Back The Collector Series: The Collector By Charles Bird (R.I.P.)

Last Updated: March 20, 2023
Prologue Josiah Meister was a lonely, unhappy old man at age 65. His only child, Josiah Meister, Jr. had just been returned to him in a body bag from Iraq and he was returning to his West Texas ranch after burying his boy, Captain Josiah Meister, United States Army. He had lost the boy's Mother in childbirth and had raised his son on their 6,000-acre cattle and horse ranch. Josiah Meister, Jr., always known just as Jr., had gone away to college at Texas A&M and then joined the United States Army to "do his duty". As he had in college, Jr. excelled in the Army, winning early promotion and commanding a battle tank company. The two had been extremely close, more like brothers than Father and Son, the Father cringed every time the telephone rang, but it was the arrival of a black car and a tall Army Officer stepping out of it that nearly crumpled him to the floor. He knew, before the officer ever knocked on his door what the message was. Now, as he drove back to his empty home, it was as if he had died himself.

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