The Brown Recluse - Part 1
Preface The Brown Recluse is a work of fiction. It is coincidental if the characters resemble anyone living or dead. Such was not our intent. Some of the places depicted in the story are real, such as the Sulphur River, Morris County Texas, Chateauneuf du Pape in the Rhone Valley of France, Monte Carlo, Cannes, Nice, St. Paul de Vance, the Hong Kong Stadium, the Louis XV Restaurant, the Grande Casino, the Hotel de Paris, and the Hotel Hermitage. The model for the Northeast Texas Park described in the story is Daingerfield State Park, and it exists. Fictional places described in The Brown Recluse are Piney Springs, Mt. Mariah, and the base of Mossad Operations in Tel Aviv. They do not exist. The acts depicted in this novel are the fruits of our imagination and never happened in the real world. Acknowledgements We dedicate this novel to the members of the Tejas Club (1947-1960) of East Texas State Teachers College, living and passed. Without the p