Ballistic

Trey Dowell

Description

Danny has a simple job: he makes people pay for their mistakes. Unfortunately, even hitmen screw up too. When an exhausted Danny escorts an unreliable accountant to his final audit in a run-down hotel, he realizes the moneyman isn't the only one scheduled for termination. And when you need a professional, lightning-quick gunman dead, they don't just send one man-they send all of them.Alone, facing multiple killers, he has to move fast and shoot faster. Worse, Danny knows the leader of the team-the legend who trained him-lies somewhere in the depths of the hotel...waiting. A short work of crime fiction from our Fingerprints line.

Sujets

• Short story

Informations

• Publié par: Untreed Reads
• Date de parution: 18 juillet 2011
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781611871357
• Langue: English

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Ballistic
By Trey Dowell

Copyright 2011 by Trey Dowell
Cover Copyright 2011 by Dara England and Untreed Reads Publishing

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This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to the living or dead is entirely coincidental.


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Ballistic
By Trey Dowell
It’s 2 AM.
My brain is swimming and it’s difficult to stand steady, let alone focus on the job. I’m working on less than three hours of sleep over the last three days. Normally I’d tell myself to just suck it up and keep going, but that little pearl of wisdom got old 48 hours ago. Back then I was cranky. Now I’m past the point of internal motivation.
I’d say the world is moving in slow motion, but God that sounds so lame. Besides, on a normal day, it’s not a cliché…everything does move in slow motion for me. Call it a difference in perspective; I move at normal speed, everybody else seems to crawl. Everybody else thinks they’re normal, and they think I’m crazy fast.
Except right now I’m a zombie, and fast sounds like a long-lost friend. Everything around me swirls, and I imagine brain gears grinding to a halt. Luckily my body’s autopilot managed to get me this far: into the dilapidated empty hotel, up an ancient elevator, and down the hallway.