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                   World of Hurt

A Novel of Las Vegas

Richard J Pietschmann

Chapter 34

Arden:  Los Angeles, November 15, 1966

Arden had seen trouble brewing for months. As the crowds thronging Sunset Strip grew, sheriff’s deputies responded by hassling hippie kids for loitering, blocking traffic and smoking pot. Worried about a repeat of the terrible Watts riots a summer ago, city leaders clamped down harder with a 10 p.m. curfew intended to get underage kids off the streets and sidewalks. The cops then were bombarded with handy antiwar and prodrug slogans.

Hell no, we won’t go the kids chorused, tune in, turn on, drop out.

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Howard Hughes wants Oren in his movie Chapt, 32 World of Hurt

Another explosive chapter to enjoy

If you haven't been reading it, shame on you, but if you go to Chapter 32 you will be hooked, trust me.

"Hughes said, “How would you like to be in my movie, Oren?”

Oren hummed a skeptical note.

“Well, Howard, I don’t know about that. I’m no actor.”

“Acting is so easy even those imbecile pretty boys can do it. But you wouldn’t be acting. You’d be a sheriff’s captain.”

Hughes was fishing, so Oren fished back.

“What would I do?”

“Just a few scenes that won’t take any time, but you’d bring authenticity to the part. You could wear your own uniform and that hat Miss Russell seems to like so much.”

Now Oren got it. Hughes wanted him to keep an eye on the actress and report back to him. He didn’t mind Hughes being in his debt, but he sure didn’t want to be his errand boy."

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Chapter 14 of World of Hurt is out and it's a jaw-dropper

World of Hurt Chapter 14

by Richard J Pietschmann

You really need to read this....

Mount Charleston: January 28, 1951

What Lieutenant Colonel Tibbetts did not say, and what almost no one knew at the time, was that in mid-1943 Wendover had been designated Site K of the Manhattan Project and code-named “Kingman.” It was located in the largest bombing and gunnery range in the country, bigger even than the huge one north of Las Vegas. “Silverplate” B-29s modified for use as atomic bombers would be based there and the crews that flew them trained there. The 509^th was created entirely for atomic warfare.

Only when he had counted again to five did he cautiously peek through the black lenses at the surging fireball rising over Frenchman Flat. The roiling atomic furnace faded gradually to a fierce rosy glow that pulsed with energy. A sharp cracking rumble hurt his ears and echoed in the valley below. The shock wave hit then, spanking the ground with a rough shove, followed by an almost equally violent second shock. The fireball transformed again into the brilliant blue-purple luminescence of a burning sun. A strong gust of wind whistled, nearly snatching the tarp from him, breaking free tree branches and raining down pine cones. A murky mushroom head shot through with crackling fire supported atop a thin column like a nuclear tornado raced past his eye level and sped for the heavens.

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Chapter 11 of World of Hurt at the Lucky: JUL 24 World of Hurt Chapter 11 Randy gets a proposition and new crime scene techs get a lesson

Weaving through the Lucky toward the bar, Randy saw his partner looking at him in the yellowed bar back mirror with a cop’s eye for clues. Kimo would see a dazed look on his face and assume his conversation with Jeri was the reason. That was true, of course. But what was bothering him most was blurting out that he was still married. He wasn’t so sure of that.  
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