Retired Old Men Eating out (Romeo) Volume Two

Harry Katzan Jr.

Description

Be they doctors, lawyers, professors, generals, preachers, and whomever, all retired men are the same: RETIRED. For entertainment, they have breakfast together periodically for breakfast to enjoyment and the news. ROMEO stand for Retired Old Men Eating Out.
This book is a fun easy to read BEACH READ. A reader can pick it up and start reading. It’s sharable. It’s informative. It tells how old men really are. It is a way to get together and make friends.

Sujets

• Sports
• Eating out
• Retirement
• Running
• Entertainment
• Tennis
• Automobile
• Fun
• Golf
• Social
• Fiction
• Sport

Informations

• Publié par: iUniverse
• Date de parution: 07 juin 2023
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781663253552
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

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Retired
OLD MEN EATING OUT
(ROMEO)
VOLUME TWO
 
 
 
 
A Novel
 
 
 
 
HARRY KATZAN JR.
 
 
 
 
 
 


RETIRED OLD MEN EATING OUT (ROMEO) VOLUME TWO
 
Copyright © 2023 Harry Katzan Jr.
 
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the author except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.
 
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any reference to real people, organizations, products, and places are intended to give the work a sense of reality and authenticity, and are used in a fictitious manner. All names, characters, places, dialogue, and conventions in the book are the product of the author’s imagination, except where a name and attributes are established in the literature. In summary, it is a stupid novel.
 
 
 
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ISBN: 978-1-6632-5354-5 (sc)
ISBN: 978-1-6632-5356-9 (hc)
ISBN: 978-1-6632-5355-2 (e)
 
Library of Congress Control Number: 2023910285
 
 
 
iUniverse rev. date: 06/02/2023
CONTENTS
Introduction
Main Characters in the Book
 
Chapter 1Getting Back in the Groove
Chapter 2Déjà Vu All Over Again
Chapter 3The General Gets to the Romeo Club Meeting
Chapter 4The General at Work
Chapter 5A Little Bit of Information on the General
Chapter 6The Chinese Situation
Chapter 7What is Maya Up To
Chapter 8The Team is Called to the White House
Chapter 9A Trip to The Lehman Company
Chapter 10The Team Works on the Plan
Chapter 11The General Calls Buzz in London
Chapter 12Back at the Romeo Club
Chapter 13The President’s Chinese Problem
Chapter 14The Solution
Chapter 15The Fast Exit From China
Chapter 16Financial Data Flow
Chapter 17Outsourcing and Offshoring
Chapter 18Cybersecurity
Chapter 19Bitcoin
Chapter 20Block Chain
Chapter 21Artificial Intelligence
 
Maya’s List
About this Novel
About the Author
Books by Harry Katzan, Jr.

 
 
 
 
 
 
OTHER NOVELS BY HARRY KATZAN, JR.
A Case of Espionage
Shelter in Place
Life is Good
A Tale of Discovery
Everything is Good
Retired Old Men Eating Out (Romeo)

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
For Margaret , my best girl, now and forever And Kathryn and Karen
INTRODUCTION
Matt and the General are at it again, but this time it is the Fav Five consisting of Matt, the General, Ashley, Anna, and Maya. The setting is the Romeo Club, that is, Retired Old Men Eating Out. The men meet on the first and third Wednesday of the month to have breakfast, and hopefully to discuss the news of the day and whatever else they want to talk about.
In the Romeo Club, the membership is primarily retired men but other persons, such as retired women and younger men and women are welcomed. One of the characteristics of the Romeo Club is, in some sense, all of the men are equal, after they retire. The members are doctors, lawyers, professors, company presidents, White House employees, and so forth, as long as they are residents of Sun City, an up-scale gated community adjacent to Hilton Head Island in South Carolina, a community primarily composed of wealthy people.
Matthew (Matt) Miller is a distinguished math professor at a distinguished university; the General is a retired military general who is wealthy from a prosperous business company; Ashley, Matt’s wife, is a former movie star that teaches drama at a local community college; Anna, whose given name is Marguerite Purgoine, a retired professor of creative writing; and Maya Wilson, Ashley’s quilting friend that is the wife of an Army officer killed in Viet Nam. They are the team named the Fabulous Five.
This not so little beach read takes a look at what the Fab Five and Romeo Club are up to these days. This edition is a sequel to the first edition of a book entitled The Romeo Affair .
The scene changes rapidly, but always in the scope of no violence, no sex, and no bad language. The book typifies the conventional “beach” read in that the subject matter can be read as a collection of separate stories.
This is the fifteenth book in the Matt and the General series. The characters assume their dynamic personalities as in previous tales.
The Author,
June 2023
MAIN CHARACTERS IN THE BOOK
The General – Les Miller. Former military General and Humanitarian. P-51 pilot and World War II hero.
Matthew (Matt) Miller – Professor of Mathematics. Grandson of the General. Sophisticated problem solver and strategist.
Ashley Wilson Miller – College friend of Matt Miller. Married to Matt Miller. Receiver of the National Medal of Freedom.
Marguerite Purgoine - Retired creative writing Professor and an associate of the team. Known as Anna for some unknown reason. Wife of the General.
Sir Charles (Buzz) Bunday – P-51 pilot and Army Air Force buddy of Les Miller. Member of the British Security Service. Knight of the United Kingdom.
General Clark – Mark Clark, Former Four Star General and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Appointed to be U.S. Director of Intelligence.
Kimberly Scott – The Intelligence specialist of the U.S. Has an extensive publications record.
Katherine Penelope Radford – Retired Queen of the United Kingdom and personal friend of the General.
Adam Benfield – Iranian terrorist leader known as Atalus. Spy for the U.S. and England.
Maya Wilson – Member of the Fab Five quilting group and government analyst.
END OF MAIN CHARACTERS
CHAPTER 1
GETTING BACK IN THE GROOVE
M att, the General, Ashley, Anna, and Maya arrived back in New Jersey from Sun City with only a little difficulty. The trip was boring and they didn’t feel at all like going back to New Jersey. Even the weather was bad, compared to the sunny south.
Adam Benfield, the Russian, American, English, and Iranian spy who was under surveillance by the U.S. government, was all of a sudden gone. Benfield was proud of his Mercedes S-500 luxury car and thoroughly enjoyed being a driver for important engagements of the General. He was granted residence in the States by the intelligence people. Besides he had a crush on Ashley that he got through working with her on an intelligence problem. He was well known because everything he did from an intelligence standpoint didn’t work. But a spy is a spy, and the U.S. government had a ‘watcher’ living next door. Why? Who knows. Actually, it will be obvious later.
Benfield’s next door watcher was friendly with Matt, as they both had interests in mathematics and they spoke the same language, so to speak; the language of mathematics. That’s what they say anyway. He agreed to use Matt and Ashley’s Chevy to do the driving and pick them up at the airport. Actually, there were too many people for a little Chevy, so they had to summon one of those online services that people depend on and provide a load, of complaints.
The return flight had been indeed bumpy and they were all justified in being a little grumpy having to leave Sun City and Hilton Head Island. The beach had been pleasant and the restaurants and the shopping couldn’t be beat. Matt and Ashley had their universities to attend to and that was an important consideration. Matt and the General played their last round of golf at one of the Sun City courses the morning that they left.
Once they got situated at the speed and altitude in the flight, everyone settled down. Matt liked to fly as high and as fast as he could. He loved to run the fan jets flat out as that was the way they were designed. Ashley didn’t like it, and the general and the other ladies didn’t pay any attention to what was going on.
Maya asked about Matt and Ashley’s university work schedule and Ashley just shrugged and motioned to Matt, as if to say, ‘He would figure it out’.
Maya looked over at Matt and said, “He’s too busy to talk.”
Ashley just smiled and said that Matt had the plane on autopilot and was occupied with his Rubix’s cube.
“Why the Rubix’s cube?” asked Maya. “Isn’t that for kids?”
“I don’t think so,” replied Ashley. “The General bought one for himself and one for Matt. I guess he wants to beat Matt.”
“That’s amazing,” said Maya. “He sure is awfully spry for an older gentleman.”
“He sure is,” said Anna, who overheard the conversation. “He also plays a good game of bridge and a variety of other things.”
“Do you play bridge, Maya?” asked Anna.
“I do,” said Maya. “My mother taught me when I was in high school. I haven’t had anyone to play with since.”
“Matt is a real good bridge player,” added Ashley. “His mother taught him when he was growing up, and also because she wanted him to play so they could have enough players to have a game.”