don’t care if he’s having sex with President Bush while Nancy Reagan watches. I need to speak to him personally, now!”

Papers flew and the ball started rolling. It was “The Advocate” tucked under his arm and on the cover was Pearce Warner, the man that Jenson reminded him of, and the person he needed to change the dynamics and the direction of “America Alive!”

Ian smiled to himself. He was right Jenson was the person he needed to complete the puzzle, now everything else, probably with a hell of a lot of work and luck, would fall into place.

It seemed like hours, but it was only a matter of minutes when Blake entered his office and said the best that he could do was leave a message and asked Ian if He wanted him to leave his private phone number on the message. Ian nodded his head in disappointment, and smiled, “Guess that magic book doesn’t have everything in it after all.”

Blake smiled, “I’m workin’ on it, boss” and quietly shut the door.

“Damn it,” Ian said to himself. He knew he had to act fast. It would be expensive, but he had to have Pearce Warner. He had been considered a rising star in the journalism war. His on the field reports from the war in Iraq were unparalleled. He was stunningly handsome, which made him a favorite with the women, and his Q with men was higher than even some action stars.

Two years ago, Warner had contacted the FBI. A man was trying to blackmail him, a male he had met on the Internet. They had exchanged emails for a while until Warner had felt comfortable enough to admittedly begin having cybersex with him. That led to watching each other masturbate on webcam. Although Warner had never shown his face to the guy, he managed to either figure out whom he was or made a good guess and started to demand money or go public.

According to the interview in “The Advocate”, although scared to death of his homosexuality going public and its effect on his career, he refused to be blackmailed and went to the F.B.I. and set up a sting. Within 24 hours the word had spread and every newspaper across the globe reported the incident. To Warner relief it didn’t seem to have any effect on his popularity.

However, it had had an effect on his position at the network he worked for. He found himself with far less gritty assignments, and even they started growing few and far between. The article ended with Warner’s admission that he had been told when his contract was up shortly the network had chosen not to pursue renewal.

And Ian wanted him. He wasn’t sure he could get him, but he knew enough to know that most news network news departments would consider him poison. He also knew that every cable company with have a nickel would be after him. Ian hoped that he could convince him to come to HRT. Finding him before he closed another deal was the hard part.

He pounded his fist on the desk. Would the man return a phone call from someone who wasn’t in a news department, and would he even be interested if he did. His best bet was to talk to him personally. He almost hoped Warner had caught him