Thy Bard

“David and I drove to Guangdong Province on the South China Sea Coast the next morning. We didn’t have too much trouble locating a modest house in a rural area. We parked the car, checked our silenced pistols, walked to, and then entered the house surreptitiously. Once we got inside, a sickly looking old man greeted us, ‘Hello, may I help you?’

“My phone buzzed as an urgent text from Billy Wayne came while we were eating. ‘Please turn on the TV,’ the message simply said. “I turned on the TV and immediately switched to CNN. At first I thought I had pressed the wrong button: What looked like an urban war zone appeared on the TV, so I pressed the CNN button again. The TV flickered and same scene re-appeared. I saw a three-way gun battle among what appeared to be DC police, bikers, and bodyguard-type looking Asians.