Chasing Fox Tails #95

By D. E. Harrison

Detective Rage and Patrolman Jones go to an ice skating rink in Seattle. Here they play catch the fox’s tail. One skater has the tail in his back pocket for others to take. Rage misses it so much Jones plans on a winter wonder land trip for them. Being a Seal, he plans an adventure in the snow. It takes days to pack for the trip. Rage needed some special cold weather gear just for her. It gets all mixed up with a Roy Roger’s movie, a tape measure, and the locked bathroom door. Finally, her cold weather gear is available.
The Colonel has a winter Seal training exercise planned and he allows the two of them to join in. Rage has to jump into a black hole before landing in the snow. Soon they set up camp with two tents, a large fire, and all looks good. The remainder of the winter exercise is several hundred miles away.
Wolves are out hunting elk and Jones must be careful not to lead them back to camp. Then a snowstorm hits and dumps on them another four feet. Next a cold blast from the north pole goes south into the USA. Temperatures may go to 78 below zero. To compound problems, there are intruders several miles away from their camp. They should not be there and no one seems to know what or why they are there.
The Colonel does bring the larger part of the exercise back to base before the absolute freezing temperatures occur. However, Rage and Jones will have to ride out the storm. Meanwhile, everyone is trying to figure out how to extract Jones and Rage after the cold temperatures rise a little. But the snow and temperatures keep falling. It freezes one thermometer at 74 below.
Rage and Jones are down to one zippered sleeping bag heated by solar batteries with days of no sunshine. How can the Colonel help these two with the cold, the intruders, and the wolves? Can Jones as a Seal figure a way out of this when all he has is solid water and the cold to work with?

• Language: English
• Publisher: D. E. Harrison
• Release date: Jan 17, 2024
• ISBN: 9798215286777

D. E. Harrison

I am trained as a theoretical mathematician. I am an emeritus member of the American Mathematical Society for fifty odd years. I have lived in Seattle since 1967. I starting writing fiction after writing a family history.

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Chasing Fox Tails #95

By D. E. Harrison

Copyright 2023 by D. E. Harrison

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introductions

Chapter 2 Slow Times

Chapter 3 Preparations

Chapter 4 Stay Low and Watch

Chapter 5 Waiting

Chapter 6 The Big Freeze

Chapter 7 Getting out

Chapter 8 The Ending

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Chapter 1 Introductions

Introducing Detective Harry Smith

The senior homicide Detective Harry Smith is the ‘go by the book’ type. He grinds out cases with hard, solid police work, and has been on the force for nineteen years. He is from the old school and the suit coat never comes off. Nothing seems to bother him on the outside. He is famous for his Sears’s Suckers suits. Occasionally when things are not going to well, Detective Smith starts to rub his full head of hair. Every hair has been trained for thirty years. No matter what happens they do return to their chosen place, after he has a good rub.

Introducing Detective Janette Wanda Rage’s Her badge number is 7304.

She had been a patrolman for several years. She was the first officer to carry a Colt 45s in the entire police force. The police began reviewing their entire small arms procedure after this. It all came about when patrolman Rage riding as a rookie patrolman became involved with a street gang. The situation got out of control and Internal Affairs stuck their nose in after it was all over. You can understand better what and why she carries a Colt 45 as her standard sidearm after reading the ‘13th Street Gang.’

The now rookie homicide Detective Janette Rage has been on the Police force for almost eight years. She is bright, aggressive, and dedicated to the job. She takes a fair amount of ribbing about her last name and the color of her hair. It usually goes on until they see her empty a clip of sixteen rounds at twenty yards into a 4-inch circle. She shoots a competition matched pair of Colt 45s. If that is not enough, she will crack a few ribs, and she will do it again in the gym.

She is a very powerful and attractive young woman with a real bang. She picked the spot she wanted to finish in the final ranking as a patrolman. She is always looking down the road before she jumps. In slow or almost instant decisions, she is way down the road when she makes one. She appears to be a little too quick in judging situations, but she has yet to be shown wrong.

Three years earlier, she had completed the Detective training course at the academy. She finished in second place; the other woman there finished twelfth out of the fifteen total candidates. In such a large metropolitan police force, her new duty assignment could have been one of many. She did not know until Monday after graduation her exact assignment.

Just seven days after graduation and four days on the job homicide Detective Rage shows up for duty, she finds herself in a fatal multiple shooting investigation. The rookie Detective Rage has been involved in more fatal multiple shootings investigations than most see in a lifetime. That does not count the fatal multiple shootings she and her Colts has been personally involved in where they tried to shoot her. A Homicide Detective may be considered a rookie for four years or more.

The wheels turn a little faster in dispatch when they receive a call with shots fired from an officer.

When Rage’s call of shots fired comes in, several additional calls are made. First, SWAT is sent out, then the medics, which are usually not needed, then the Coroner George who is always needed, and finally Inspector Strong is called. Her HLS agent code is JX179.

She finishes her filing and picks up the old folder on top of her desk, placed there by Detective Smith.

Before she opens it, he says, Have a try, you have never seen that old folder. I have seen it only twice; the Inspector has seen it maybe four times. Back then there were only two of us. The Inspector inherited the old open file when they first brought him in. I think the old file was around for years before it turned up in our box. In my term of service of nine years we have only added two more file to the open folder making a total of four. It is five if you count the very old case.

Introducing Inspector Strong, his badge number is 003.

The Inspector’s name is Strong. Earl Strong, class of 1940, University of Texas. He was a Major in the Military Police. Early 60’s, stands about 5 feet 9 inches, weight 150 pounds, and what’s left of his hair is buzzed