Foreword
There is nothing that makes a man seethe more than the thought of being rejected by a woman, particularly when she leaves him for another man.
Even though Jason Bogart was by no means a rich man, he was indeed a proud man, and when he recognized that the woman he had thought so much of had cast her lot in the direction of another man, largely because of that other man's superior economic situation, he felt as if he had really been ruthlessly betrayed.
The rugged construction worker thought about inflicting physical harm on the man for whom his love had rejected him, and then considered beating up the woman herself in frustration, but ultimately decided to forgo those two extreme measures. He instead brooded, wondering just what he was going to do in the wake of sustaining heartbreak.
It was not until he discovered that his two drinking and bowling buddies, Charley Wicker and Darrell Oglesby, had been in similar circumstances that a plan began to take shape. The more that they ruminated on and lengthily discussed their unique but, in the final analysis, common dilemmas, the more infuriated they became.
"Something just has to be done!" became the united phrase that shaped their embittered course of action. Letting their emotions be their dictatorial guide, these three men threw caution to the winds and embarked on a plan as dangerously bold as it was dangerously unwise.
Revenge is a negative emotion, and its angry, devil-may-care application is likely to bring about frustration and suffering for all concerned in the final analysis. Had Jason Bogart and his friends analyzed their projected course of action with less heated emotion and more reason then it is highly unlikely that they would ever have taken such an unwise path. But a man who feels he has been unjustly scorned can often reject reason in favor of an unwise and unsafe course of action, which was what ultimately happened in the case of Jason Bogart and his friends, a course from which they were ultimately to inflict such costly revenge.
The Publisher