Riots, Sandy Koufax and rock and roll enter Chapter 27 of World of Hurt

Los Angeles under fire while Sandy Koufax pitches no-hitter in

 World of Hurt     A Novel of Las Vegas

Richard J Pietschmann

Chapter 27

September, 10, 1965: 

More than three weeks after the Watts Riots finally ended in smoldering ruin, the City of Angels had edged into jumpy calm. s cars set ablaze, and 34 died. But the game goes on at Dodger Stadium "After Koufax fanned the first two Cubs, veteran Harvey Kuenn came up to pinch-hit. One batter from a perfect game, the radio crackled with tension.

“Twenty-nine thousand people and a million butterflies,” Scully said.

The count went to two balls and two strikes.

“Sandy into his windup, here’s the pitch.” A momentary pause, then, “Swung on and missed, a perfect game!”

The crowd roared. Scully said nothing for more than half a minute.

Then, “On the scoreboard in right field it is 9:46 p.m. in the City of the Angels, Los Angeles, California. And a crowd of 29,139 just sitting in to see the only pitcher in baseball history to hurl four no-hit, no-run games. He has done it four straight years, and now he caps it: On his fourth no-hitter he made it a perfect game. And Sandy Koufax, whose name will always remind you of strikeouts, did it with a flurry."

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Watts riots, Malcolm X, Arden come together in Chapter 26 of World of Hurt

World of Hurt

A Novel of Las Vegas

Richard J Pietschmann

Chapter 26

August, 13, 1965: Los Angeles Ablaze

Ever since President Kennedy was assassinated nearly two years ago, the world seemed to go more and more insane. Malcolm X was killed in February and in March racial tension reached a bloody boiling point at Selma and Montgomery. Meanwhile, a pointless war metastasized into a beast that fed upon itself, a generation gap yawned into a chasm of mistrust, and atomic brinksmanship terrified an already terrified planet as stockpiles of nuclear weapons grew into the tens of thousands.

Arden couldn’t say if he was more horrified or exhilarated. Hate, savagery and paranoia seemed pumped into the very air the country breathed, yet he was thrilled that missionary work had allowed him to explore an exciting new world of interesting ideas and different people on and around the Sunset Strip.

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Arden can't get Suzy Creamcheese out of his head in Chapt. 25 of World 0f Hurt

World of Hurt Chapter 25 will rock your world it's a
Catch-22


"Even now, as he waited outside the Mission president’s office, Arden couldn’t get Suzy Creamcheese out of his head. She was so wild, so free, so unlike any girl he had ever met in his 19 years on Earth. She was from Salt Lake, or might be, but he never got to ask if she was Mormon, or had been. He had heard of LDS girls going wild after moving away, even engaging in prostitution." Go  to www.worldofhurtvegas.blogspot.com for more of this riveting novel.

Chapt. 24 of Richard Pietschmann's riveting novel is ready for reading

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"It was hard to feel sorry for Howard Hughes, one of the richest and most famous men in the world. The daring aviator and aircraft innovator owned TWA, one of the largest airlines in the world. He was an industrialist with thriving companies and almost unlimited resources. He had made popular motion pictures—Hell’s Angels, The Front Page, Scarface—and owned RKO, a major Hollywood studio. A million people cheered him in a ticker-tape parade. He dated beautiful women."
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Chapt. 23 World of Hurt is out! Explosive, dynamite a must read

World of Hurt

A Novel of Las Vegas

Richard J Pietschmann

Chapter 23

Oren: September, 1951

Big ideas fueled by big egos required big money. Like most people in Las Vegas, Oren now understood that. Each new casino hotel ratcheted up growth and tourism. But until tonight while the sheriff waited to get into Frank Sinatra's Vegas debut at the Desert Inn and overheard a conversation, he had no idea how that translated into dollars and cents. A pair of Meyer Lansky’s Miami men in front of him debated what a million dollars in hundred dollar bills weighed.

“That’s a lot of green,” said one. “Gotta be at least a hundred pounds.”

The other hood laughed.

“A million in hundreds is twenty pounds, shmuck. Three million fits in a suitcase easy. A duffel bag is five.”

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Chapter 22 World of Hurt: explosive evidence of nuclear testing in Las Vegas

Tyler heaved a weary sigh.

“Yes, sheriff, that is at least partly true, but we monitor weather conditions carefully before every test, and that includes wind direction. Besides, those dust clouds rise to 10,000 feet or more and dissipate quickly. Even if some dust fell locally, the brief half-lives of radionuclides reduces radiation to insignificant readings similar to normal background levels very quickly.”

Tyler talked past Oren to the room.

“Everyone should understand that the low potential for radiation and fallout complications is the main reason the Proving Ground is situated where it is.”

He held up a forefinger.

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Randy finds a bony, naked and nearly dead man in his home in Chapt.21 World of Hurt by Richard Pietschmann

Richard Pietschmann's World of Hurt

Chapt. 21 fast-paced,intriguing.....

"He stepped inside and immediately the hairs on the back on his neck rose. He swung the flashlight around the room and stopped when at the couch. A naked man lay prone on it. A naked bald emaciated man, his bony ribs rising and falling almost imperceptibly. 

Unanswerable questions raced through his head. Who was he? Why was he naked? Why was he here?"

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