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    Justice

    By Tony Keegan

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    St. Ash, a city rampant with crime and injustice. Victor Vera is a police officer who works day to day, seeking to balance the scales, helping capture the criminals that the police force investigate, ending the lives of those that they don’t. A man with a hidden curse who knows little about his origins, he and his partner, Detective Kathryn Louis, a similarly gifted woman, face the task of leading a double life, being police officers while seeking to eliminate crime with their own measures, all while investigating a series of gruesome homicides committed on innocent families.

    When Victor receives an employment offer from the Governor of the Capital himself, he begins to learn of the darker side of the city, a shadow war occurring on the fringes of society that threatens to tear St. Ash apart.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherZan Liu
    Release dateSep 2, 2015
    ISBN9781310008740
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      Justice - Tony Keegan

      Justice

      By Tony Keegan

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      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright © 2015 by Tony Keegan

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      Table of Contents

      Prologue

      Chapter 1

      Chapter 2

      Chapter 3

      Chapter 4

      Chapter 5

      Chapter 6

      Chapter 7

      Chapter 8

      Chapter 9

      Chapter 10

      Chapter 11

      Chapter 12

      Chapter 13

      Chapter 14

      Chapter 15

      Epilogue

      Prologue

      The lab was chilly, vapor condensing onto the man’s visor. He was dressed in an airtight hazmat suit. In a lab such as this, any normal viewer would believe he was just another of the scientists who were busy working, bustling around, constantly crossing the sterile white floor back and forth with syringes, equipment and clipboards. The man was not one of them; in fact he himself had had this laboratory built and staffed with the best researchers and workers he could find. All in secret. He had great plans, but he knew that sometimes those with smaller ambitions were afraid of greatness and seeked to stifle it before it could grow. Such was life.

      He watched his staff, bored and impatient, tapping his fingers on the rail that separated him from the main working area, wishing he had any idea what they were taking so long to do. One of them had sent word to the man’s assistant earlier on: the experiment was reaching completion, and as requested, they were notifying him to be there on time to view the results. Why then, he wondered, are they still wasting my time? A voice rang out at a computer console.

      It’s happening, get ready! a male voice called out excitedly. The other scientists began to stand by the twenty five crystal-lined metal pods they had been working around. The man’s fingers clenched the rail, anticipating a moment that had taken months to reach fruition. The lights changed from pure white to amber, and one by one, the oval pods rose slightly from the floor on platforms. Each scientist tapped onto a touch screen embedded on the side of the device beside them, a small crystal door embedded on it sliding aside for them. The scientists bent over the pods, sticking their syringes into whatever lay inside them, and then closed the glass. A few seconds passed, and the lights turned white again.

      The operator at the console was smiling, but suddenly his smile cracked. He went pale and began to sweat. The mastermind of the experiment vaulted the rail, tired of his inaction, of simply sitting and observing. He shoved the man off the console and stared at the screen. Slowly he watched as one by one, the life signals on each pod went red. He dropped his head into his hands in frustration and turned away. The scientists immediately became tense; they had had a glimpse of his rages before, he would not be afraid to hurt them or their loved ones if the experiment failed. In fact, failure would mean months of time and millions lost, so in a perverse way, they understood if he desired to eliminate them for it.

      The console chimed. The mysterious man turned. One pod had turned green, another was yellow. Two survivors from twenty five. ‘SUCCESS’ read on the screen. The scientists watched him nervously, looking into his visor. Behind it, he was smiling.

      Chapter 1

      It was summer, and the heat had been radiating down on the town of Blue Vista, a comfy place in the Northeast of the nation of Belosia. The children ran in the streets, playing with water balloons and hoses, their parents watching on while steaks and sausages cooked on the grills of their barbecues. We hadn’t had to move to the capital because of dad’s work at this point. No strange visits at home, no ‘special classes’ away from the other children. Different days, better days. Mom and Dad hadn’t been murdered yet…

      Corporal Victor James Vera awoke, staring at the ceiling of his apartment. The dreams had begun again. They always returned, eventually, especially when times were rough. And right then, rough was an understatement.

      Finally getting his deserved promotion six months ago had been difficult, but he had been amazed at how life changed once you were officially a police officer, a proper cop on the streets with a vehicle, and not those silly desk jobs or motorcycle patrols he had been assigned to for the last year. Already he had been in the middle of a shootout in the slums on his first week, then a bank heist he took a bullet in the vest for –

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