This I Swear
by Carl A. Flecker Jr.
Crete Sloan, a hard-nosed tough guy, banged around life’s experiences before absconding to a remote island in the Bahamian Atlantic. First, as an enforcer for the Pittsburgh mob through high school and into his early twenties, then shot and left for dead by a close friend, a career change to the Pittsburgh cops, where he couldn’t do the discipline, then a private eye, and now a mercenary.