Download or read book The Opening Salvo written by Stephen A. Roddewig and published by Stephen A. Roddewig. This book was released on 2024-09-27 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The chain-smoking private eye of noir is teleported to the 2020s. Some men want to take over the world. Others want to watch it burn. But those men aren’t Dick Winchester. No, his goal is much simpler: to take his underground food delivery service into the mainstream and overthrow the app-based fat cats dominating Arlington, Virginia. By force, if necessary. Follow Dick as he fights to make a name for himself in the digital age of convenience. And watch as he manages to make an enemy out of just about everyone, from local bar owners to the military-industrial complex. Fortunately for Dick, he never goes anywhere without his oldest and closest friend: his trusty Smith & Wesson revolver. Will Dick succeed? How many empty whiskey bottles will be left in his wake? And will he and his poetry collection ever unseat Maya Angelou as the greatest American poet?