Cleas Moon (A John Ray Horn Thriller, Book 1)

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After four months, the Navy spit me out into the fleet as a newly commissioned ensign. No one ever fired a shot at me. I learned a few things about leadership and being organized. I learned to navigate by the stars and how to dock a 2,ton destroyer alongside a pier. I saw nuclear explosions light up the skies over a tiny dot near the equator called Christmas Island. And best of all, I got to go to sea--to Hawaii and Kingston [Jamaica], Curacao, and Cartagena, and lots of other places. Conrad was right. The ocean gets to you.

I went up to the bow and leaned over, listening to the rush of the water. I was alone. Behind me were the running lights on the superstructure, but ahead was mostly blackness. All I could see at first were the stars, including the Southern Cross.

Then I noticed that the bow wake gave off its own light, from billions of tiny phosphorescent creatures disturbed by the passage of the ship. We were making our own light in the water. It was magical. JKP: How long were you in the Navy? Most of my jobs involved weapons of one kind or another.

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Before the aforementioned nukes came along to bedevil me, I spent a lot of time working on what the Navy calls anti-submarine warfare. ASW is a fascinating kind of chess match between surface ships and submarines, with each adversary trying to out-game the other, the subs hiding in the depths and the ships trying to smoke them out. JKP: Did you consider making the military a career?

Do you have any distinct recollections of that place? So, to make Gitmo duty bearable, the Navy set up all the comforts of home--golf course, movie theater, bowling alley, swimming pool. My memories, as you can guess, are pleasant ones.

The memories of some of those living there now will be very different. And some have said that it might be good to have a less homogeneous mix of people in the military, rather than just the gung-ho volunteers; that more diversity in the ranks might help people come out of the military with a more well-rounded view of the world.

What do you think about that? In Starship Troopers , Robert Heinlein came up with the notion that military service should be a prerequisite for the right to vote.

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Sometimes I think the old curmudgeon might have been onto something. JKP: Were you a big Heinlein fan? EW: I discovered him in junior high, and he was a hugely entertaining writer. All of his characters seemed smart and naturally funny, and I liked the way the dialogue snapped and crackled and moved the plot along. Then, later, I saw that some of his books actually expressed ideas. One of them, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress , recasts the notion of the American Revolution in future terms, with moon colonists trying to throw off the weight of government from Earth.

Starship Troopers raises the question of the importance of the military in a free society. Too bad the movie stunk. Is that right? And did you go to Northwestern already figuring that a life in the media was your destiny? How deep was your interest in journalism? It turned out to be a pretty good choice. The learning curve, as one can imagine, was steep.

In that kind of situation, you learn to deal with rejection real fast. You learn to fail, then try again. You learn that journalism is more about shoe leather than about writing editorials in an ivory tower. What were your impressions of Chicago? EW: I had almost no image of Chicago before I went there. When I first arrived, I found it a little overwhelming. I was lost for a while, and the people seemed distant. The climate is hard to take--brutal in the winter, hot and muggy in the summer.

Then, little by little, I settled in. I got a job and took an apartment in an area called Old Town , in a building dating back to the early s. My place was a small, fourth-floor walkup, with a rickety balcony overlooking a courtyard and a view of the downtown skyline. Everything I needed, it seemed, was within walking distance. A block away was the Second City cabaret, and one of the second-floor apartments in my building was used by some of the performers.

I made friends. And pretty soon I found that I liked Chicago. A lot. JKP: You now live in L.

But do you visit Chicago periodically? Do you miss it? I miss the city-ness of the place, the real skyline, the world-class architecture, the neighborhoods made for walking, the parks, the lake, the deep-dish pizza. So she came with me to Bouchercon. We walked a lot, ate a lot, saw a lot. For starters, get out of town.

Back in Chi-town, visit the Museum of Science and Industry, guaranteed to bring out the kid in everyone. The museum is housed in the only building left from the Columbian Exposition of Walk along North State and Astor streets amid a wonderful collection of mansions and townhouses, most of them now broken up into apartments.

Afterward, stroll around Grant Park, between Lake Michigan and the Loop, and take in the sight of that incomparable skyline I mentioned. I recommend Pizzeria Due on North Wabash. Wright once worked for the Chicago Tribune. Was that your dream job? Or had you been dreaming about doing something different with your bright new degree? JKP: Chicago journalists have a reputation for being as hard-nosed and dogged as their Manhattan counterparts.

Did you discover myriad great journalistic characters during your time at the Trib? By the time I went to work there, things had calmed down considerably. But it was still a colorful scene, with an assortment of characters. Drinking was the favorite sport at all the papers, and there were plenty of watering holes in the neighborhood. At one of them, my city editor got into a fistfight with one of his own reporters, who was soon out of a job. Harry Romanoff, night city editor of the afternoon American , was notorious for calling up cops at crime scenes and impersonating officials such as the county coroner to get them to spill details.

I have fond memories of a gent named Roland J. Spokely, who mentored me on the local copy desk at the Trib. Spoke, as we called him, had worked in newsrooms all over America and was in his twilight years by the time he came to rest in Chicago. He also took lunches that were mostly liquid and was noticeably happier in the latter part of his shift. On the day I joined the desk as the greenest of copy editors, he did not deign to speak to me. JKP: How long did you stay at the Trib? And what sorts of subjects did you cover for that newspaper?

Was it a satisfying experience?

EW: Chicago at the time had four daily papers--two morning, two afternoon. The morning Tribune was the biggest of the four, housed in a Gothic tower that loomed over North Michigan Avenue just north of the river.

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The competition among the four was intense, and it was important not to be beaten by your rival--in our case, the Sun-Times. I spent a couple of years as a junior reporter, covering meat-and-potatoes stories, before I decided that editing appealed to me more. For the next several years I worked as a copy editor on the local desk, as a night picture editor, makeup editor, and then assistant news editor. In this last job, I laid out the news pages in the front section of the paper for the final edition every night. It was fast-paced and exciting; it involved seat-of-the-pants editing and making quick news judgments.

Working at the Tribune , while it lasted, was one of the most fun things I ever did.

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