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Metamorphosis in Blue

by Richard D. Ward

202 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #01-0544; ISBN 1-55369-142-3; US$21.50, C$27.95, EUR18.20, £12.60

The story of a successful New York police detective who loses it all -- family, career, money -- only to return in the most surprising manner.

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About the Book

A highly successful, veteran police detective is made to testify against fellow cops. He's forced to retire, he loses his pension, his family, and is then caught up in a bank heist. Wounded in the shoot-out, he is taken to the hospital, where he limps away with millions hidden in his leather trench coat. Find out how, in the fascinating police drama Metamorphosis In Blue.

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About the Author

Richard D. Ward served three tours of duty in Viet Nam while completing nine years of service in the United States Navy. After traveling extensively throughout the far east he wanted to go to Europe. The Navy only offered him Rota, Spain, which seemed remote to most of central Europe, so Richard got out and joined the United States Army, serving 11 years in the service before retiring at age 37. He had the pleasure of spending a total of 7 years stationed in and traveling throughout Europe. He then spent the next 3 years going to college full time obtaining an AA degree from Potomac State College in his hometown of Keyser, WV and a BS from Frostburg State University, Frostburg, MD. His services were then needed as a Legalization Adjudicator for the Department of Justice when the Government had the Amnesty program in 1987. After the program was over Richard went back to graduate school at Frostburg and then on to a 20-year career with the Department of Defense. Richard has used these 40 years of experience and travels with the Government to make this an exciting and very different style of novel.

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From Chapter 7: Back to Reality/Dirty Trick

He scrunched the note and tossed it into the trashcan. He leaned forward to pick up the box and spotted a tube of super glue and a tin of sardines on top. The sardines had been in his desk for years, as a matter of fact, they were in the desk when he was assigned to the squad twelve years ago.

The tube of super glue had been bought a few weeks back. He unscrewed the cap to the glue and quickly went throughout the room gluing the handsets to the phone bases. He then paused, smiled, reached into the box and opened the antique sardines and the smell almost knocked him down.

He put on a pair of rubber gloves, used for crime scenes, and took out a roll of scotch tape. He went throughout the room, taping pieces of sardine under drawers, behind pictures, in typewriters, and on plants. Van continued to hide pieces above light fixtures, under chairs, behind and in file cabinets, inside the smoke detector, and many other places.

When the sardines were all gone, he carried the tin into the Captain's office and poured the oil left over into the sides of the Captain's chair. Once the idiots shunning him for doing the right thing smelled the rotting sardines, they would curse the day they left the squad room empty!

He picked up the seven-line phone on the Captain's desk and dialed every number in the squad and then jerked the cord out of the wall. Laughing, he carefully removed the gloves and tossed them into the Captain's metal water pitcher. With every phone ringing in the squad room Van picked up his possessions and headed for room 304, whistling as he went.

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