Blood for Blood

It is fictional yet deals with two of the greatest of all American governmental frauds the Vietnam War the drug war and their effects on ordinary Americans and patriotic soldiers It opens in prologue with a deputy police chief examining a crime scene A U S senator and four others have been shot down on the front steps of a county courthouse in a small city in northern California The deputy chief believes the senator was the primary target because he is shot in the back dead center between the shoulder blades Officers find where the shots came from and the deputy chief arrives and is led to a small empty room still smelling of burnt gunpowder The chief finds an empty cartridge case in the caliber 300 Winchester Magnum With this he remembers many years before where a similar rifle cartridge was used not in defense but to deliberately ambush law enforcement personnel on a marijuana plantation raid