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Jamiila grabbed Tahliil’s arm and dragged him into the study. “Children, please turn off the television. Your grandfather promised to join Asad and me for a cruise on the river, so we’re all going. We’ve so much to discuss before the wedding!”
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Austin, Texas
Sam Lee stepped out of his three-bedroom ranch in a quiet neighborhood in Austin, Texas. A new manager for Samsung at their nearby chip plant, he rated a company car. Nothing exotic—he drove a blue Kia Sorento.
“Hurry, children or your father will be late for work.” Janet helped Jay and Kevin with their books and lunchboxes. Once she shooed them out the door, she grabbed her shopping bag and locked the house door behind her.
Sam glanced at his family and smiled. Time has changed things for the better. We’re away from the madman in Pyongyang, and my family is blossoming.
After his family joined him in the car and secured their seatbelts, he backed out of the driveway, another suburban family commuting to their daily activities.
About Randall Krzak
Randall Krzak is a U.S. Army veteran and retired senior civil servant, spending almost thirty years in Europe, Africa, Central America, and the Middle East. His residency abroad qualifies him to build rich worlds in his action-adventure novels and short stories. Familiar with customs, laws, and social norms, he promotes these to create authentic characters and scenery.
He penned A Dangerous Occupation, a winning entry in the August 2016 Wild Sound Writing and Film Festival Review short story category. His first novel, The Kurdish Connection, was published in 2017.
He is currently working on the third novel in the series, Carnage in Singapore. His creative enterprise delved even further into the treacherous sphere of the drug cartel in South America, expanding the manuscript, A Cartel’s Revenge, into a future series.
Randall holds a general Master in Business Administration (MBA) and a MBA with an emphasis in Strategic Focus, both from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland. He and his wife, Sylvia, and five cats are transitioning from the United States to Scotland. In addition to writing, he enjoys hiking, reading, candle making, pyrography, and sightseeing.
Social Media
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Acknowledgements
Many thanks to the folks at Solstice Publishing for giving me an opportunity to share my work and for the guidance throughout the publishing process, especially K.C. Sprayberry, Palvi Sharma, KateMarie Collins, and Melissa Miller.
Dangerous Alliance would not be a reality without those who helped me along my journey including: Charles Brass, Oliver F. Chase, John L. DeBoer, Rikon Gaites, D. Gesalt, Preston Holtry, Sylvia Krzak, the Alpha to Omega Review Group, Russell F. Moran, M.D. Neu, Craig Palmer, the Roundtable Pals, Johnathan Pongratz, Mike and Beth Rickerman, Barbara Russell, B. Douglas Slack, Les Stahl, Jeff and Sharon Walby, AJ Wallace, as well as other reviewers from The Next Big Writer and Scribophile. Many thanks!
Randall Krzak, Dangerous Alliance
