“Whoever or whatever it is that gives such things gives us
our essence at birth.
The design of this essence starts to unfold.
To watch it unfold is to live. To watch
it with confidence and
good humor is to follow the way.” The Warlord
hold munnen din og vær tålmodig
“Lies have a limited shelf-
There will be a reckoning of the two,
and it will be devastating for the liars.”
“Hold munnen din og vær tålmodig.”
Table of Contents
Prologue
Chapter 1: Goodbye Charlie (Page 1)
Chapter 2: Paint Your Wagon (Page 14)
Chapter 3: The Day the Music Died (Page 24)
Chapter 4: Six Drops of Essence of Terror, Five Drops of Sinister Sauce (Page 46)
Chapter 5: Come Down from Your Fences and Open the Gate (Page 67)
Chapter 6: Call It Like I See It (Page 84)
Chapter 7: Here Comes the Sun, And I Say It's All Right (Page 110)
Chapter 8: Ipso Facto (Page 134)
Chapter 9: Descending Dawn (Page 157)
Chapter 10: Genesis of Blades (Page 185)
Chapter 11: The Girl Who Cried Wolf (Page 221)
Chapter 12: If Only in My Dreams (Page 235)
Chapter 13: Man in the Wilderness (Page 259)
Chapter 14: Don’t Let the Sun Catch You Crying (Page 284)
Chapter 15: Honorable Intentions Never Guarantee Success (Page 294)
Chapter 16: Like Sands in The Hourglass (Page 309)
Chapter 17: In the End, There Are Two Kinds of Men (Page 329)
Chapter 18: The Cart Pulling the Horse (Page 337)
Chapter 19: The Hare and the Tortoise (Page 355)
Chapter 20: Perpetual Purgatory (Page 372)
Chapter 21: In the Clearing Stands a Boxer (Page 385)
Chapter 22: When Logic and Proportion Have Fallen Sloppy Dead (Page 408)
Chapter 23: That Big Somewhere Out There (Page 426)
Chapter 24: The Event Horizon (Page 456)
Chapter 25: Watching The Wheels (Page 477)
Chapter 26: The Big Misfire (Page 494)
Chapter 27: Zugzwang (Page 523)
Chapter 28: Soulless (Page 558)
Epilogue The Phoenix Rises (Page 570)
