Magic in "The City": A San Francisco Story

The Center for Magic Carpet Studies and the National Magic Carpet Reporting Center feed the frenzy that follows the publication of flying-carpet stories by Marty Janko of Portland and Amanda Olsen of Seattle.
Some historians buy into it and think that flying carpets may have played a part in history, such as Pheidippedes’ ‘run’ from Marathon to Athens, Mohammad’s flight from Mecca to Medina, and Napoleon’s escape from Elba.
A physicist at the Livermore National Laboratory wants to get a piece of an alleged flying carpet so he can run tests on it and see if there is some alloy or resin that can somehow emit wavelengths capable of interacting with certain electro-chemical processes of our thoughts.
The American Association for the Advancement of Science dismisses all claims about flying carpets and offers ten million dollars to anyone who can bring them one. The notorious Mister Hung, kingpin of the Wah Ching syndicate in San Francisco, proceeds to offer twenty million dollars to anyone who can bring him one.
Ed Harrington, an SFPD detective nearing retirement, gets assigned the job of keeping Mister Hung from getting his hands on a flying carpet, which he thinks is absolute nonsense. But with a wife who went through a post-menopause metamorphosis and is now a full-fledged Santeria priestess with a sacrificial altar in the living room, what’s a little more nonsense? Besides, Ed is now just counting the days till retirement, when he plans to buy a big fishing boat and live by himself in the San Francisco Bay.
So Ed and his assigned partner, a flamboyant, transgender policewoman, go through the motions and stake out Mister Hung’s shop in Chinatown, where just about every nut-job in the city is bringing a rug that they claim can fly.
Could there really be a flying carpet out there? Ed is about to find out, and his skepticism is about to get blown to smithereens.
Set in San Francisco in the spring/summer of 2013, Magic in “The City”: A San Francisco Story (Book Three of “The Magic Carpet Trilogy”) is a laugh-out-loud, action-packed adventure that reaches deep for the child inside you.