Reverend's Prey
Mike Talon is five years old when he is dragged kicking and screaming from his grandmother’s house by the Reverend John Krumins and taken to The Rodding Home for Boys in the countryside east of Seattle.
For the next ten years, he adjusts to living in an institution, and the clan rule that guides life among sixty youths ranging in age from five to eighteen.
His relationship with the superintendent, the Reverend Krumins, is one of hostility and loathing as Mike witnesses his brutality against some of the boys.
Mike suspects the Reverend is involved in the disappearance of boys, explained as run-aways. When his best friend, Tom, is said to have run away, he’s knows he’s right.
Setting up a nightly vigil, he catches the Reverend and some friends abusing boys in the Home’s barn, but he is caught spying and runs for his life to the streets of Seattle where he learns to survive with a group of homeless youths.
Tormented by what he knows, Mike finally confides in an undercover Seattle cop. After checking out his story, Marino talks the Chief into a stakeout on the Home using Mike as the bait to draw the men out, with a cop on the inside for added protection.
With the investigation going nowhere, Mike decides to force Krumins’ hand, a move that threatens his life as Krumins’ henchmen take him to the barn.
CYA - Covet Your Assets
Running a
business is a bit like herding cats. The average CEO/manager has her/his hands
full with the daily problems that plague any enterprise, but if everyone in the
company is helping to manage the company assets in a way that points the company
to greater sales and profits, then the leaders have anywhere from a handful to
a few thousand partners in making their business successful; CYA offers that
opportunity.
Like the cement
that binds bricks together to form a wall, CYA forges a bond between many of
the modern theories for running a company with a new way of looking at all the
assets in a company, offering the leadership and those working in the company a
way to focus their attention in the right areas to insure the maximum
utilization of all the assets.
CYA is designed
to be flexible, simple, and to help managers and owners engage the people in
plugging the leaks that result from under-utilization of assets.
In one of the
shortest manuals ever written for business, a new philosophy is born that
guides everyone in a company toward a collaborative effort that reduces waste,
increases involvement and commitment, and leads to increased customer satisfaction,
sales, and profits.