The Daily Novel

Chapter 19
After suffering a stroke on Christmas Day, 1984, Christopher Hughes spent his final days on earth fluctuating between a conscious and semi-conscious state. Small blood vessels in his brain had been weakened by years of seizures, caused by the beating inflicted on him at Saint Sernin, and, in the end, ruptured, leading to a [...]

Pfisterr groaned and fell over in agony. He had never known such pain, and he realized he needed to reveal some classified secrets to his tormentor, if only to stay alive a little longer. “I wasn’t in charge of recruiting the shooters. That was Vackland. He went through Harvey and his ZR-RIFLE program. Probably one [...]

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As Daniel Everly Pfisterr left Sunday services at the First Presbyterian Church in North Dallas, he felt a renewed sense of comfort and peace. Communing with his spiritual side helped him put the nasty business in Honduras behind him. He had spoken with the Lord and had received the response he had always received on [...]

Chapter 18
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In January of 1982, Don Hayes resigned from the Perry County police force and began to regularly converse with Marie Kanermann about the murder of Walter Dornberger and the CIA’s vast array of “indiscretions.” Marie never revealed her sources to Don, but Don soon learned that Marie was a deep and dependable well of [...]

Chapter 17
Daniel Everly Pfisterr knew he was getting too old for the job when the simple exertion of striking the prisoner on the kneecap with a club winded him. Pfisterr was approaching his mid-sixties, an age when most men are retired and comfortably looking back on their life’s labor. Still, his lack of stamina took [...]

Chapter 16
By late February, St. Louisans have been so beaten down by winter that they have nearly lost hope of spring ever arriving. The cold, gray days eat at their sanity, and the bitter winds attack their will to go on. Many, like Don Hayes, turn to booze and reminisce about better days, rich with [...]

Chapter 14
AIC covert activities ceased as its members completed their junior years at American University. As the country’s youth turned against the war and became more active and radical, Peter, Julia, and Marie were content to let others carry the torch.
In the summer of 1966, Mark Lane’s groundbreaking expose on the Kennedy assassination was published. [...]

Chapter 13
In the second week of December 1965, semester finals finished, Marie, Julia, and Peter hopped into Julia’s 1961 Ford Fairlane and headed for Dallas. They took turns behind the wheel and stopped only for food and bathroom breaks. The trip took two days, and when they arrived in the city they drove the exact [...]

Chapter 12
On May 8, 1964, Gary Munshall was found dead of a gunshot wound to the head. The medical examiner ruled it a suicide. “Just a few problems with that,” Julia whispered to Marie and Peter at the visitation. “The wound was behind his left ear, and my dad was right-handed. They found the gun [...]

Chapter 11
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In 1963 the Vice President of the United States was a troubled man. Lyndon Johnson knew he was about to be dumped from the ’64 ticket by the president. He had become too much of a liability. Some in congress wanted to initiate an investigation of Johnson’s bribery and kickback schemes. His nefarious associations [...]