For those of you who have already doved—dove—dived—diven?—plunged headlong into Grayhound, the third book in the Callahan Chronicles, I doubt many of you expected to meet the Spanish Inquisition. No one ever expects the Spanish Inquisition, do they? As a Protestant Christian, I grew up reading stories of the first Reformers, many of whom were hunted, persecuted, or even murdered by the Catholic Church—men like Jan Hus, Martin Luther, William Tyndale, Ulrich Zwingli, and John

The Prefect, The Model, and the Student During the summer of 1893, what started as a small protest in Paris nearly became a revolution. When I first learned of these facts—quite by accident, as it is rare to find them mentioned in any ordinary history book—they fascinated me so entirely that it became the primary nail on which I hung the starting date of the Callahan Chronicles . Though the story twisted in ways I never expected, the reason the Callahan Chronicles begin in 18