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This is the second in a series of stories featuring game warden Randy Waters. Trinidad, Colorado is the setting where game poachers kill many animals, take certain body parts, and then leave the carcass to rot. Randy is determined to stop the killing, but his first encounter with the poachers almost leaves him dead. He captures one of the men after a gun battle but the other escapes into the mountains.Winter blankets the land and the second poacher has disappeared. Some clues lead Randy and a sheriff to a summer mountaintop retreat in which the poacher has been hiding for months. Randy has ...

Two young married couples are caught up in a situation that gets out of control during a night at a bar. A man decides to start the long drive home over a mountain pass with the other man's wife. The musician is left wondering whether or not some arrangement has been made while he was playing in the dance band. Tire tracks on the snowy mountain road reveal information that the musician and the other man's wife have to confront later.

Randy Waters, game warden for the Trinidad District of Colorado is not very popular with people he has arrested in the past. He and a Parole Officer in Canon City begin receiving death threats. They try to discover who they have in common and try to catch the would-be killer. Waters is shot at while investigating the scene of a poaching and he calls in his Detective friend Don Pepper who helped him solve a previous case. A part-time resident butts into the investigation and winds up helping solve the case. The investigation covers the beautiful country in the foothills of the Sangre de ...

This is a fictionalized version of a real event in Kansas City. A new hotel opened after many delays and engineering changes. The soaring lobby featured three suspended walkways connecting the second, third and fourth floors across the atrium. During a dance those walkways collapsed killing many people. I was curious about the event and began to do research shortly after it happened. At that time it was difficult to find details so I made up many of the incidences. Twenty years after the tragedy the Kansas City Star published pictures and a story that matched many of the things I had ...

A small town in North Central Kansas putters through life unaware of the danger lurking just down the street. Although the danger is benign at first, it turns violent later. This is a description of small town life and how it can be disrupted by one strange personality.

Fires of a False Allah by Brian G. AngevineRandy Waters serves as the last line of defense in a terrorist plot to disrupt law enforcement in Colorado in preparation for a bigger event. Pairs of terrorists scatter all over Colorado starting forest fires. The last pair of individuals are heading over Cuchara Pass to impact the Trinidad area.Waters confronts the two along the highway at Stonewall, a unique geographic feature radiating from the twin peaks. One man is killed while the other escapes into the nearby mountains. Waters pursues him and the story culminates in a shootout.

Randy Waters is a game warden in Trinidad, Colorado. In the past he has solved a number of crimes and been plunged into situations far beyond his job description. Five previous stories established Waters as an unwitting hero of sorts while he went about his duties. This story puts him in the twilight of his career and pits him against a rogue bear that threatens humans. Waters becomes the Bear Bait and wages an epic battle with the beast.

Randy Waters, Game Warden for the Trinidad, Colorado district has to deal with anti-hunting groups who occupy his territory at the beginning of hunting season. The demonstration was triggered because Waters spotted a Lynx far from its usual territory, and the subsequent report in the news media. Many hunters, of course heavily armed, are upset with the disruption and take action against the group. A man and a young woman from the group decide to stay behind and continue to interrupt hunting in the area. They camp at the edge of a mountain meadow and disrupt a hunter taking aim at a huge, ...

The author explores aspects of trout fishing throughout his youth. He was fascinated by the fish he caught in world famous Jarre (Cheesman) Canyon of the South Platte River in Colorado, From the age of five onward, he and his father enjoyed the solitude (then) of Jarre Canyon. Now it hosts hundreds of people fishing its famous waters on a daily basis. He also explores the differences between fly fishing and spin fishing and changing attitudes about methods. Perhaps you will learn something, but at least you will enjoy the exploration of trout fishing.

A gas drilling crew stumbles upon a cave with mysterious properties in the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains in Southern Colorado. Their discoveries trigger fear in Jarosa Canyon. A specialist from Colorado State University if called in to investigate the cave and the artifacts in it. The specialist and a local law enforcement officer find many skeletons of ancient Spanish Conquistadores along with mummified remains of Native Americans. Their investigation produces alarming phenomena that nearly kill them. Flashbacks to the early settlement of the area profile the importance of ...

A severely depressed man attempts suicide in a totally ridiculous way. By pure happenstance a woman is in the right place at the right time to stop the attempt. Because of this chance encounter the two form a new relationship that has the usual ups and downs of any joining of two lives. The rest of the story examines the new relationship and comes to a conclusion.

A Fox Indian marries a white woman and they have a son together. Jimmy Honoki, the Indian, begins to feel an awakening of his heritage after the birth. The place where he was born becomes more important to him but it is now at the bottom of a lake. His desire to return to his homeland causes great stress in his life until he blows up a portion of the dam in an attempt to reclaim what he feels belongs to him. His best friend and his wife become involved in attempting to help him adjust to his problems and become accomplices in covering up his crime. His crime goes unnoticed and the lake ...

An American woman travels to Kosovo to study. She meets a Kosovar man and begins a relationship with him. An ethnic cleansing campaign carried out by Serbia disrupts their relationship and threatens to destroy the country and its people. NATO bombing attempts to stop the ethnic violence but causes collateral damage, including people close to the Kosovar man. He sets out on a path of revenge. An accident forces the American woman and the Kosovar man back together and they try to help each other with problems that confront them. Although the ethnic violence is a major part of the story, a ...

A woman is found dead on the outskirts of Trinidad, Colorado. The police believe she was mauled by a bear, so game warden Randy Waters is called in to handle the case. Sensationalism brings an influx of news media spreading the gruesome attack. Preliminary investigation by Waters convinces him the woman was murdered and staged to look like a bear attack. The false story spreads, and vigilante hunters begin shooting every bear on sight.Waters calls in his friend, a detective in Colorado Springs to help him work the murder angle. As they work the case, another attack happens starting the ...

This is a rather brief biography of my life. I did not want to create a huge book like Bill Clinton's biography--besides that I am nowhere near as accomplished. So I touch on areas of my life that had great influence on my development. I hope anyone who wishes to read this will find it interesting and maybe even pertinent to their own life and development. Maybe there is something to be learned here.