"Owen?" A deep voice asked when I answered the phone and said, "Hello."

"This is he."

"I'm Jack. Clark wanted me to call you. He said it was urgent."

"Yes. I need your help. My sister is dating this low-life degenerate cocksucker, and I...."

"Owen, stop for just a second. This is not a conversation I want to have over a cellular phone. Can we talk in person? Is that okay with you?"

"Yes, that's fine," I said.

"I live fifteen minutes from Clark's. I'll be there in ten," he said and hung up the phone.

He was a man of his word and arrived at the gate nine minutes...