"Collateral Damage"

by Roger E. Craig

Cover art work by Kevin Linsea, Lansing Michigan

Copyright ©2002
ISBN: 0-87714-765-5 eBook edition
ISBN: 0-87714-204-1 PB edition

All rights reserved by Denlinger's Publishers, including the right to reproduce this electronic book, or portions thereof, in any form, except for the inclusion of brief quotations in a review.

This is a work of fiction. All characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental.

DEDICATION

To Marlene, my "beautiful Magda."

Acknowledgments

Thanks to the people who helped so much. Dennis O'Leary, John and Diane Delo and all my kids except one. You'll know who you are when my Will is read.

THE AUTHOR

When he isn't windsurfing or scuba-diving, Roger Craig is a trial lawyer. He writes his own appellate briefs, he explains, to sharpen his skills as a fiction writer.

Two time Academic All-American in football, factory worker, musician, private detective, State Senator, special counsel to the House Judiciary Committee during the Nixon-Ford transition and head of the City of Detroit's law department, Craig brings a wealth of personal experience to his writing.

His previous publications include scholarly works, short fiction and The Vetowich Wall, a novel nominated for the prestigious Frankfort International eBook Award. .

Craig and his wife live in Naples, Florida, dividing their time between a Gulf Shore condominium and the live-aboard trawler, Frayed Knot.

"Roger Craig is a natural story teller." —Naples Daily News

"Don't even start this book if you have to do something else before you finish it, because you won't be able to put it down. —You'll be late for work and lose your job. —You'll miss your scheduled surgery and your appendix will burst. —This book is a spell binder." —Lori Wright, Free Lance Journalist, Book Reviewer & Critic

THE BOOK

Roger Craig's second novel brings together a quartet of entertainers and pits them against an organization intent on the perfection of the human species-regardless of the cost in human lives.

Eric Hightower is a magician and a lawyer who at one time or another drowns both careers in alcohol.

Ellen, his wife, is the "Beautiful Magda" on stage with him. Off stage she is the business manager for the act and Eric's personal Carrie Nation. Insuring Eric's sobriety is her mission statement.

Jack Bellow, professional wrestler and sometimes actor, turns the domestic duet into a trio when he helps Eric and Ellen fend off rowdies who invade the stage at a State Fair.

The three become four when Jack discovers Deanna, a trapeze artist, at Circus-Circus.

When Jack is charged with murdering the man who assaulted Deanna, Eric brings his magic to the courtroom.

Then the four, at the top of their game, are living the good life when Eric accidentally learns that a secret society of the world's movers and shakers was responsible for the Lockerbie crash.

The four cannot be left alive. Foxes hunted by hounds, they run and hide. Then they fight back, by using their unique skills.

There are a series of battles. Then Armageddon.

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