This is a domestic terrorist, Tom Clancy or Robert Patterson-style story. I started writing this story in July 2001, and I stopped on 9/11, and it's been languishing in my Zombie file ever since. I don't know if I'll ever get back to it. but I wanted to share it with you,
In a world where magic and industry collide, a reborn man finds a mysterious Black Stone glowing with forbidden golden light. Armed with modern knowledge, he turns coins into weapons, laundromats into empires, and federal agents into pawns. He doesn’t want to rule the world. He wants the world to need him. The only sin is playing small.
Craig Smalls - an annoying, unimportant, useless piece of dog shit on the bottom of your shoe. But even smalltime crims deserve a defence, especially with a mother like he had.
The Cairo, Egypt, of the 1920s is a wide-open city for the varied sexual preferences of men seeking men or boys. Ali Selim Pasha is a notorious despoiler of older boys, and when fourteen-year-old handsome blond American fortune heir David Ames arrives to visit King Tut's tomb, Ali is only one of several men anxious and prepared to debauch him. Ali is the first one to snatch and imprison him, though, and to weave an atmosphere of want around the boy to prepare him for his first time.
This is the story of John Pitzer and Nancy Griffin as they go through life as young adults in a society which has reverted to an Old West culture as far as guns are concerned. They form a bodyguard service while still in high school and continue to live as bodyguards after they graduate. Their major activity turns into protecting against kidnappings, but they have many other adventures, too. 17 chapters.