Henry, Black Lightning and Murphy’S Law

By Christopher A. Salvo

This adventure continues the episodes of Henry Wilson Worthington in
the book "Henry, Black Lightning and the Rubber Band" (may be ordered
on Amazon or direct from the Author with Autograph in form requested).
It involves the United States' Super Secret Agency, the Department of
Extraordinary and Super natural Events, known as "DESE" and takes place
in Greenwich, CT, San Francisco, Washington, DC and deals with Fort Knox
gold theft.
The previous adventures dealt with evil witches, demons, black magic,
voodoo and more. This earlier assignment ended in success. The continuation
of this story starts where the last escapade ended and starts soon after Henry
returns home. It is as though 17 year old Henry really has no time to rest
before this next episode begins with an extraordinary surprise message from
Walter Murphy and the mystery follows.



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• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Mar 6, 2013
• ISBN: 9781479791729

Christopher A. Salvo

Christopher A. Salvo grew up in Mamaroneck and Purchase, New York and graduated from White Plains, N.Y. High School, attended the University of Michigan and the Columbia University School of Dental and Oral Surgery on a competitive New York State Regents Scholarship. He and his wife, Cyndy, son Philip, and daughter Valerie live in Connecticut. His additional four children are married with son Frank in New Canaan, CT, Matthew in Rincon, PR, daughter Katharine in Chicago, IL and daughter Christina living in Minneapolis, MN. His son, Matthew is the model on the cover of this book. Christopher is an avid writer of magical, quasi-scientifi c fantasy fi ction and is expected to be quite prolifi c. His e-mail address is [e-mail]

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Copyright © 2013 by Christopher A. Salvo.

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to any actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Rev. date: 02/27/2013

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Contents

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

PROLOGUE

CHAPTER ONE THE RETURN

CHAPTER TWO HENRY AND SORCERER MURPHY

CHAPTER THREE SORCERER MURPHY

CHAPTER FOUR HENIGSONS’S REPORT

CHAPTER FIVE GREENWICH AVENUE STARBUCKS

CHAPTER SIX INDIGNATION

CHAPTER SEVEN INTERNATIONAL INTRIGUE

CHAPTER EIGHT BEHIND THE SCENE

CHAPTER NINE CAMERON SCHULTZ

CHAPTER TEN WARY TRUST

CHAPTER ELEVEN REUNION OF ALLIES

CHAPTER TWELVE GRAND ENTRANCE

CHAPTER THIRTEEN GROUP MEETING: WALTER DEPOSES AND SAYS

CHAPTER FOURTEEN CAMERON’S INTRIGUE

CHAPTER FIFTEEN HENRY THE DREAMER

CHAPTER SIXTEEN COUNTER INTELLIGENCE STUDIES

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN HENRY REACHES OUT AND TOUCHES SOMEONE

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN BACK AT GREENWICH AVENUE STARBUCKS

CHAPTER NINETEEN CAMERON RETURNS HOME

CHAPTER TWENTY PRESIDENTIAL MESSAGE

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE THOUGHTS, CONTEMPLATION AND EXPLORATION

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO BACK IN HIS LAIR

CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE HENRY’S DREAMS

CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR AWAKENING

CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE THE OTHER SIDE OF THE COIN

CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX KNOWING

CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN NOETICS AND CAMERON

CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT THE DEPARTMENT OF EXTRAORDINARY AND SUPERNATURAL EVENTS RECONVENES

CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE WALTER’S SECRETS

CHAPTER THIRTY SURVEILANCE

CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE X CONTINUED

CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO BACK AT DESE HEADQUARTERS

CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE CONCEIT WILL BETRAY YOU

CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR POLO AT CONYERS FARM

CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE SURPRISE, SURPRISE!

CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX CAMERON’S FATE

CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN CLARIFICATION

CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT CAMERON’S INTERROGATION

CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE SOLITITUDE AND SILENT CONTEMPLATION

CHAPTER FORTY RESOLUTION

CHAPTER FORTY-ONE MARY KENT

CHAPTER FORTY-TWO TUNING IN

CHAPTER FORTY-THREE PROPOSITION

CHAPTER FORTY-FOUR SLOW AND STEADY WINS THE RACE

CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE COGITO-LECTOR

CHAPTER FORTY-SIX THE STATE OF CLEAR

CHAPTER FORTY-SEVEN CITIZEN CAMERON

CHAPTER FORTY-EIGHT INTEGRATION AND THE NEXT ADVENTURE

EPILOGUE

ADDENDA F.Y.I.

DEDICATIONS

This second book in the series is dedicated to all who enjoy an escape from every day trials and tribulations. It provides an escape from reality while the reader unfolds the adventure, something like opening a gift. The reader’s problems are forgotten as the fantasy develops. The concepts in this book are fancifully based on science and it encourages the growth of imagination and invention.

This book is most especially dedicated to my brother, Frank (Frankie), whose untimely death occurred just before Christmas in 2011.

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This book is also dedicated to the memory of Ida K. Parker (1918-2012) who avidly read the first book and rhetorically asked where did you get all the imagination to create these adventures and creatures? Ida was truly a remarkable woman, a ladies fashion designer with exquisite taste who, at 94, was fully mentally alert until the last days.

They will both be greatly missed and always loved.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I am most grateful to Cyndy Salvo, my loving wife, Sally Tedesco, a very dear friend along with assistance from her husband Michael and my sons Philip and Matthew Salvo. Each has contributed to the creation of this book.

Cyndy and Sally are credited with manuscript editing and erudite criticism and corrections. Philip is credited both with editing and helping in the creation and composition of the cover.

Newlyweds Joy Miller Salvo, Matthew’s industrious and very intelligent wife, is credited with the photograph on the cover of this book. The photograph was taken by Joy in San Juan, PR. Matthew is the model subject in the photograph.

Joy and Matthew have developed a virtual fantasy entertainment, resort service in Puerto Rico where they have a residence. Their adventure begins with the development of their dream. All is portrayed at their dual websites:

barefootadventurespr.com and salvosurfboards.com. Joy is a certified Yoga instructor and Matthew is both a gifted and experienced surfing instructor and a custom surfboard shaper.

They will be living their dream and loving it. That is their Fantasy!

Cody Tedesco

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Friend of Mike and Sally Tedesco

And a Secret Agent Associate of

Mr. Xilx and Elizabeth Sam

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The title below precedes this current book and is part of a series with more to come! To really know what this is all about in logical sequence this book should be included for your reading pleasure. Notes are included in the following:

HENRY, BLACK LIGHTNING

and the

RUBBER BAND

Christopher A. Salvo

Henry, a high school 17-year-old uses his extraordinary abilities to help the United States preserve its secure gold vaults.

Christopher A. Salvo uses the newest of science fiction with mystery and fantasy in an unusual adventure involving international police work and the secret federal Department of Extraordinary Situations and Events abbreviated as DESE.

This book is a continuation of Henry, Black Lightning and the Rubber Band and continues some of the earlier characters but introduces Cameron Schultz, a magically gifted thief as well as being a confused, conflicted beneficent individual. The story centers on the mental treasures of Henry, and fellow DESE agents, some from Area 51 as well as aliens and mythical creatures.

Henry is mentally assaulted and suffers sleepless headaches and nights along with his mental telepathic associates. They all share in Henry’s discomfort. As a result, they all join him in solving the national mystery from Kentucky to Washington, DC, Greenwich, CT and San Francisco, CA.

Everyone will dive headlong into this imaginative story loaded with engaging characters.

PROLOGUE

This adventure continues the episodes of Henry Wilson Worthington in the book "Henry, Black Lightning and the Rubber Band". It centered about the United States’ super secret agency, the Department of Extraordinary and Super natural Events, known in short as DESE.

This agency continually investigates, as its name implies, events starting with the Area 51 extraterrestrial crash and its survivors. It continued to develop national protection against terroristic destruction by evil, malcontented witches and demonic allies. DESE’s star Federal Agent is Mary Kent, the director of the agency with exclusive and secret connections only to the President and Vice President of the United States.

The Area 51 incident introduced agent Jack Henigson, a scientist and secret agent who uncovered the extraterrestrials who changed their bodily form into Mr. Mrazy Xilx and the beautiful Elizabeth Sam. Both of these extra terrestrials became acclimated and stuck here on Earth because all of their communications and space vehicle was destroyed and beyond repair. Both became very special agents of DESE.

Henry, while a high school teenager, learned that he was endowed with extra special gifts and talents which border on the super human, extra sensory and near magical abilities.

Mary, on a vacation to Scandinavia, met up with Seemore Manlein, an extraordinary being. He was a Gnome. He, his wife Hepseva, and their very special friends, including some out of mythology, became involved in DESE activities in the dealing with evil witches.

The previous adventures dealt with evil witches, demons, black magic, voodoo and more. This earlier assignment ended in success. All members of DESE are secret federal agents, including the very young and exceptional Henry Wilson Worthington.

The continuation of this story starts where the last escapade ended. All members of DESE may not all take part in this book, but remain in the background available as supporting Federal Agents.

This next adventure starts soon after Henry returns home. It is as though Henry has no time to rest before this next episode begins with a very extraordinary and surprising message from Walter Murphy.

Read on.

CHAPTER ONE

THE RETURN

Black Lightning and Henry had just gone through a gauntlet of an ordeal. Even though one would think that Black Lightning’s experiences throughout her space travels could have toughened her for her most recent experiences, the fact is that some of the creatures, which she and her associates encountered, were of universal existence in time and space from the beginning of time, albeit in one form or another. The ordeal exhausted them and they needed rest and relaxation.

Elizabeth Sam and Henry Wilson Worthington left DESE headquarters hand in hand with stars in their eyes and a warm feeling in their hearts for each other. They were both more than just fond of each other and that presented a problem. Even though Henry matured greatly after his DESE experiences, he still was a high school student. He was not an adult by any means and would have to wait four years to achieve that ripe old age. It was possible that the DESE adventure might have caused the development of premature grey hairs despite his age. However, the traumatic episodes and stresses did not cause the development of even one grey hair.

Henry still had a mother and father. He would have to account to them regarding his activities and he had to live at home. It was fortunate that Mary Kent was able to help him in his activities at DESE by having school officials create special assignments for him in civics classes to which his parents assented. That enabled his absence from home and trips on DESE assignments. Henry’s parents were none the wiser.

It bothered Henry that he kept his parents in the dark concerning his special gifts. He assumed that at some future date all would be revealed to them. However, Henry had no idea about the how of such revelation. He would love to relate the stories of his DESE adventures to them, but realized that could never be. He was sworn to secrecy. The most his parents could ever know was that he was enlisted in a special service to his country on a voluntary basis and that such service was honorable, but required complete secrecy.

Additionally, revelation to his parents detailing his escapades could put them in danger from forces both known and unknown. That was a risk he was not willing to subject his mother and father. His secret would remain with him, at least for the time being. The less they knew, the safer they would be.

Henry and Elizabeth decided that it was necessary for Henry to maintain the charade of a schoolboy living a normal life at home with his parents. Elizabeth would return to Mary Kent’s house and continue her life as Black Lightning. After all, she had accustomed herself to a well-developed routine that was now quite a few years old.

Henry and Elizabeth found it difficult to part, but it was a choice thrust upon them by current circumstances. They both mutually agreed on the necessity to keep appearances just as they were before the recent DESE adventure. They expected to meet periodically here and there. However, the