Rogue's Gallery

The doctrine of "don't get mad---get even" was alive and well in the minds of two retired Police Captains, Amos Rogue and Felix Kilner.

Throughout their careers, they had enforced the law honestly and diligently while watching those with the financial and political clout beat the system and walk away laughing, if not richer. Those with mob connections would never even reach the indictment stage.

Amos Rogue kept a photo gallery of these perpetrators pasted on his apartment refrigerator as his personal rogue's gallery to constantly remind him that they had beaten the system.

After Amos and Felix retired, all of the frustrations and deep-seated resentment that plagued them for years began to surface. Their careers were strangely unfulfilled because the job wasn't finished. After a while, they decided to do something about it so they sat around making plans on how to correct the situation.

They chose to test their theory by actually putting one plan involving one notorious individual to the test. It quickly turned out to be so easy that they decided to drop the test and really do it. Their strong compulsion for retribution took over. Both divorced and with no obligations to anyone, they embarked on a road to correct the injustices themselves. Step by step, they made their way through the rogue's gallery.

The question was, can a series of disappointments in life cause men to turn into assassins? The answer is that it might if two perfectly sane people practiced an honorable profession for many years and suffered numerous indignities and rejections along the way. Can the frustration eventually ingrain itself in their minds so deep that it will become an obsession? That might sound a bit incredulous, but it did in this case and that's what this story is all about.

The story is structured where each chapter covers one event with fishing and hunting marking the end of each adventure. How they did it will rivet you to their story.