A straight line is not always the shortest distance between two points. Ed Lazenby knows that sometimes you have to aim at where your target's going to be rather than where it is at the moment. That was the last thing on his mind, though, when a neighbor he'd never spoken to before asked him to find her missing grandson. He was tired of people thinking he was a hero, just because he and his best bud, Ernesto Cardoza, had rescued their friend Violet Wertheim from kidnappers. But, he was also bored, so when Abigail Crumley came along with her request, he said yes. Ernesto, of course, went along for the ride-and, what a ride it turned out to be.…mehr
A straight line is not always the shortest distance between two points. Ed Lazenby knows that sometimes you have to aim at where your target's going to be rather than where it is at the moment. That was the last thing on his mind, though, when a neighbor he'd never spoken to before asked him to find her missing grandson. He was tired of people thinking he was a hero, just because he and his best bud, Ernesto Cardoza, had rescued their friend Violet Wertheim from kidnappers. But, he was also bored, so when Abigail Crumley came along with her request, he said yes. Ernesto, of course, went along for the ride-and, what a ride it turned out to be.
Charles Ray has been writing fiction since his teens. A native of Texas, he left home and joined the U.S. Army when he was 17. After 20 years in uniform, he joined the U.S. Foreign Service, serving as an American diplomat in Africa and Asia until his retirement in 2012. He now lives in Maryland where he is a fulltime writer/photographer. Ray has worked as a newspaper and magazine journalist and has written more than 50 works of fiction and nonfiction, including a popular series about the famed Buffalo Soldiers of the Ninth U.S. Cavalry in the period after the Civil War. He has been a book reviewer for various print publications since the 1970s and does regular book reviews on his writer's blog, http: //charlieray45.wordpress.com (Charles Ray's Ramblings). He currently works as a part time lecturer for Johns Hopkins University's Osher Lifelong Learning Institute and runs a workshop in professional writing for Rangel Scholars at Howard University
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