Storm Runners
Authors: T. Jefferson Parker
For those who bring the water
Marching Bands and Arabian Nights
Stromsoe was in high school when he met the boy…
Days after the blast he briefly wavered up from unconsciousness…
It took Stromsoe a full month to find the strength…
That evening, Dan Birch, Stromsoe’s good friend and former narco…
By noon Stromsoe and Susan were back in his courtyard,…
They came to the ocean at Fifty-second Street and turned…
The Heart of the X
Stromsoe sat in Dan Birch’s Irvine office and looked out…
By 4 P.M. Frankie’s video team had set up on…
Mike Tavarez surveyed the exercise yard and listened to the…
That night at ten Brad Lunce called him out. Lunce…
That night at ten Brad Lunce called him out. Lunce…
Frankie pushed open the French doors to let in the…
Stromsoe broke into a run, swinging his arms and getting…
At ten-thirty the next morning Frankie Hatfield identified John Cedros…
Water and Power
John Cedros stood with his shoulders stooped and his head…
Cedros signed in at the Pelican Bay visitors’ room and…
Frankie’s uncle Ted drove the white long-bed pickup truck through…
The three of them sat in the beach chairs in…
Mike Tavarez lay on his bunk and listened to the…
Early the next day Stromsoe bought rich food and good…
It was almost eight by the time Stromsoe got down…
People of your ilk usually have to deal with Security…
Stromsoe trailed Frankie that evening and night on her rounds…
Lejas sat in a big avocado tree watching the changing…
Late Saturday afternoon the rain began to fall. It was…
Back at Frankie’s house the cops separated them. Frankie got…
Pistoleros
Birch handed Stromsoe a faxed copy of the Pelican Bay…
John Cedros looked through the peephole of his Azusa home.
In the cold northern silence of the Crescent City Travelodge,…
Tavarez was waiting in the visitation room when Stromsoe was…
Choat stepped in front of the maître d’ to guide John…
That night Brad Lunce let Tavarez into the library and…
The next evening Stromsoe sat outside Frankie’s office at Fox…
The sky was bowed with clouds when their jet touched…
At seven that evening Stromsoe waited in the hushed immensity…
In the late-night twilight of Pelican Bay Prison, Lunce gave…
Monday morning John and Marianna Cedros were packing for the…
At first light Stromsoe was sitting in Frankie Hatfield’s living…