Fighting the Fuzzy-Wuzzy: A Poker Boy story

By Dean Wesley Smith

When the world is threatened, what's a poker player to do? When a blue Searchlight appears and tells you the world is about to be destroyed, it's hard to keep a straight face. Until you discover how really, really serious the threat is. Can a simple superhero save the world? Sometimes playing poker is the answer for just about everything.

Bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith is the author of over ninety novels and hundreds of short stories. Not only has he written for Pocket Book in the Star Trek universe, but did the only two original Men in Black novels for Bantam Books. He has been an editor and a publisher and is currently writing thrillers under another name.

At last count he has over seven million books in print.

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• Language: English
• Publisher: WMG Publishing
• Release date: Jan 26, 2011
• ISBN: 9781458097415

Dean Wesley Smith

Considered one of the most prolific writers working in modern fiction, USA TODAY bestselling writer, Dean Wesley Smith published far over a hundred novels in forty years, and hundreds of short stories across many genres. He currently produces novels in four major series, including the time travel Thunder Mountain novels set in the old west, the galaxy-spanning Seeders Universe series, the urban fantasy Ghost of a Chance series, and the superhero series staring Poker Boy. During his career he also wrote a couple dozen Star Trek novels, the only two original Men in Black novels, Spider-Man and X-Men novels, plus novels set in gaming and television worlds.

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Fighting the Fuzzy-Wuzzy

A Poker Boy Story

Dean Wesley Smith

Fighting the Fuzzy-Wuzzy

Copyright © 2012 by Dean Wesley Smith

Published by WMG Publishing

Cover Design copyright © 2012 WMG Publishing

Cover art by Dejan Veljkovic/Dreamtime.com

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Fighting the Fuzzy-Wuzzy

A Poker Boy Story

Chapter One

I first met Wolfgang Sucker two nights before the great Fuzzy-Wuzzy war.

Now, as Poker Boy, I meet my share of strange beings, mostly just people sitting around poker tables as I try to earn enough to get to the next place where I have to do my superhero thing and rescue someone or fight the bad guy. (And sometimes along the way I even save a dog or two, but that’s not part of my job description. It just sort of happens.)

But Wolfgang Sucker was one of the stranger people who ever walked up to me and asked for help.

Honestly, I didn’t see him until he was standing in front of me. I was standing against one of the large stone columns in the main lobby of the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino on the Strip in Las Vegas. My girlfriend and sidekick, Patty Ledgerwood, aka Front Desk Girl, had a couple of things to finish before she got off work and we headed back to her place.

I have no idea how Wolfgang Sucker knew who I was, and I sure didn’t notice him until he was standing in front of me.

Poker Boy? he asked, his voice sounding like someone sanding a piece of furniture. I need your help if you don’t mind. My name is Wolfgang Sucker.

Actually, what he really needed was a couple