The latest work by David I. Black... It is 2013 in Valencia, CA and the stakes are high for Mark Bowman as he and his previous friend Theo Koussevitzky, who was mysteriously estranged from him over time, must negotiate a truce or solution to stop an underground covert war that has spun out of control and backfired. Theo reveals he is now trapped in the secret high-tech underground facility that he built to watch and control his long-ago friend Mark, who must listen to communications he receiving in order to obtain the intel necessary to release his friend from what sounds like a replica of...

"Forsooth a dragon cometh too; a kind of wisdom to tally true," two teenage boys in Wisconsin wrote onto a page of song lyrics in 1992, unaware the words sounded like several verses of Book of Isaiah, Chapter 34 in the King James Version. Eighteen years later, Rolling 30's Harlem Crips gang member Darius Gant, with a dragon tattoo on his arm, shot 8 bullets into an innocent bystander near downtown Los Angeles to exact a vendetta as part of a gang war with neighboring gang "the fruit town brims." One of those two Wisconsin kids, David Bilskemper, later (and right before his name change to last...