Table of Contents
Chapter 1	Low Water Bar	3
Chapter 2	The Bargain	11
Chapter 3	The Hunt	15
Chapter 4	Strategy	25
Chapter 5	Don't Underestimate
Chapter 6	Next Round	57
Chapter 7	Double Dealing	66
Chapter 8	Attack	68
Chapter 9	Who Caught Who	86
Chapter 10	Upping the Ante	106
Chapter 11	Unrewards	122

 

 

Chapter 1- Low Water Bar

"Well look at it this way, Mad Jack, at least you got out with your life. There ain't no glory in going down with your ship, for crapsakes!" says Third Eye-the-bartender as he clangs down on the cash register and then reaches up to clang a ship's bell above the cash in the dim light of Low Water Bar.

"Yeah, I guess you're right, Third-Eye," blares Mad Jack in a fog-horn voice twisting around in his seat like he can't stand to be sitting on something that doesn't move. Red barbed-wire hair struggles to get out from under his baseball cap. A red T-shirt covers most of his belly and it broadcasts, "the Lucky One" in black letters over all the chest. "But dammit to hell and back," he blares on, "seems like I don't have a home nor a county—it hurts like hell to lose the Shaggy Lady."

"Well, Mad Jack, you always got a bar to come to," winks the black-bearded, bald-headed, buggy-eyed tender.who looks at Mad Jack nearly sideways, which is to say, straight on, for him.

"I gotta get a boat," growls the big man on the other side of the bar as he runs meaty fingers through his red barbed wire coils.