Carlos Hazday

And as we all know, he's the best hung Squad member. Although I need to check out Lincoln now that he's earned a spot in the group.

I just had Owen's chief of staff refer to him as the First Dude... Everybody loves a Scandal That's the team's motto. Not sure if Owen will play for them again, but considering he and CJ own a piece of Washington's professional rugby team, I'm sure they'll continue supporting the amateur gay league.

They'd make a fortune with that stuff in my neighborhood. This is bear country for sure.

This is the fourth installment in the Earth Day Series, if you look at its front page, you'll get your answer. Owen made up the stories for Liebe and his friend (some guy named Carlos) recorded a few and published them. The names were changed to protect the guilty. LOL

Thank you, Dave. For the comment and the continued support.

Thank you. Most endings are bitter sweet for me, but I like your attitude. More's coming so this is simply a pause.

Margaret Cox may return before then. CJ does have two other stints with the State Department! Hang on to that tapestry thought. I may be mentioning something similar in an upcoming story

Linc already has tattoos on both shoulders, so he'd have to get the tattoo elsewhere on his body. Considering how large he is, there's plenty of real estate. Brett and Cesar will want to do something nice for him. Wouldn't you love to trash a cop the way CJ did and get away with it? I figured the CIA has contract pilots available to charter for special missions and Jake found one of those for them. CJ might be a hard ass, but he and Owen have good hearts. Of course they'll take care of anyone important to them. Trip I want to bring in at some point. I still haven decided if him, Joe, or someone else gets to be White House Communications Director/Press Secretry Thank you, my friend.

I'd still be taking month-long riding trips!

I'm jonesing for Black Bear diners.

Biker, Baker, and Special Agent Harley, Tank, and Lincoln...

Mann Ramblings is probably 15-20 years younger than I am!

And the quality of my stories owe you a big-ass debt! I have appearances by Austin and Calum penciled in already. Now all I have to do is write all the other stuff I have ahead of those stories.

Isn't it funny how attached we can become to fictional characters. Since I've referenced them both, y'all probably know I'm infatuated with Jack Ryan and Dirk Pitt.

LOL - Canada's the best option. Alaska's part of the US so we wouldn't have a diplomatic presence there. Siberia could be an option, but I don't want anything to do with Russia until Putin's been beheaded or hung.

Me too! The fact CJ called him out in front of others probably drove Northman nuts. I foresee him requesting a transfer out of mexico once he realized nobody respects him.

I have so many interesting characters I could spend the rest of my writing time on their backgrounds. Since I already wrote about Cesar and Brett in Malibu, they won't get another solo story. But they'll feature prominently in my next multi-chapter one. Thanks, Theo. Very happy you've enjouyed the series so far.

I've never read King. Not a fan of horror stories. How people enjoy being scared is beyond me. Clive Cussler, on the other hand, was a favorite author. My appearances in the series were inspired by him. If he could show up in Antartica and meet Dirk Pitt, I figured me meeting fellow bikers was an easy connection. I've mentioned a couple of times CJ and Owen discussing their future, CJ may have made the decision to ship Owen and Liebe to Miami, but Owen packed their bags so he had to be on board. As I just told someone in an email, the series is named after one character, and although Liebe and Owen feature prominently, CJ will always be top dog. Owen heard about CJ's plans to run for office early in their relationship, and he still married our man. I think it's fair to assume he's on board with whater CJ decided to do.

Stop looking at my notes!

As much as I enjoy getting praise, my work owes a lot to readers. You guys deserve credit for encouraging me.

Damn! I kill someone and y'all want more violence? And here I thought GA readers thrived on sappy romances. LOL

That ancient biker has good connections. Some Colombian guy named Alonzo, I think. You understand the need to wrap things up after a while. This book in particular was slightly different because of the thriller aspects, but I tried to revisit some of the earlier stuff by describing meals and locations in more detail. What I'm most interested in right now is how the State Department brass will react. Ambassador Cox certainly had to file a report or something. Oh, wait, I can write about that. Let me add it to the list. The stage will be set by the end of summer for CJ to become the ambassador to Cuba. I can't wait to hit the beaches and the mojitos!

Smart man! Repeating myself, my stories are not for speed-readers. I frequently drop details and hints many miss. Until I'm ready to publish again, there are plenty of good stories. I'll once again suggest anything by Jack Scribe; I think his work and mine have lots of similarities.

Well, since Harley wasn't around, the least I could do was hook those two up. I suspect CJ will thumb his nose at the Federal government when he works for them again. He'll be smoking up a storm no matter what. Thank you, Parker. I'm glad you enjoyed this one.

Believe it or not, the hardest part about writing this chapter was remembering everyone CJ had to say goodbye to. I may have missed some. But it was important because I plan to use some of the characters in the future.