Be careful what you wish for…
“The other woman. She’s your sister,yes?”
Fleming forced cool. “Where is she?”
“She’s talking to one of my colleagues. Heplays a bit rougher than I do. Your sister is telling himeverything.”
Fleming didn’t have to force the laughter. Itcame naturally. While everyone had a breaking point, they hadn’thad Chandler nearly long enough to reach hers.
The agent frowned. “You think I’m beingfunny? We’re going to take you, and your sister, someplace whereyou’ll never see daylight again.”
“Where no one will ever look?” Flemingasked.
“Exactly.”
“Like in your underwear?”
His frown deepened. “Prepare her fortransport,” he told his men.
The other agents moved forward.
“Hold on,” Fleming said. “What’s yourname?”
The agent hesitated, then answered,“Malcolm.”
Fleming looked beyond him, to the other menin the room. “Does anyone here have a mint for Malcolm? Or somegum?”
No one chuckled. Tough crowd.
Then one of them produced a syringe.
This was bad.
Very bad.
Fleming understood Malcolm’s threat all toowell. The United States had dozens of secret prisons throughout theworld. Being the last super power standing, those in charge haddecided to wipe their asses with the Constitution. No more dueprocess. No more trials by peers. No trials at all, in fact. UScitizens could be kidnapped, tortured, and executed by their owngovernment, all on the hush-hush.
Fleming knew what went on at these blacksites. She knew that no one made it out of them alive.
“The President will have your head if youtake me anywhere,” Fleming said.
“Right now the President is in the middle ofa worldwide scandal. It’s a PR nightmare. I really doubt he careswhat happens to you.”
Especially since he’ll probably blame mefor his recent problems, Fleming thought.
She and Chandler had saved millions. But thatdidn’t mean much for the Commander-in-Chief’s upcoming reelectioncampaign.
“You’re worried,” Malcolm said. “I can tell.You have good reason to be. Are you sure you have nothing tosay?”
Fleming stayed quiet.
“Who do you work for?”
“Okay, I’ll tell you. I work for M.”
“M?”
“On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. I’m Agent007. My name is Bond.” Fleming forced herself to smile. “JamesBond.”
“Sedate her,” Malcolm ordered.
The needle went in hard and the drug workedquickly.
Fleming knew this would likely be the lastmoment of peace she would ever have.
She was tough. But everybody breaks.
And now, Fleming realized with terrifyingcertainty, she was about to find out what her breaking pointwas.
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CODENAME: CHANDLER
She’s an elite spy, working for an agency sosecret only three people know it exists. Trained by the best of thebest, she has honed her body, her instincts, and her intellect tobecome the perfect weapon.
FLEE
Then her cover is explosively blown, and shebecomes a walking bulls-eye, stalked by assassins who want thesecrets she holds, and those who’d prefer she die beforetalking.
Chandler now has twenty-four hours to thwarta kidnapping, stop a murderous psychopath, uncover the mystery ofher past, retire five highly-trained contract killers, and save theworld from nuclear annihilation, all while dodging 10,000 bulletsand a tenacious cop named Jack Daniels.
Buckle up. It’s going to be one helluvaride.
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Wisconsin. Summer. Late at night.
Two teenage girls are picked up by two boys,who invite them back to their place to party.
But an innocent mistake turns the party intoa nightmare, where nothing is what it seems...
Wild Night Is Calling is a 6000 word shortstory by thriller writer J.A. Konrath (Shaken, Trapped) andromantic suspense writer Ann Voss Peterson (A Cop in Her Stocking,Seized By The Sheik).
Peterson wrote the first half. Konrath wrotethe second half.
This ebook, specially formatted forSmashwords with an active table of contents, also contains anexcerpt from Konrath and Peterson’s collaborative spy thriller,FLEE.
Together they also wrote EXPOSED, BABE ONBOARD, and SPREE.
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For fans of Stephen King, Dean Koontz, andThomas Harris, picture this: a landscape of American genocide…
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A rash of bizarre murders swept thecountry…
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The murders increased ten-fold…
3 DAYS AGO
The President addressed the nation and beggedfor calm and peace…
2 DAYS AGO
The killers began to mobilize…
YESTERDAY
All the power went out…
TONIGHT
They’re reading the names of those to bekilled on the Emergency Broadcast System. You are listening overthe battery-powered radio on your kitchen table, and they’ve justread yours.
Your name is Jack Colclough. You have a wife,a daughter, and a young son. You live in Albuquerque, New Mexico.People are coming to your house to kill you and your family. Youdon’t know why, but you don’t have time to think about that anymore.
You only have time to….
RUN
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