Lee Hacklyn Private Investigator in War! What Is It Good For? Absolutely Everything!: Lee Hacklyn, #1

By John Leister

New York City. 1976.

Lee is hired by General Dwight Hunter of the US Army, retired,

to investigate the bombing of veteran's hospital.

• Language: English
• Publisher: John Leister
• Release date: Sep 9, 2023
• ISBN: 9798223300700

Book preview

CHAPTER ONE

Surprise!

Oh, Lee!  I’m going to kill you!

That’s a long line-up.  You might want to bring a book.

As our mother, she who birthed us, Alison, Ann’s husband, Geoff, and their three-year old daughter, my niece, Gretchen, sang, Happy Birthday, I threw my arms around, Ann, my big sister, older than me by two years.

I was twenty-six at the time.

She hugged me back.

No man is an island.

When we’re suffering though our darkest hours, we need to remind ourselves, sometimes, that it’s often darkest before the dawn.

We need to have faith that another dawn is ahead and that our struggles in the moment are worth enduring.

My sister and her husband were corporate lawyers.  Neither one of them had every lost a case.

Neither have I, so to speak, unless you, Dear Reader, count that time I lost a case of Male Ale while relieving myself in a Ralph’s restroom.

What kind of man would steal another man’s beer?  Maybe he was a she.

Back in the swinging 70s, nobody knew what pronoun anxiety was and everybody would have laughed at the very idea of it.

On the other hand, there were no mobile phones, either; and they’ve saved my life on more than occasion.

Whatever time and place we live in, there are always trade-offs. 

Geoff and Ann lived in a huge, posh Forest Hills house, complete with a tennis court and a swimming pool.

Best of all?

Not one of their bathrooms had a trace of mold.

To me, their home was as amazing at the Bat-Cave.

Geoff kissed Ann and so did our mother, while a bewildered-looking Gretchen hung onto her leg, as if for dear life.

Their living room was littered with a plethora of birthday decorations.

There was a long table set up