Of Blood and Stone by Howard Upton

Author:Howard Upton [Upton, Howard]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Kaizen Quest Publishing
Published: 2014-11-03T05:00:00+00:00

An announcement was made over the intercom that his flight would be boarding in approximately twenty minutes. He was still pissed that he couldn’t take a direct flight to Monterrey, but resigned himself to connecting through Dallas. Hopefully, that fucked up airport won’t have a tornado circling the top of it like it usually does. Seems like every time I go through there the airport gets shut down and another mobile home gets destroyed, he thought to himself.

Dugan had really wanted to take his private jet to Mexico, but he would be flying under an alias to avoid detection. He had chartered a private jet to his destination from Monterrey though, and that made him a little happier about the situation. The cartouche would be in his possession, and a lot of loose ends would be cut off soon enough.

He walked to the restroom to relieve himself then ventured to a Starbuck’s to buy a cup of coffee. It would be a long travel day for him, and he needed to work through a few more details in his mind, most especially would be reversing the incantation. Finding a family member wouldn’t be an issue, as the DNA strains had already been proven, but how the spell would be undone posed a much bigger problem. Should the legends prove true, knowledge passed down through the family could possibly be found in either practice or in tradition. Either way, he fully intended to unlock the secret and become a multi-millionaire in the process.

Joining him in Monterrey would be that crass son of a bitch, Buddy Smith. If he wasn’t the man working to land him the cash with the Christians In Action, he would have put a bullet in his head a long time ago. He knew the U.S. government had been following some of his dealings globally for quite some time, and Smith had been one he suspected of keeping tabs on him. Having the knowledge that he was being watched had been beneficial to the point that it forced him to be even more careful in his dealings in the shadow world, but it didn’t mean that at some point in time he wouldn’t torture that idiot and make him beg for his life.

Sharing much of the knowledge about the cartouche and Terracotta Warriors with Smith had pained him, but he recognized how ridiculous the story of the curse would seem to the uninitiated. Dugan needed an advocate in order to sell his wares, and while the story was far-fetched, he knew the United States government had invested in the black arts on several occasions. If for one moment they thought they could get the upper hand on the Russians and Chinese, they would pay handsomely. Of special interest to the Brotherhood of Allied Capitalists, otherwise known as the U.S. military, would be taking something from China that was inherently theirs. Hypocritical bastards that his countrymen were, he accepted the fact that they were opportunists of the highest order.

There was one thing that no one had taken into account, no one, that was, except him.

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