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Most families have interesting histories and personalities. There’s sometimes an Uncle Ted that never came back from the war or a cousin Rose who married the Grand Duke of Moravia. But most families in the Mid-western U.S. live normal lives and don’t move far from the farm or small town where they grew up. Doc’s Tribe, originating in Missouri and Illinois, was unique. Phillip and Louise, the parents of the Vardiman family, believed in culture, education, travel, and adventure that propelled their children into exciting careers and experiences. They also moved frequently and owned ...

Masada Shall Never Fall Again The B4 Detective Agency has free time between murder investigations during a three-week visit to the Holy Land. Stacie Schlomo, an Israeli Mossad Agent who helped hire Bordeau as a consultant offers to take his team to tour the Masada National Monument. While Bordeau's team is at the historical site a large group of Orthodox Jews in black, remove all tourists from the mountain to stage a protest. Stacie's small tour group is overlooked and swept up in the protest. They help recover the body of a fallen tourist, treat the head protestors for wounds, and capture ...

He Will Have Two Horns Like a Lamb Renaldo, the childhood friend of Maurice Bordeau, recently became a Cardinal at the Vatican. He asks Bordeau and his detective agency to help investigate activities in the Vatican to see if there's any truth to the rumors that Pope Francis is organizing a global political/religious federation. Unfortunately, the rumors seem to be true. The Pope is building a robotic creature, called the Beast, and creating a biometric financial system called Diablo that mirrors some of the frightening scenarios of the End Times prophesied in the Bible. Renaldo asks Bordeau...

Empires Come and Go. Will This One Be the Last? Maurice Bordeau and his team of investigators are returning home to London after touring America, Europe, and Israel for eighteen months of sabbatical leave from Scotland Yard. Before Bordeau and Bristol get settled they're assigned to investigate an attempted shooting of Prince Charles as he was horseback riding in Hyde Park. Horatio Hornbladt, Chief Investigator with MI6, joins them to meet with the Prince and provides preliminary information that he's already uncovered. Bordeau and Bristol begin their own investigation that finds an ...

Alas, poor Charles, I knew you well. Bordeau and Bristol have arrived in London after traveling for a year in America. They return home with not only many wonderful memories but two wives. They met Katherine, Bordeau's wife, and Cindy, Bristol's wife in Dodge City, Kansas the previous summer as they were heading back to England. They were married by the captain of the Queen Mary on their way from New York to London and are now jockeying for dominance in their new relationships. At the same time Bordeau and Bristol are asked to solve murders at Westminster Abbey and a break-in at the ...

Could One Bomb Turn Off the Lights? Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico is about to test its latest design for protecting the Nation's electrical grid from an electromagnetic pulse by a nuclear explosion at high altitude. The design is to be tested over Bikini Island in the western Pacific by dropping an atomic bomb from a B-2 Spirit Bomber based at Whiteman AFB in Missouri. Bordeau and Bristol are tasked by the head of security, Joseph Warbucks, a former student of Bordeau's at Scotland Yard, to find the nest of spies stealing highly classified secrets about the design ...

Were Our Founders White Supremacists? Roger Steele, a Charlottesville FBI Agent and long-time friend of Bordeau"s, requests that Bordeau and Bristol help stop the local Antifa group from burning down Monticello. Antifa wants to make a political statement that America is racist and elitist since its founding. Bordeau identifies the leaders of the radical movement and develops a plan to capture them to prevent Monticello from being burnt. Coincidental to the investigation, the two confirmed bachelors become infatuated with two ladies from France they met the month before in Dodge City, Kansas...

The Big Boom Dreaded by All Mid-Eastern terrorists smuggle a dirty bomb through a tunnel under the border from Tijuana, Mexico with the intent of spreading death and destruction to millions of people living in Southern California. The terrorists come from five different Muslim countries to exact revenge on the infidels who defiled Muslim lands with their prescence. The plan is to bring as much pain and suffering to the West Coast as the New York Towers attack did to the East Coast. Two American Border Patrol agents are killed when they discover the smuggling operation. Bordeau and Bristol ...

When You're in Luck, You're in Luck Willie Nelson's bus driver is killed and his guitar, Trigger, is stolen in the parking lot behind Ryman Hall, Bordeau and Bristol are recruited by the Nashville Police Department to find the killer and the guitar. Willie carries the two detectives on his tour bus, Honeysuckle Rose, to Memphis, Branson, and Austin to recover Trigger. The chase turns into a version of Smokey and the Bandit from Branson to the Missouri/Oklahoma State line. Following several adventures Willie shows Bordeau and Bristol his ranch outside Austin, Texas; takes them to see his ...

Hurricanes are Full of Sound and Fury On their way to New York and finally home to London Bordeau and Bristol's train intercepts Hurricane Jaye, a category five storm, on the Amtrak Crescent through Louisiana. They're forced to seek refuge at the L'AuBerge Lake Charles Resort along with other train passengers and tourists trapped in the hotel. On the first night someone's murdered in the room above by someone driven mad by the incessant sound of the one hundred fifty-mph wind. Bordeau and Bristol volunteer to assist the hotel manager investigate the murders and attempt to rescue the crazed ...

Did Katy Do It? The Katy Trail is a state park that runs about 250 miles along part of the Missouri River from Kansas City to St. Louis. It's a hiking/biking trail that was converted from the old Missouri/Kansas/Texas Railroad. The trail crosses the Missouri River at Boonville, Missouri, a river town named for the sons of Daniel Boone who retired near St. Louis. Bordeau and Bristol are requested by an FBI agent and one of his former students at Scotland Yard to investigate the disappearance of a biker traveling the Katy Trail. The case leads to the discovery of a series of murders that ...

Take the Bodies, Leave Only Footprints Buck Randall, Head Ranger at Grand Canyon National Park, keeps finding bodies floating down the Colorado River, many ending up at the foot of Bright Angel Trail. Where are they coming from and who's responsible for their deaths? Bordeau and Bristol are requested by the Park Superintendent to assist Buck find the culprit who appears to be tossing people off the rim of the inner gorge. Lonesome Eagle is their first suspect, a descendent of the ancient Anasazi who once lived at Grand Canyon. His wife and son recently died and while recovering from his ...

All Babies Go to Heaven. Will Seniors?Why are hundreds of seniors in the Denver metropolitan area disappearing? Bordeau and Bristol receive an invitation from the Denver Police Department to assist in the investigation and must decide if they're willing to forgo part of their travels around America to help. Of course, Bordeau always wants to lend a hand, but neither he nor Bristol anticipate the abominable scheme they uncover in Denver. Bordeau invites a reporter from the Denver Post to help, in return for publishing the scheme on the front page of his newspaper. They discover that a new ...

Chairmen Don’t Die, Just Lose their Faculties Bodies of professors from UCLA are turning up in strange places - one in the Le Brea Tar Pits in central LA, another at the Getty Villa near Malibu, and a third in the Avalon Ballroom on Catalina. The second and third were posed to represent some bizarre parody of the victim's teaching specialty. Bordeau and Bristol are requested by their friend, Professor Bixler, Chairman of the UCLA History Department, to assist the LAPD investigate who's killing off members of his department and why. The motive is difficult to determine and, as the clues ...

How High Does the Villainy Go? A group of religious universities and seminaries in St. Louis are being vandalized by a local Antifa group. Bordeau is requested by his friend Luis, a priest at St. Louis University, to find out why the schools are being targeted. An ecumenical council of presidents from several schools wants to know what can be done to stop the culprits. The attackers began by spray painting threats and hate symbols on campus buildings and soon graduated to firebombing a dormitory and some buses. A student was killed at the university and fear spread that the violence would ...

Foreign diplomats are frozen to death clinging to the sides of Chicago skyscrapers, the Chairman of the Economics Department at the University of Chicago is drowned in the Chicago River at the foot of the Sears Tower, and executives from several social media giants in California are tossed off the Golden Gate Bridge. A 'turf war' of sorts has broken out between the faculties at the University of Chicago and the University of California Berkeley over the issue of nationalism versus globalism; borders or no borders; sovereignty or subjection. The celebrated international investigative duo ...

Pretty Bubbles in the SkyNASA is losing engineers. They're not retiring, but simply disappearing without a trace. Is a foreign country kidnapping some of the best minds working on a new initiative to colonize the Moon by 2024? How is it possible that three specialists who design habitats for the Moon could vanish and leave no trace? Were they killed? Were they abducted by aliens? Bordeau and Bristol are recruited by the Houston Police Department to find the missing engineers and determine if they were captured or murdered for some nefarius purpose. Meanwhile a consortium of engineers who ...

Seniors are dying at the Brookside Senior Living Center in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. This is not unusual, but the rate has doubled in the last six months. One or two retirees are now dying each week. The executive director reports to the police that someone appears to be helping the grim reaper harvest his crop more quickly than expected. Chief Detective Bradley requests his friend and celebrated international investigator, Maurice Bordeau, and his confidante, Anthony Bristol, to take a break from their train tour across America and assist him to find the murderer.

A Techno Thriller for Cloud Physicists A group of scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research has learned that several alpine glaciers in the western US appear to be growing after retreating for 200 years. They hiked into the Arapaho Basin west of Boulder to find that the Arapaho Glacier was growing. The group extended their investigation by flying NCAR's cloud physics King Air into the mountains of Colorado and Wyoming. The investigation suggested that someone must be releasing large quantities of silver iodide to increase snowfall over the entire West. Who would do such a ...