El Paso Sunrise
“Kill him,” the gravelly voice said on the speaker to the cream of the Russian and Muslim terrorist assassination squad infiltrating America from Canada and on their way to El Paso to kill lawyer Steven Vandorol. Steven was leading the Texas prosecution of Federal government corruption and with national implications before the fall presidential election.
El Paso Sunrise is the first of two stand-alone novels that together tell a grand story of love, passion, intense hate, violence and horror all brought keenly alive against the intentional radical transformation of America in a Second American Civil War by progressives, Muslim radicals and the American Left from a Constitutional Republic. It is also a portrayal of a future with the literal choking of Canada, Great Britain, Europe, the Middle East, particularly the sovereign State of Israel by Islamist radicals, ISIL, Hezbollah, Hamas and the spreading cancerous malignancy of a worldwide Muslim Caliphate.
Steven Vandorol had it all but lost everything when he fell hard from grace in the ultra-rich Sunbelt. Escaping to Washington, D.C., he found himself embroiled in evil, corruption, sexual obsession and addiction but, confronting his own demons, found peace and serenity in El Paso.
Then stunning Vanessa Carson, Steven’s attorney friend and confidant amid the evil of D.C. brings her sunshine smile back into his life in El Paso and together as one, face their worst nightmares or rape, kidnapping and murder during the ultimate crises of a second American civil war started by powerful forces and only Steven and Vanessa stand in their way . . .
While El Paso Sunrise is a graphic story of evil in this world, it is also a timeless love story about goodness, faith, grace and friendship blossoming during a national emergency — a clarion call to the world to remember what truly matters — asking the question . . .
Can Steven force his own country and government to face their own demons before it’s too late?
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El Paso Sunset
Within El Paso Sunset, Steven and his friend, Vanessa Carson, face their worst nightmare of rape, kidnapping, and murder during the ultimate crisis of a Second American Civil War started by dark, sinister, and shadowy forces and only Steven and Vanessa stand in the way. El Paso Sunset is the second and continuation of two stand-alone novels that together make a story of love, passion, obsession, intense hate, pure evil, violence, and horror, all brought keenly alive against the panorama of the radical transformation of the great American Constitutional Republic.
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CHAPTER ONE, PART TWO FROM
EL PASO SUNSET
BY LOUIS BODNAR
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At half past one, she heard the garage door rambling open, car doors closing, a long pause, and then the door into the kitchen opening. “Close the garage door, Michelle.” An overweight but pretty woman in a nurse’s uniform stepped in and saw her standing right in front of her, the gun mere inches from her face. The nurse stuttered, eyes wide with terror, “Who . . .?”
And she shot her right between the eyes. Pop, pop.
The woman teetered for an instant and fell dead to the right, helped along by a slight shove. The assassin heard the garage door rambling down as the little girl came to the door, pushing her way in. “Mommy, can I have a peanut butter and jelly . . .” She saw the woman and screamed, shrieking, as the gun fired—pop, pop—right into her small face. The girl crumpled to the floor like a rag doll and died instantly.
She dragged the girl by her feet and left her beside her dead mother.
She walked back to the bar, put the Beretta on the counter, and finished eating the pear. She drank the rest of the water, put the glass in the sink, took out her cell phone, set it on the counter as well, and waited.
The cell phone rang. “Yes?” She listened, pushed end, and continued looking around, enjoying the cool air conditioning.
In fifteen minutes, she heard the garage door open again and recognized the distinct purring of the now-familiar Porsche. She got off the stool, picked up the Beretta, slowly walked to the door, and stood with her back against the wall to wait.
The door opened. “Michelle, my belle, Daddy is home!” a big man with eyebrows raised in anticipation yelled and stepped into the kitchen, with a bright, wide smile on his face. He heard a noise and turned.
And she shot him right between the eyes as well, one muffled pop. The big man absorbed the shot with eyes wide open. He stood for an instant, swayed gently, and then collapsed straight down as if his legs had disappeared from under him.
She watched the blood pool around his head for a few seconds, raised the gun again, and shot him in the chest twice—pop, pop. The muzzle stayed open; the gun was empty.
She picked up the shell casings, put them in her pocket, reloaded, chambered a round, and put the weapon in her belt against the small of her back. She stepped over the dead man and out into the garage where she pressed the door button and watched the door ramble down.
She came back in, closed and locked the inside door, glanced at the thermostat to make sure that the air conditioning was as cold as possible. It wasn’t, so she set it lower. Back in the kitchen, she finished eating the pear. As she threw the core into the garbage disposal, she turned on the tap, flipped the switch, and after a few seconds turned both off. After carefully touching up her lip gloss, she eased out through the curtain and went out the same way she came in. Walking to the side and out the gate, she removed her gloves, stuffed them in her pockets, walked down the driveway to the street and looked around again. Judging it safe, she turned left on the still deserted street and walked slowly back to her car, smiling brightly, seemingly just a teenage cheerleader walking through the neighborhood and on to Walmart.
He was educated in the United States in Oklahoma, receiving an undergraduate degree from Oklahoma State University, a Juris Doctorate from the University of Oklahoma, and was a candidate for an LLM in International and Comparative Law at Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C.
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