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David and Danny were friends who reconnected in Syracuse, New York, following active duty in the army. David had been stationed stateside while Danny was in Vietnam. Neither of them knew how much they had changed during their years apart or if their friendship was still viable. That was put to the ultimate test when they signed a lease for an apartment to share in Pennsylvania where David was hired as a teacher. David was the older of the two and had graduated from college as well at the Drill Sergeant's Academy.

As I placed my bare feet on the cool, moist soil, I grabbed my garden shovel, stepped over the small fence, and soaked in the mild breeze and beautiful rays of the spring sun that rained over me. The five peppers my daughter had planted from seed had outgrown their container and needed a new home. My front yard garden was the perfect place. As I dug into the soil, placing the first plant into the ground, I felt calm. I felt peace, I felt still, I felt that this was something many people needed.

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society. In this volume we offer up a small selection of talents from the literary landscape of the American male author whose time has now come again.

David, who lives outside Philadelphia, receives a call from his best friend's doctor in California. Gordon is suffering major organ failure and is on the brink of death! Gordon, an unmarried quadriplegic, has been in a wheelchair since he was twenty-two. His life is one of isolation, fear, and relative silence, except when David visits with stories of the world.

In the first book, David worked on the fringe of the criminal world as a teenager but escaped its trappings to follow a more mainstream way of life. In Help Wanted, we catch up with David in a fast-paced escapade as he faces the results of his decision to pursue opportunities in the underworld at the same time that he is given the opportunity to redeem himself. Discover why David begins to question his direction, who walks the path with him, and where he is going next!