Lee Hacklyn Private Investigator in Animal House of Cards: Lee Hacklyn, #1

By John Leister

New York City. 1975.

Nineteen-year old New York Univerisity student Elizabeth Billings is in a coma and

on life support, the victim of gang rape.

The police have no leads.

Elizabeth's parents hire Lee to find the perpetrators and bring them to justice.

Or the early graves they so richly deserve.

• Language: English
• Publisher: John Leister
• Release date: Dec 17, 2023
• ISBN: 9798223481027

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NEW YORK CITY.  1975.

CHAPTER ONE

I was standing in line at the Department of Motor Vehicles—my driver’s license expires today.

As for my corporeal existence?

Ongoing, against all odds.

I’ve been shot more times than John Dillinger, thank you, FBI.

The line-up was moving slower that Fifth Avenue traffic during a snowstorm.

By the time I’m served, will I have any hair or teeth left?

Apparently, the entire population of Queens decided, as one, to renew their driver’s licenses, today.

I was the only one in the line-up reading a book, just saying, Dianetics by L. Ron Hubbard, ha, ha, I tease, actually, I have that book, it was a birthday present from my mother, I started it, but by the end of the first chapter, I felt like killing myself, which might have been the plan, so I threw against my bedroom wall and shot it.

Just kidding, Dear Reader.

I didn’t shoot my gun, but there are days when I think that my mother wouldn’t mind so much if I took a long walk off a short ledge.

It wound up down my garbage chute.

Nice try, Mom, I’m still alive!

In fact, I was reading Marko Manhunter, the Mob Mauler #249 Massacre in Minnesota.

Duck,