John Grimes

## Overview

* Main Series - main character
* Sub-series - primary protagonist
* Member of the Queen's Bitches.
* Married to Jean Dukes.
* Children - Lillian Marlene (Life Goes On)
* Grandfather to Meredith Nicole "Nickie" Grimes (Capture Death)
* Other relatives:
	+ Cheryl Lynn's Cousin.
	+ Mrs. Grimes in the Terry Henry Walton Chronicles is a cousin.
	+ Lincoln Sherwood Grimes in The Empress' Spy is a cousin.

#### Queen Bitch

During Bethany Anne's first mission, she meets the four mean that will become the Queen's Bitches. During the mission they discover that it was a trap for the men that had been fighting the forsaken and without Bethany Anne's timely arrival they would have probably all been killed. As it was John was seriously injured and without Bethany Anne's blood he wouldn't have recovered. It was that event that cemented the four men and Bethany Anne's relationship, the four men would lay down their lives for her, but she in turn would do everything that she can to save them as well.

John often says that *He would die for her, he just didn’t want to die in bed from her.*

#### Release the Dogs of War

The Illuminati in the US try to trap Bethany Anne and kill the Bitches when she is on her way to visit the US president at the direction of Joshua Guildenstern. Almost all the attackers are killed except one, advisor to the president who is shot and released. The president is told Bethany Anne was ill rather than say she and her staff were too covered in blood. Barnabas and Bethany Anne join Joshua on his private jet as he attempts to escape. He is interrogated and executed dying alone as they leave with a disk drive containing information on the Illumanati.

#### Bite This

Bethany takes John, Eric and Garbrielle to Romania to recover TOM's space craft. Even before they leave Gabrielle agrees to go into the Pod-Doc to correct her nano-cytes so she can walk in the sun (along with other minor enhancements).

Eric's description of Bethany Anne - “A scary motherfucker? Death with the legs of an angel? The last beautiful smile you see before Hell takes you?”

#### We Will Build

Kamiko Kana arranges an ambush for Scott and Darryl where Scott takes a few bullets bad enough that Gabriel is pissed and realizes that they are being complacent.  She tracks down to where Kamiko Kana has another fortress and with **John** and Eric’s help they once again attack. This time, unbeknownst to the Queen’s Guard, Bethany Anne is waiting in the Etheric for Kamiko Kana to run away and when she does, Bethany Anne throws her back out and rips the Etheric from her, so she can’t run away again.  Gabriele finds her and beheads her.

#### Sued For Peace

At Christina Lowell's baby shower Bethany Anne "kidnaps" John and Jean Dukes, puts them in a pod set to go to an isolated beach with a week's supply of necessities with instructions to admit how the feel about each other.

### Frank Kurns Stories of the Unknown World

#### You Don't Touch John's Cousin

John's cousin in Texas was being threatened by her soon to be ex-husband Mark Lindell aka Timothy Spickels. Cheryl Lynn and her two children, Tina and Todd had moved out when she had documented Mark's philandering. While he exudes the appearance of a successful marketing executive ADAM uncovers Mark is diagnosed as having narcissistic issues that result in a lack of psychological awareness, difficulty feeling empathy for others, and hypersensitivity to insults real or imagined.  Mark cares nothing for the children and is upset as much by Cheryl Lynn's factual accusations as the half of his wealth he would lose if the divorce is finalized.

Mark hires 3 thugs to assault Cheryl Lynn but she fights them off and gets home just before John and Bethany Anne arrive. They set up an ambush for when the 3 thugs, at Mark's direction, come after her again. They barely survive and even if Cheryl Lynn and kids had stayed in Texas would not have been a problem.

Bethany Anne and John have a heart-to-heart with Mark inflicting terror on him as retribution for his attacks. Bethany Anne has ADAM arrange for legal force to the divorce and monitor Mark. If Mark comes after Cheryl Lynn or the kids ADAM will provide evidence of his illegal dealings to law enforcement and if they don't act to empty all of his accounts.

This is definitely a deference from Michael (from before the series) who would have killed him and Cheryl would have been collecting from Mark's estate.

An interesting potential is about Frank Kurns. Frank had notified John of the situation that triggered the events in the book. Does this mean Frank is monitoring a swath of people who are associated with key members of Bethany Anne's teams? Or was this just a specific request from John because he had never trusted Mark and John and Cheryln had been close when they were young?

#### Bitch's Night Out

BA orders John to take the Bitches out for night of action against someone who deserves it to work off excess energy. They take off with a full personal weapons load in the Black Eagles. The US task force who is shadowing the QBS Polarus puts up a set of F-18 fighters when Frank Kurns lets them know the Eagles are on their way, watch but don't try to touch. The Bitches show off with the US radar showing 600 bogies instead of just the 6 and then the team takes off at a speed the US planes cannot even come close to achieving.

Their first target is an oil refinery. With his enhancements he is able to sense how many people are in the refinery without seeing them. The second target is a group in Beni, Kenya who are terrorizing the locals by gruesome killings. The third targets the delivery of RPGs at the port of NY intended to take out BA. John “the Don” Cherynsky and his Chinese connection Jing are taken out by John on his own.

John specifically asks for a driver named Bartholomew, a vampire who is living outside of the Forsaken and TQB. The help Scott settle an old score by backing him up as he takes out the pimp, Mario, who tried to kill him and did kill his friend. Instead of killing Mario, Scott has Akio put a compulsion on Mario to go to the police and confess all of his crimes.

## References

1. ↑ Life Goes On
2. ↑ Capture Death
3. ↑ Anderle, Michael. Bite This (The Kurtherian Gambit Book 4) . Kindle Edition.
4. ↑ Anderle, Michael. You Don't Touch John's Cousin (Frank Kurns Stories of the UnknownWorld Book 1) (p. 25). LMBPN Publishing. Kindle Edition.