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    Hell Fire
    Hell Fire
    Hell Fire
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    Hell Fire

    By Ali Vali

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    Dr. Abigail Eaton stumbles into a massacre, but once someone tries to kill her it seems like no accident. While hunting for the perpetrators of a sex trafficking empire, Agent Finley Abbott saves Abigail from a professional hit and discovers the young mother might be the key to more than just her case. Finley takes Abigail and her family to what she thinks is safer ground, and runs right into the arms of reputed mob boss Cain Casey.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBold Strokes Books
    Release dateFeb 17, 2018
    ISBN9781635552386
    Hell Fire
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    Ali Vali

    Originally from Cuba, Ali Vali has retained much of her family’s traditions and language and uses them frequently in her stories. Having her father read her stories and poetry before bed every night as a child infused her with a love of reading, which carries till today. In 2000, Ali decided to embark on a new path and started writing.She has discovered that living in Louisiana and running a non-profit provides plenty of material to draw from in creating her novels and short stories. Mixing imagination with different life experiences, she creates characters that are engaging to the reader on many levels. Ali states that "The feedback from readers encourages me to continue to hone my skills as a writer."

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      Hell Fire - Ali Vali

      Hell Fire

      By Ali Vali

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright 2016 Ali Vali

      This eBook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This eBook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Hell Fire

      Abigail Eaton stumbles into a massacre, but once someone tries to kill her it seems like no accident. While hunting for the perpetrators of a sex trafficking empire, Agent Finley Abbott saves Abigail from a professional hit and discovers the young mother might be the key to more than just her case. Finley takes Abigail and her family to what she thinks is safer ground, and runs right into the arms of reputed mob boss Cain Casey.

      Hell Fire

      © 2016 By Ali Vali. All Rights Reserved.

      ISBN 13: 978-1-63555-238-6

      This Electronic Book is published by

      Bold Strokes Books, Inc.

      P.O. Box 249

      Valley Falls, New York 12185

      First Edition: April 2016

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

      This book, or parts thereof, may not be reproduced in any form without permission.

      Credits

      Editor: Shelley Thrasher

      Production Design: Stacia Seaman

      Cover Design By Sheri (graphicartist2020@hotmail.com)

      Chapter One

      Abbott, get your ass in here, Captain Brock Howard yelled as he stood in the doorway of his office. The Bronx precinct station had been freezing since their shift change that morning, when the boiler blew up, making so much racket everyone carrying had drawn their weapons.

      Detective Finley Abbott glanced up from her computer screen and flipped her middle finger at her pseudo partner Roberta Schumer when she let out a long ooh.

      What the hell did you do now? Roberta asked.

      I’ll tell you after I recover from the shock that Howard actually knows my name, Finley said. The captain had never talked to her directly. Do you think he’s finally realized he’s got a computer sitting on his desk and it’s not really a paperweight slash sticky-note holder?

      Finley pushed her bangs back, cursing her mother lovingly for giving her the straightest blackest hair known to man. It was impossible to style and grew faster than she could keep up with. At least she’d inherited her family’s height.

      I wouldn’t hold my breath, and the vein in his forehead’s bulging, so move it, Roberta said.

      When Howard opened his mouth as if to scream again, Finley walked into his office. Yes, sir.

      Sit, he said, as if she were a cocker spaniel, and pointed to the only empty chair except his. You and your pal out there find anything yet?

      Not yet. The traffic we’ve been following is coming out of this area, but they’re bouncing all over the globe, and the transmission cuts out before we can figure out who they’re communicating with.

      Howard nodded but appeared confused. I heard ‘not yet,’ then blah blah blah.

      Finley laughed and was glad Howard joined in. Think of when you were a kid and played with two tin cans and a long string. It was easy to trace who you were talking to and where they were. These guys start here and the string goes to London, Moscow, China, but before it gets to the end, someone cuts the string.

      That I can understand, Howard said as he leaned back so far Finley was afraid he’d land on his head when the chair snapped. So I take it you and your sidekick aren’t going anywhere anytime soon?

      I promise we’ll be out of here as soon as we’ve got something.

      He waved her off. I’m not rushing you, but why you’re working from here still rubs me the wrong way.

      I don’t blame you, and I’m trying my best to clear up that first trace. There can be two reasons it originated from here and why it hasn’t happened since. She didn’t like talking about ongoing investigations, but she had to keep Howard happy so she wouldn’t blow her cover. The agency had vetted him enough for her to trust him a little, but Howard also thought the police commissioner had sent her and Roberta. Either it was run through your system as a joke, or someone out there isn’t happy with the pension they’re working toward.

      What’s your take?

      Whoever it is, she glanced out to see if anyone was overly interested in their conversation, is smart, and you’ve got plenty of smart people out there.

      So they’re out there?

      Smart people are also sitting in dark rooms moving girls all over the country with a few keystrokes. An old-appearing picture of two girls in shorts and bright-colored blouses on Howard’s credenza was starting to yellow and fade. If those are your girls you should understand the importance of why I’m here, and you’ll be happy to know I’m persistent.

      They sent me your record so I believe you, but it still pisses me off that someone under your command might be leaking our advantage to the scum on the streets. It’s not like we have that much of an edge, you know.

      She nodded and understood his frustration, but she also understood Howard might be full of shit. That’s why she was willing to share only so much. At times police work included some give-and-take, but you never gave away more than you got from the scum, as Howard had said. If that’s the case here, believe me, I’ll weed them out for you. And neither the DA nor the feds will cut them any slack.

      Don’t kid yourself, Abbott. The feds cut more deals than the DA’s office even considers. No one wants bad press smearing the police department. Howard stood and hiked his pants up, most likely to signal their meeting was over. Let me know if I can do anything to clear the way for you.

      Thank you, sir. She closed his door and signaled to Roberta that she was heading out.

      She’d finished here for the day, but she still had to report her total lack of progress to her real boss, FBI Special Agent Russell Welsh. Russell had recruited her six months before she’d graduated from LSU in Baton Rouge, after she’d hacked into the secure servers of two major banks. She hadn’t stolen anything; she’d done it simply to prove to herself she could. Russell and his team, as well as the bank, had been pissed that after all their investigations they couldn’t prove it was her.

      Though she’d worked for him over three years, he still asked on occasion how she’d done it, but she was never in a sharing mood since she technically could still be charged with the crime. Not that she thought Russell would do that, but she wasn’t the gambling type. In reality she was more the nerdy, introverted type who enjoyed her job more than probably ninety-nine percent of the world’s population.

      The Bronx job was her first undercover assignment, and it certainly was different than sitting in an office all day monitoring six computer screens to find perverts who trolled chat sites for unsuspecting twelve-year-olds. She wished she could believe that the level of some people’s depravity surprised her, but she’d crossed that scummy bridge a long time before. When pretending to be a young boy, she interacted only about twice with the creeps before they dropped their pants to show her their idea of candy.

      Let the inquisition begin, she said to herself when she got on the subway headed uptown after she triple-checked that no one had followed her.

      * * *

      Mama, can we go in there? six-year-old Victoria Eaton asked, pointing to the M&M store in Times Square. The colorful window displays, along with the large digital monitors, made Victoria want to stop and stare every time they passed the place.

      We can, but not right now, okay? Abigail Eaton said as she settled her three-year-old son on her hip. He was heavy, but carrying him was better than keeping track of him and her two girls in this crowd. Remember, we’re meeting your grandparents for lunch, so after that we’ll go again.

      Abigail’s eight-year-old daughter said, Why can’t we go somewhere else? We’ve been in the M&M store like a gazillion times already, her tone quickly becoming whiny. The girls were two years apart, but to the older girl, Victoria was the definition of an annoying evil spawn.

      We’ve got two more days, so after we visit the candy store for the gazillion and first time, we’ll go wherever you want to, Abigail said, not wanting any meltdowns before

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