. Waited. The snap of the charred wood still cracking and smoking was the only thing I heard, but the hair on the back of my neck stiffened. It wasn’t hearing so much

  OLD MAGIC - a modern urban fantasy western mystery thriller Chapter “This world is built for domesticated men,” I tried not to slur. I think I might have even succeeded for a bit. Except the old bear couldn’t be fooled. Not by many, and certainly not by me. We had known each other for too   long for me to pull any sort of wool over his obsidian eyes. I watched the firelight flicker in their dark depths as he stared past the flames and into the black night. He had a ring of gold around the iris, caused by the fire or the magic inside him and I wondered for a moment if he was searching. Using that magic to seek out what was in the dark and hidden from us. “Your world is,” he finally said and sipped on the warm whisky toddy we had boiled next to the same fire that kept the night away from us. “Yours too.” His head might have moved a fragment of an inch. “Once it was not, but it is now.” “I don’t know,” I told him and I didn’t, not for sure. “I think the way we’re g

  JAKE BURBANK -MYSTERY THRILLER SERIES   A PINT OF PROBLEMS A FIFTH OF TROUBLE A SHOT OF REVENGE A DOUBLE SHOT OF REVENGE DEATH BY A .45 Population: Minus Me Soul with a Capital S What a Way to Die It’s Not the Heat Nothing from Nothing             THE JACK HOUSE SERIES   LOST WAGES HOUSE RULES ALL IN       The Shadowboxer Files   Asset Render Operative Sideways Chokepoint Decreed In The Dark True Nature False Flag Burn Bag Nominee Disavowed Credible Threat       Tin Trooper – a Brill Winger story Nazi Nukes - a Brill Winger story   Webb of Lies – An action thriller         INVASION MARS Series     Hell To Pay Give Them Hell Hell of a Way to Die Going Through Hell       Hell is a Place Called Home         TEMPORARY MERC SERIES   Temporary Merc Reprobate Rogue Ganymeade Europa Io Ceres         Sci-Fi Comedy   All Jac