Kari: The Cosmic Warrior

By Larry Walker

This is a story about a young Czech gold medalwinning teen gymnast along with her circus trapezeartist parents. Kari and her parents reside in a tiny apartment until one day they are visited by Senior Mercado, the owner of Circus Mercado of Mexico who offers a lot of money to buy their contract. They explained to Senior Mercado the situation of Karis celebrity status. Senior Mercado had a plan to utilize a large sea trunk which he had small holes drilled into for air so that Kari, once hidden inside, would be safely loaded aboard the circus ship. Once back in Mexico, Karis parents were visited one day by members of the Mexican drug cartel. They were forced to take a package loaded with drugs to mail back to their homeland along with an envelope of money for payment.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Trafford Publishing
• Release date: Oct 8, 2014
• ISBN: 9781490748283

Larry Walker

I sometimes write under the shortened version of my name, which is Larry Walker, by using L. D. Walker. I started to get interested in reading at a very young age and soon started reading everything in the house. Mom’s movie magazines and Dad’s outdoor magazines, and also Life and TV guides for Reader’s Digest. I first started to write in the summer of 1964 while I was a member of the Marine Corps. After being published in my hometown newspaper on a weekly basis, I discovered that I love to write. But I spent a number of years doing different jobs, putting off my real love until fate intervened with a stroke of good luck, which sidelined me and enabled me to write every day.

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Acknowledgements

I would like very much to thank those who were a part of my writing this book.

First of all, I have to give a ton of thanks and appreciation to Ms. Joan Mathis, English teacher supreme who gave me moral support, in addition to longtime friends Wade White and his wife and daughters, all my many friends at the Cowboy Church of Paris, Texas, my neighbors back in Paris, Texas, and Rene Walker.

To Junior and his wife—in all of my years, I have never had better or nicer neighbors; my aunt Kathy and her family; my two sons—Buckshot and his son Gage, JT and his two sons—Ethan and Kryan; daughter Julie; their mom, Amy; Jerry and Judy Sparks; longtime friend Joanie, who also who gave me some great input while doing the preliminary story editing for me; and Frank and Liz Scott. This book is in memory of my longtime friend and Joanie’s late husband, John Vetcher.

Over in Prague, Czechoslovakia, a young girl named Kari Koszlosovic comes home to her parents’ tiny two-room state-furnished apartment. She is worn out after an intense gymnastic workout. Kari had won a gold medal for gymnastics in the last Olympics, and it is this glory that has kept both her and her homeland in the public eye.

So Kari was pushed hard. Every morning before school, Kari had an intense one-hour workout, and immediately after her classes, Kari was ordered to report to the state-sponsored gymnastic school for at least four more hours of intense workouts. By the time the barely fourteen-year-old Kari got home from practice, it was all she could do to walk up the stairs to her apartment that had been given to her family.

Her coach explained that this was because of her gymnastics skills, and if she was not willing to make the sacrifices, he knew another family that was willing to take her place. No! she exclaims. "I will work harder