Someone or some group is out to remove Detective Rage from the playing field permanently. Several earlier attempts were cheap shots because that is what they could afford. But the last one was an expensive attempt to bring down an FBI jet with her in it.Detective Rage and Sergeant Jones find a bomb under her jeep in the police garage. That had the Inspector Strong sending her and Sergeant Jones away, far away. Searching through about 100 cases Detective Rage had worked on only adds...

The central human brain has 27 feeders and only 9 receptors and they do not touch. It is an outstanding question as how the correct protein is manufactured, moved to, and then taken by one of the receptors. If not correctly, the color red would taste sweet.Kathy is a lab. tech studying this question at an Institute. She 'spaces' out and requires medical treatment. In a comma she is brain scanned. The doctor doing the brain scan tries to kidnap her for his studies. Escaping the hospi...

Someone is stealing diamonds, thousands of carets and returning most of them for a very small finder's fee. No diamond merchants are pressing charges. A huge purchase was made and then 80% were sold at a loss but the rest were kept. Inspector Strong in a Chief's meeting noted, "Someone is inspecting the diamonds and maybe keeping what they want." Robbery is all over this, but it leads no place.Someone tries to recycle an empty whiskey bottle. The bottle owner stabs several people tr...

Rage wants to go fishing away from the crowds and brew some sagebrush tea. She drags Jones along for company and he makes a good pack animal. To get away from the crowds she decides to go into the Montana high country and even better a more or less restricted area to everyone.It takes Colonel Hill to deliver them into Montana and another plane into the area she has chosen. The fish and animals have not seen a human for maybe 100 years. Things are going well until someone or somethin...

Why is Inspector Strong's homicide team turned to the food business to make money, Detective Rage has turned into a Blond making $45 an hour. Detective Smith is a chef in a commercial kitchen. Inspector Strong is the cashier. Sergeant Jones is the delivery man and part time bus driver. Master Sergeant Tree shows up and while helpful, Detective Rage is not happy with the ways she looks at Sergeant Jones.They need to serve food to high school kids, and fifty 18-wheelers when they show...

An archeological dig has a boundary dispute with the Goshute Indian nation over reservation lands in Utah. Doctor Henry wants and even demands to dig on Indian lands. He does not want to believe the survey markers the government has. He is forced to pay for another survey which only confirms the original markers. This makes him even madder and is vengeful over the matter and will not forget they wronged him. He always takes credit for all the noteworthy finds even when he is not there. He ...

A barking dog complaint is sent to the Seattle Patrol section to handle. Patrolman Samuel Jones pulls up to the house and has heard the dog barking for the last block. He knocks on the front door where the dog is currently barking out back. The front door opens a crack. A little old, gray haired lady looks up at him, "Sonny, you need to keep your dog outside. He is not getting into my house. Now be off."The Patrolman calls Janette Rage, a female Homicide Detective to help with the l...

The national weather bureau sees a quick flash on a weather screen. Weeks later they see another one in the mid-Atlantic Ocean. The Navy is interested but can not track it, even when they can see it. The Navy brings together many civilians to help them. What they stumble upon is a huge solar flare about to happen.Everyone's attention is now on the flare and they forget the flash. The flare will destroy most satellites and last for days or weeks. The President nationalizes most indus...

The 'Madam's' Satellite control center in her Seattle penthouse has found a delivery of drugs being made on the coast of Mexico. Her personal assistant Solviegn is following the delivery. The DEA satellite has a hole in its surveillance, and the hole is being used to make the delivery.The Madam will do all she can to interfere with the delivery but also inflict as much as damage as possible to the drug ring. She brings in her two other-girl office assistants to prepare the evidence ...

Detective Rage and Sergeant Jones after their shooting date, skip the watering hole and go rock climbing. First they need to stop at Rage's home for their gear, and she is driving. They find a delivery truck in her driveway, but she is not expecting anything.Will they get out of her house before the package blows? They take her to the hospital after the explosion and she is wondering about watching submarine races as Jones drives her to Yakima for safety.Why is the Navy so up...

A typical spring day in Seattle, it is raining sideways. The ferries are having thefts of all kinds. Detective Rage and officer Jones are fresh faces and should be able to arrest a few and chase the others north.They go on board as young lovers and fade into the ugly gray paint job. They have several suspicious people in the car parking area but nothing else. Rage handles a pickpocket and a sudden wave causes his head to hit the steel wall. They turn him over to the first mate.

In the far west is a used car lot, known as Slim Sams. The cars are all used, and most people would junk them. That is where most of his cars come from. When they leave his shop, they are built to last. He lives in a trailer on the lot and has two employees. He just makes the weekly payroll.On morning before the lot opens, a buyer is pounding on the door. A business dressed young man is disturbing Slim Sam. After the coffee is made Sam wants to take him out to kick a few tires.