Edward Kendrick

Mick Hawk awakens in an alley covered with blood from a head wound, with no memories other than his first name. According to Shorty, the homeless man who found him, he was holding a battered driver's license, so they go in search of the owner with no luck.<br><br>Then a man approaches them on the street. His name is Richard Wolfe, and he claims he and Mick are lovers. After Richard convinces Mick he's telling the truth, the three men set out to discover who wants Mick dead and why. A difficult task, as Mick has yet to regain his memory.<br><br>One suspect is Mick's older brother, Trenton, who manages one of Mick's clubs and resents the fact their father gave them to Mick instead of him. Another is the man on the driver's license, who works for Trenton. Or ...? All they have to do is figure it out, before someone tries again to take Mick out of the picture permanently.

Hawk and Wolfe

“Yeah, I’m beginning to. First off, the attack happened in an alley. Why was I there? To meet someone? Wouldn’t I have told you what was going on if that was the case, Richard?”


“I’d hope so,” Richard replied wryly.


“Me, too. But say I didn’t for some reason. I’m in the alley, and if I was waiting for someone, I’d have been real wary of anyone who approached me, and on the defensive. But I didn’t fight back when I was attacked. They hit me and like we’ve said, from the amount of blood they probably thought they’d killed me. For damned sure I wouldn’t have stood there and let that happen.”


“We talked about maybe you’d been drugged,” Shorty said. “If you were, then, yeah, you wouldn’t have been able to fight.”


Mick lifted a shoulder. “Just one way to explain why I didn’t resist whoever attacked me.”


“Unless it was someone you knew and trusted, like Andy,” Richard said.


Chapter 17