"This place is a jungle."
Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara describing the Pentagon around 1962
With unpredictable violence and tension, the adventure stories of Patrick W. Burke read like big-budget movies with independent scriptwriters. Wild, searing, and ultimately and shockingly human, each of the stories he presents here keeps us off-guard until their final, unseen conclusion.
Patrick looks up at his quote and says, "The irony is just too much to pass without comment. Here is a man who- besides being the author of our Vietnam strategy -spent his entire career trying to quantify intangibles, expressing frustration, anger, maybe even a little bit of fear about the one place that typifies his thinking.
"I enjoy writing stories that have action with a tinge of rot. Like a roller coaster with a rusty foundation; will it hold one more time, letting the unsuspecting patrons live? Or will this trip be the last one, sending its riders to a quick, violent death as it collapses on itself? Stories that have people hell bent on the destruction of their target, bullets flying all over the place, and exploding bodies. I especially enjoy making characters that are corrupt, at some level.
"I have spent a lot of time in the military, and overseas. I live in a small city in Northern California (no, it's nowhere near LA)." Drop him a line at onecal3@saber.net.
Patrick's works here at Unlikely Stories are:
2001:
Timing is everything
Domestic Violence
Final Run (availible as an Acrobat file)
Because Final Run is quite long, an Adobe Acrobat file is provided so that you might conveniently print it out. Please understand that Patrick W. Burke owns the copyright on Final Run and you do NOT have permission to distribute it. In order to use the Acrobat file, you will need the Adobe Acrobat Reader, a free download.