Blurb
Richard Kerrigan is on the verge of losing hope. Fired from his job for blowing the whistle on a defect that would harm service members if used as designed, he is now blacklisted in the Chicago area. A local Serbian mobster wants Richard and won’t take no for an answer.
Garou Industries, the loup garou privately owned company, has been searching for Richard to offer him a position in the company as they value having someone with his integrity on staff. Richard relocates to Manhattan to begin his new job and stays with Julien Bellaire, his mentor, who is also Richard’s Mate.
Before they can settle in, the Serbian mobster turns up dead and a corrupt cop who secretly works for the Serbians comes to New York with trumped up charges to pin the murder on Julio. With over eighty witnesses to Julio being on an airplane at the time of the murder, the cop abandons trying to frame Richard and instead plots to murder him. The loup garou request assistance from the Italian mob to protect Richard which comes with some interesting consequences.
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Series: Werewolves of Manhattan
Book: 7
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Publisher: MLR Press
Categories: Contemporary/ Fantasy/ Paranormal /Shifter
Buy Links
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Excerpt
Chicago
Switched Power Designs - Power Supply Group
Eighteen Months Ago
Richard Kerrigan stood
nervously in front of the director of his division’s desk for thirty minutes
shifting his weight from one foot to the other while Ronald Kitteridge spoke on
the phone and read an article in the Chicago Tribune, his desk littered with
empty paper coffee cups and piles of newspapers. He did not ask him to sit down
in one of the two black vinyl and chrome chairs in front of his desk.
Kitteridge largely ignored him.
Finally, Richard,
tired of being ignored, spoke up in a gruff voice. “Mr. Kitteridge, I’m sorry
to disturb you, but there is something wrong with the power supply for the new
Cougar II troop transport.”
“And how does this
concern you?” Kitteridge didn’t raise his eyes from his newspaper to meet
Richard’s.
Richard, shaking but
determined, continued. “My original design contained components from Minster
because they are our preferred vendor.”
Kitteridge looked at
him over the top edge of the newspaper. “So…?”
“When we tested my
design, the Minster parts caused the power supply unit to overheat, and it
started a fire.” Kitteridge’s face grew hard. Richard felt his face mottle with
anger. He knew what he was up against. “I changed the components to ones supplied
by Charter because they had much higher heat tolerance specs and the design
held. But production is using the Minster component despite the fact Charter
was specified.”
“We use Minster parts
for most of our products. Why should this be any different?” Mr. Kitteridge
barked.
Richard was treading
on thin ice, but he was determined to do the right thing. He peered down at his
blurry reflection staring up at him from the highly polished floor. The floor
and the slick modern office contrasted directly with the unholy mess on
Kitteridge’s desk.
He tried again. “You
can’t risk a fire in one of those vehicles, sir. For this application, Minster
sells substandard parts. They don’t meet the specifications the government gave
us. We have to stop production.” Richard Kerrigan’s hands clenched and sweat
beaded on his brow and upper lip. Junior engineers didn’t go up against
Kitteridge and keep their jobs.
“The failure rate is a
little more than five percent which is perfectly acceptable.” Kitteridge took a
sip from the one cup that still held coffee. The director had a Keurig machine
behind his desk. Of course, he didn’t drink the sludge the junior engineers
were given. Kitteridge stuck another cup under the brewer, lifted the lid and
put in another packet.
Despite Kitteridge’s
annoyance Richard continued. “These parts go into a military vehicle. We have a
moral obligation to the troops to make sure that they get the best possible
equipment. They’re in enough danger as it is, they shouldn’t be at risk from
substandard parts. Five percent is five out of every hundred vehicles. That
can’t be acceptable.”
Richard clenched his
fists. Damn his red hair and light complexion. When he was angry, his face
turned beet red. How he wished he didn’t give his feelings away so easily. His
fingers tightened and released until his nails almost pierced his skin. He
grabbed the back of the chair and held on so tight his nails made half-moons in
the vinyl in his futile effort to keep his temper in check.
Kitteridge put down
his newspaper. “This decision was made by management. It’s not your call,
Kerrigan.” His tone was frosty. He stared at Richard as if he were a bothersome
mosquito.
But Richard didn’t
want to accept responsibility for substandard parts in his design that would
cause vehicle fires and possibly take the lives of the soldiers driving those
vehicles. Relentlessly, he pushed forward. “In this application, Mr.
Kitteridge, any chance of fire is unacceptable.”
“It’s a risk that
Switched Power Designs is willing to take. The parts from Minster saved the
company millions. That’s all I want to hear from you on this subject. Go back
out and do your job and leave the executive decisions to the people who are
paid to make them.” Kitteridge turned away from Richard, dismissing him. He started
to enter data into his computer.
Richard refused to
leave. He raised his voice. “Mr. Kitteridge, I don’t think you understand what
I’m telling you, people could die if we use the Minster parts.” He took a deep,
calming breath. “It would be dishonest. The military tested units with the
Charter parts.”
“Richard, you’re an
excellent engineer, but you get too involved in production. That isn’t your
responsibility. Let this go. If you don’t, things will go badly for you.”
Kitteridge sent him a threatening scowl.
I can’t let this go.
People could die. Richard left his office, but he persisted in his quest to do
right by the troops. This would cost him his job, but he wouldn’t be
responsible for one soldier losing his life because the company wanted to save
twenty-five dollars per component in an eighteen-thousand-dollar power supply.
He began by going over
Kitteridge’s head to the Vice President of Engineering where he got the same
answer. The president of Switched Power refused to give him an appointment.
After he exhausted all channels there, he finally called his congressman in
desperation. He was called to testify at closed-door hearings, and new tests
were performed on the power supply with the Minister parts. The part was deemed
unacceptable. As a result, production ceased, and all of the Cougar II vehicles
had to be retrofitted.
However, Richard was
out of a job. As a whistleblower, Switched Power Designs shouldn’t have been
able to fire him, but they accused him of insubordination and not being a team
player. He didn’t have the money to hire a lawyer to fight his termination.
They said he was fired with cause, and he received no letter of reference or
severance.
Present Day
Switched Power
blacklisted Richard in Chicago, and he didn’t have the money to start somewhere
new. Earlier that year he used his savings to put his mother in a hospice to
make sure she was cared for properly while she was dying from breast cancer.
Now, Mom was gone, he had no job, and unemployment had run out. Stuck in a life
of unrelenting poverty, he lost his apartment. Richard got a job at as a
check-out clerk in a local grocery and at night he worked as a bartender
managing to barely make the rent for a furnished studio in a not-so-nice
neighborhood. He sold his furniture and his car. All the money he had to spare
went toward his college loans. He had protein bars for breakfast and ate a
burger at the bar for dinner. The only things he kept from his old life was his
computer and cell phone. He used the service at Kinko’s to print out his
resumes.
He hadn’t given up; it
wasn’t in his personality, so he still spent money applying for technical
positions in the Chicago area. But the specter of his actions at Switched Power
Designs followed him everywhere, and it all seemed hopeless.
Then there was Davilor
Kasun, his own personal nemesis,who was a tough in the Serbian mob and wanted
his ass. So far, Kasun hadn’t been able to find out where Richard lived, but it
was only a matter of time. He should move out of Chicago if he wanted to stay
healthy but he didn’t have the funds. He had nothing and soon he might not even
have his life if he refused Kasun’s advances again. If Kasun found out where he
lived, he’d rape him and be done with it.
Fun & In-Depth Character Questions
It’s Saturday at noon. What is your character doing? Give details. If they’re eating breakfast, what exactly do they eat? If they’re stretching out in the backyard to sun, what kind of blanket or towel does they lie on?Richard lives in a furnished apartment. His linens are his own and are of decent quality. They are almost the only things in the apartment that are.
What is one strong memory that has stuck with your character from childhood? Why is it so powerful and lasting?
The day he left his friend Julio sitting and waiting on his step for his parents.
Your character is getting ready for a night out. Where will they be going? What do they wear? Who will they be with?
Richard has two jobs. He doesn’t do night’s out. At night he bartends at a dive bar near his apartment.
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AC Katt didn’t discover her muse until she was older. She loves to write and now writes constantly. She just moved from New Mexico back to New Jersey with her husband and her naughty cat Bandit, who lives up to his name.Where to find the author:
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