Q'Zids - The Devils

About the Book

THE SAGA OF FELIX THE CAT This story really started long ago and far away, 1968 in Yemen. Special Forces Captain Jake Webber led a series of forays into the revolution torn Yemen to smuggle needed funds in gold from the Saudis to the Royalist forces. He headed a team of three Special Air Service troops: Lieutenant Tom Smyth, and Sergeants Harry Davis and Dick Lancaster. The operation was overseen by a mysterious Saudi Colonel. After three successful missions the fourth met disaster and Harry Davis was killed in circumstances that altered the lives of the survivors and bonded them together in a feeling of moody guilt. Twenty-five years later Jake and the Englishmen are disturbed from their attempt to participate in normal lives, Jake is retired and is spending his time reading and drinking. The SAS men are still in the service with Smyth the Commander of the 22nd SAS regiment and Lancaster as his Sergeant-Major. Then the past catches up with them and they return to Yemen to recover part of the golden treasure. They reluctantly allow Jake’s off and on friend Robin Black to join them. In a wild and bloody adventure (The Red Wolves) they emerge rich and emotionally healed from the death of Harry. The next year Jake’s entourage sets of on a new adventure with the addition to their team of two women, Karla and Kate Davis who were Harry’s wife and daughter and are now romantically involved with the two Englishmen. In addition they are joined by Kate’s Graduate School Advisor. Of course Robin is in hot pursuit of Jake Webber, who earned the sobriquet of Felix the Cat in Viet-Nam. Events catch up with the men and women. Terrorism in Bosnia spills into Columbus Ohio and soon the group is on the way to retrieve historical documents. With The Colonel’s help the group infiltrates Bosnia and encounters a young Gypsy who was orphaned by the terrorists and is engaged in a campaign of revenge. After finding the Gypsy and the Princip Diaries Jake’s little conducts a fighting withdrawal that ends in the stealing of a plane and flying out of Yugoslavia after The Colonel’s son shoots down a pursuing plane. Robin survives the trip despite being shot and almost bleeding to death. In Columbus Robin achieves her twin goals, she gets Jake to agree to marriage and lures the old warrior into her bed. This story is told in “The Serbian Black Hand.” In Q’Zids - The Devils, the reader will find Robin finalizing her plans for the wedding. It has not been easy for her to get Jake to take that final last step. Just when everything seems to be in place they learn that the man who saved them in Bosnia, the Colonel’s son, has been shot down in northern Iraq and is being held for ransom by a strange group, the Q’Zids. The Q’Zids are rumored to be blood thirsty savages who no one knows much about or can communicate with them. Without hesitation Robin and Jake accept the task of rescuing Rashid. Soon a group of six is ready to venture from Turkey into Iraq and ransom the pilot. The first problem arises when in Turkey two Iraqi security agents attack Robin and then more of them try to steal the gold. Karoll and The Professor stowaway and go into Iraq with the others. The party meets and fights with Kurd brigands. In the meantime Rashid has learned personally that the term blood thirsty is a literal not a figurative description of the Q’Zids. Without spoiling the story too much it is safe to say that the final chapter is a wedding like none other found in fiction or real life.

About the Author

Jim Weaver is an interesting person. He vacillates between wishing to be a jock and a scholar. Jim coaches a National Champion Prep School swimming team and qualified for the Olympic Trials. He was a National Merit Finalist at Columbus University School, lettering in football, basketball, and swimming. Jim swam for two years at West Point. He earn his BA and MA at Ohio State and completed his course work for his Ph.D. at Lehigh. Jim wrote the Felix the Cat books as a learning exercise, each better that the previous story, with excitement galore.