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Devon was bullied and the suffering was there right from the start of this story. I wanted the 3 guys to pay. I definitely wasn’t a fan of Jeb trying to get forgiveness or “court” Devon. But people can change and so did my opinion. I was rooting for Jeb to win back Dev’s heart. I certainly wasn’t wanting a thug to snuff out his life so brutally. The chapter was hard to read and very disturbing. When I went to bed last night my mind was very active thinking about Jeb. Now who will be the one to capture alive, yes alive, Ephraim? Ephraim needs to hang for what he did to his own community and to Jeb. He’s also to blame for Lemuel’s death too. Ephraim has caused nothing but chaos and he needs to be stopped. Somehow I see Devon as the one who gets the job done.

This is a great “who-dunnit” novel. It’s action packed with loads of mis-direction. Each character introduced just keeps the suspense shifting from one person to another. But this is more than murder, this is full of characters with lots of motive and lots of unbelievable actions. Our primary suspect is drugged up daily by his own mother, why? Who will support him and rescue him from her clutches. Who else is going to be arrested or questioned. Read to the very end, you don’t want to miss a single word.

Poor Simon. I hope he likes his new roommate.

I really enjoyed this and almost didn’t read it. The description didn’t really lull me in, but this was a sweet read. Now I have to find these other Jimmy references to read them as well.

“Well that up there’s more Nifty.org… but we won’t comment on that.” Holy hell, that was funny! I've been reading Nifty since the 90's...it is what it is.

Never had time for committee’s…too busy counting beans.

OH this was cute and funny, heartwarming. Thankfully, I guess, I never felt much of anything from my classmates. A few were good for a roll in the hay, but otherwise, that's a no and I gladly walked away from that place. The thought of attending a H.s. reunion gives me the shivers.

It was an aggressive, bureaucratic oatmeal, a shade of beige selected by a distant committee of corporate accountants who actively despised the concept of human joy. Hmm, well as a former corporate accountant, I can 100% positively say that our team ever had anything to do with picking decorations. Maybe the colors on a power point but that would be it. The despised concept of human joy, well no comment! 🤪

I have no idea why this one enjoyed this story so much but this did. I can't pronounce half the names and the other half is just a guess. Looking forward to what is next.

Thanks for that info. Keeps me reading on the right path (still shaking my head that I was reading Charlie vs. The Union of Doom before reading the previous stories in the series). With regards to Andrew & Will, I've read all 7 stories in the Carter's Saga group, and I've barely started Carter's Breach in the Andrew Carter Books group. But I don't think I've seen the Order Trilogy Books so I need to go back and look. 79 posted stories I know I've missed a lot.

What a cute cute story and so much to unpack. I absolutely love that Will started his political career as a Prime Minister representing a precinct in Ottawa to now being the president of the United States. I also love that we have the yellow oval room, and I also love that they live in the east wing. Is the dark period that they refer to a reference to the current administration? Because calling it a dark period is probably being a bit kind! At some point, I’m gonna have to go back and read the story of Will and Andrew again. I read it years ago I think on a different platform as I don’t remember being able to comment on the chapters or the story, but it was one of those stories that I could not stop reading chapter after chapter chapter after chapter. I’m very thankful that I recently stumbled back into Professor Lyndon’s story page. There is a lot of reading I have to catch up with and I’ve got to pay more careful attention so that I don’t get halfway through the latest Charlie vs. only to realize that it’s got a lot of previous stories that I need to read. That discovery was last week and was kind of funny. The best part of the whole story is that one of my favorite couples I’ve ever read about are still together! That is the happy ending I always want to see.

The former president, Carter wasn’t much of a leader at least while he was in office. However, ex- President Carter turned out to be one of the best former presidents representing this country we’ve ever had. Seeing him and ex-President Bush together more often than not just shows you that you can put differences aside for the better good. Personally, I think, losing both of these fine men was a huge loss to our country.

@Topher Lydon Jacob Carter. Any relationship to Andrew Carter? Or president Will Carter?

I somewhat feel your pain. While I can’t understand Trumps supporters failing in line like little minions. Believing everything he says as the truth. My own brother and sister think the man can do no wrong. They are the type to watch Fox News 24/7. How can we have come from the same family? Unfortunately I didn’t take the time in the 80’s to learn more. I was barely 20 voting for the first time in 1982 and for me anyway, we were still in a time where we didn’t question authority so much. I was so proud of myself back then, when I stood up to my family becoming the first to register to vote as a Republican. Of course that party looks very different now. But my uneducated mind felt if Reagan like Thatcher, that was good enough for me. Even in your 20’s you can still have very hard lessons to learn.

In my own dark history I was once a big time Reagan supporter even campaigning for him. At the time I was so firmly rooted in the back of my closet and hoping against hope that my religious values and teachings would heal me, would save me. Since Reagan and Thatcher were thick allies, I viewed her as a bright star for the English people to belief and follow. You never like to admit when you are wrong, but in this case I was wrong twice. While I didn’t completely follow their story, my husband and I met a wonderful couple last November from Wales. As often does, being from the US I stick out like a sore thumb when traveling abroad. People always want my opinion on Trump. It’s always interesting to me that someone from another country has an even lower opinion of the leaders of my country than I do, but there are those occasional exchanges that I just want to get away from these Trump supporters ASAP. Anyway, I mentioned to the couple from Wales how I use to, as in past tense, be a fan of Maggie Thatcher. This was not well received and I’m sure they were the ones who wanted away from me ASAP, at least at first. The part of the conversation I didn’t understand and fully grasp dealt with incidents/accidents/unemployment/deaths in mines in the Welsh country. Mostly I didn’t follow because I had none of the history of the events other than the few words over dinner. I did hear enough to know these wounds ran deep in this Welsh family. I sat that night wondering just exactly what did Prime Minister Thatcher do that was good for her country because all the things I knew of her were turning to shit. A lesson I learned from that encounter, these people I now consider friends, is that I know nothing especially when dealing with foreign cultures and their own history. My takeaway was to listen better before spouting off the virtues of a leader I really knew nothing about.

An absolutely beautifully written story of prevailed love. However a sad story of family betrayal, of brutality, or terror, of sacred young boys. They were an inconvenience, a dirty story, a plight on the good name of England. While nothing compares, we still see unjust treatment of others in other countries because of custom, religious convictions and the like. In my own country, the US, I see a war being waged against Transexuals. Just as people didn’t understand years ago Gay & Lesbian men and women, people today don’t understand Transexuals. We fear what we don’t understand and therefore our actions are disguised as necessary to keep the rest of the population safe. Laws regarding which bathroom you can use, laws banning participation in sports certainly seem inconsequential to those the boys of Blackwater endured, but they cut to core of our personal survival in a similar way. To our author, kudos and my deepest thanks for your time, your research, your willingness to write about a deeply troubling time. You definitely deserve something to make you smile.

I went to another camp in Germany, Buchenwald. While much much bigger, Dachau is what sticks in my mind the most. I agree the Holocaust Museum shows the terrible crimes that our country just ingnored for many years, we simply didn’t want to get involved. Walking out of the museum my mind was so cloudy and heavy with grief. The piles of combs, teeth, glasses just shook me. How anyone can go to one of the camps or the Holocaust Museum and deny its existence is someone with no conscience, no soul.

Only 1 chapter, please don’t tease us like that. I hope you are not serious.

I really needed today’s chapter. After struggling with yesterday’s revelations, this was a perfect way to pull readers back in (like we ever left).

The instant I saw the word Dachau, my mind just froze for a moment. I’ve been there. While most of it is recreation of original buildings, there were a few original structures still standing. Some of the outer fence and guard post were still there. While not original, walking through the area where the ovens were just about brought me to tears. While going inside the shower room, the same room used to gas large groups of men, women and children of all ages all at the same time, that did bring me to tears that day. I thought i knew what to expect when I visited since I had read the ‘Rise and Fall of the 3rd Reich’, but nothing can prepare you and I was mostly seeing replica buildings and staged equipment. My hope is to one day visit Auschwitz. Not because I’m crazy, well maybe I am, not because I get off on these WWII era places, but I see them are a learning tool. Anyway seeing the Cameron was using a study from Dachau did stop me in my preverbal tracks. I can’t recall if this is a real report, but from my prior learning I believe it does exist. I repeat what I’ve said previously…Cameron deserves eye-for-an-eye repercussion for the horrors he had inflicted on these boys. It’s now up to Carter and Lord Miller to use the evidence and finally take action.

I’ve thinking the same thing. I kept count, it took me reading a little and coming back 5 times to complete this chapter. This probably is by far the most brutal chapter of almost anything I’ve ever read. Probably the worst for me anyway is ‘The Rise and Fall of the 3rd Reich’. That was real, this particular story is not, but I understand this type of torture did in fact happen. I thought Vane needed a bullet to the head. with Cameron, that is the easy way out and he deserves much harsher reckoning for his sins! Maybe this is a deserving case of — An Eye For An Eye.

I’ve thought about this chapter overnight. Do I even want to read this or just skip to the end where I hope it will be better. I have faith in our author that the end of the chapter or in the next chapter that the boys will once again prevail. I guess I should say young men rather than boys, regardless of of the age of the young’s ones, the actions so far are those of young men. Starting with Nifty in the 90’s, then on to other platforms such as GA…I don’t think I’ve ever taken a collective breath of caution until today with this chapter. But the curiosity side of me won’t let me skip so I will, probably taking several breaks, but I’ll eventually read this chapter in its entirety today. Maybe I’ll mix in a few “Charlie vs.” chapters. The laughter and silliness from Charlie will definitely help with the respect this chapter deserves. Let’s begin…

Dear God I hope they don’t resort to drugs. Miller’s dad needs to have that place torn apart…but given the time period, i guess most didn’t care about abusing those homos. Carter needs to somehow foil/intervene and prevent this insanity. So I guess I thought I had finished reading the chapter, but realized after reading all the comments about chemicals that i had not…I’m horrified.

OMG, that is just heartbreaking to me. What a wonderful father, what a wonderful person to have in your corner. I think about the difficulties I had coming out, given I’m a child of the 60’s/70’s we certainly faced our share of homophobia and at that time, her in the U.S. anal intercourse was out the law in many states…now I think that had to be a caught in the act type of thing to enforce, but still that was the thinking of the times. I always feared my parents finding out more than anything. I was fearful of being tossed out or sent to one of those awful conversion camps…which compared to Blackwater would have been an improvement. Having a parent in your corner back when this story takes place is something that is hard to wrap your mind around.

Do I take from this comment, well the last sentence, that the story is not fully written. Are you releasing chapters as you write? I’m interested in your process. At the rate you are releasing these chapters I was assuming this was a completed story. Thanks.