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Article 15
by M.T. Bass
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GENRE: Mystery
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BLURB:
“She was one in a million…and the day I met her I should have
bought a lottery ticket instead.”
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Griffith
Crowe, the "fixer" for a Chicago law firm, falls for his current
assignment, Helena Nicholson, the beautiful heir of a Tech Sector venture
capitalist who perished in a helicopter crash leaving her half a billion
dollars, a Learjet 31, and unsavory suspicions about her father's death. As he
investigates, the ex-Navy SEAL crosses swords with Helena’s step-brother, the
Pentagon’s Highlands Forum, and an All-Star bad guy somebody has hired to stop
him. When Griff finds himself on the wrong side of an arrest warrant he
wonders: Is he a player or being played?
Lawyers and Lovers and Guns…Oh, my!
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EXCERPT TWO:
The
conference room was small—smaller, at least by “Big Firm” standards, than the
huge public conference room up front used to intimidate clients, adversaries,
witnesses, and opposing counsel by swallowing them up whole like Jonahs lost in
the belly of a legal whale. Tucked away in a back corner among the partner
offices, it was extremely well appointed, though darkly so, in oak furniture
and paneling. The quiet confines served as a war room of sorts, a place where
grand strategies and hair-brained schemes were incubated, hatched and sometimes
celebrated, sometimes autopsied. He knew because Griffith Crowe was sometimes part
of them.
There
were no windows, which was fine with him. He didn’t need to be seen, and,
besides, he was just there to get paid and be quickly on his way. Even in the
dim, indirect lighting, he found a shadow where he sat and sipped coffee from a
massive, dark mug with Stein, Baylor & Stein gilded on the side, patiently
waiting for Lance Baylor to come back with his check.
Lance
was a master of entering and exiting rooms. So, when he burst into the room
like a starlight artillery shell, wearing his white phosphorous rain-maker
smile, followed by two junior associates and a young, very attractive Asian
waitress pushing a serving cart with no doubt a sumptuous lunch, he knew his
escape would be neither clean nor quick.
“Miss
me?” teased Lance, baring his canines. “I couldn’t send you back to…to…where
was it you were you off to, Griff?”
“Home.”
“Right,
send you home hungry after a job well done. Pull up a chair, and we’ll feast
before you depart.”
Lance
naturally took the head of the table with Griff to his right. The two junior
associates, veritable bookends with their young, already balding pates, red
ties, pin-striped suits, expanding waistlines, and leather portfolios, sat on
the opposite side of the table.
They
all politely smiled at one another as the waitress set their places and served
what turned out to be Beef Wellington. After pouring drinks—Cabernet for Lance,
iced teas for the empty bookends and black coffee for Griff—she quietly left
them and closed the door.
Like
an orchestra conductor, with cutlery for a baton, Lance silently cued the
quartet to begin eating.
Lance
smiled broadly and looked to his right. “Good. No?”
“Excellent.
My compliments to Cookie.”
“You
know, our friend here was busy freeing Iraq before there actually was an Operation
Iraqi Freedom,” Lance said, turning to the two associate attorneys, who frowned
at the apparent contradiction. As if to explain, he continued, “Special Forces,
of course. What was it you did there in the desert?”
Griff
watched Lance watch himself surgically cut his Wellington.
“Nothing
really so special,” Griff said, turning his attention to his own lunch plate.
“I
suspect much the same sort of things as you may have done here to get your name
on the marquee. You know, all’s fair in love and war.”
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GUEST POST:
My One of a Kind Writing Desk:
I
could never just sit…and sit and sit. So when stuck in the office, I always
found a way to work standing up by putting some item of office furniture to use
in a manner for which it was never intended. I decided, finally, to build
myself a stand-up desk. First, a little back story.
Lola
and I bought the Herald Building in the downtown Entertainment District of
Lorain, Ohio, which was built in 1901 to house one of the town's two
newspapers.
Downstairs
will be her gallery and boutique. The
front editorial offices upstairs will be my future novelizing & music
making lair. Behind the windows on the left will be my office. On the right
will be my library.
The
former owner left a pile of lumber from his roof fixings, to which I added
substantially with unwanted interior wall framing we've been tearing out as we
renovate.
I
decided to repurpose the turn-of-the-last-century old-growth lumber into items
needed around my office and Lola's gallery downstairs, one of which would be my
long coveted stand-up desk.
It is
worthy to note that this lumber is from so long ago that the 2 x 4s were
actually two inches by four inches.
Wainscoting
from the building was used for the desktop.
The
top was sanded, but the rest of the wood was left rough and just cleaned up
with a wire brush.
The
desktop was given seven coats of varnish with sanding & steel wool
smoothing in between. The frame got five coats.
A
black iron gas line from the building was used for the footrest and it's ready
for action.
“I’m
all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let’s
start with typewriters.”
~ Frank
Lloyd Wright
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AUTHOR BIO:
M.T. Bass is a
scribbler of fiction who holds fast to the notion that while victors may get to
write history, novelists get to write/right reality. He lives, writes, flies
and makes music in Mudcat Falls, USA.
Born
in Athens, Ohio, M.T. Bass grew up in St. Louis, Missouri. He graduated from
Ohio Wesleyan University, majoring in English and Philosophy, then worked in
the private sector (where they expect “results”) mainly in the Aerospace &
Defense manufacturing market. During those years, Bass continued to write
fiction. He is the author of eight novels: My Brother’s Keeper, Crossroads, In
the Black, Somethin’ for Nothin’, Murder by Munchausen, The Darknet (Murder by
Munchausen Mystery #2), The Invisible Mind (Murder by Munchausen Mystery #3)
and Article 15. His writing spans various genres, including Mystery, Adventure,
Romance, Black Comedy and TechnoThrillers. A Commercial Pilot and Certified
Flight Instructor, airplanes and pilots are featured in many of his stories.
Bass currently lives on the shores of Lake Erie near Lorain, Ohio.
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M.T. ~ Good morning! Welcome back! It is so great to have you here again! Congrats on your new book and good luck on the book tour! :)
ReplyDeleteThanks for hosting!
ReplyDeleteSounds like a book I will enjoy reading.
ReplyDeleteHappy Friday - thanks for sharing the great post!
ReplyDeleteHappy Friday! Do you have any specific reading or writing plans for the weekend?
ReplyDeleteI love the story behind your desk
ReplyDeleteGreat cover.
ReplyDeleteGorgeous desk. Thank you for sharing the backstory.
ReplyDeleteI would love to read your book.
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