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Killing Ways: Stories

1. The Most Dangerous Man in New York City: 1969-1977: Winter 1971 - The first Ray Cruz story shows why he fits the description in the title. Ray takes on the Italian mob - all of it - and doesn't do too badly.



2. Daughters - Ray Cruz gets out of jail and his old boss has some work for him. He's not too interested in returning to a life in crime, but then the man he's asked to take care of earns Ray's very violent hate.



3. Family - my first flash fiction and it involves Viktor Petrenko, ex-Soviet Special Forces, current New York City tough guy in the rescue of a baby. Don't worry. The child will come out unharmed. Can't say the same for everybody else in the story.



4. Viktor Petrenko, Bring Them to Their Knees - Viktor is in South America when he's offered a job he can't refuse - rescuing a little girl kidnapped by a drug cartel. He's equal to the task of killing, but can he save the girl?



5. Viktor Petrenko, We Will Make You Beg - Viktor is in Rikers Island Prison in New York awaiting his trial for tax evasion. Prison toughs want to make him choose a side and detectives want him to start talking about a dismembered body they found, but all Viktor wants is to be left alone with his memories of the one love of his life - Elena.



6. Viktor Petrenko, Have You No Mercy?- A white collar crime puts Viktor in among the country club set for the first time in his life. While the other prisoners hardly know what to make of him, Viktor spends his nights dreaming of the Balkan Wars - the first time he met the love of his life, Elena.



7. Excerpt from Man of Disaster is a taste of a novel in progress. Scientists on the run from paid assassins involve Viktor in their troubles, and when the love of his life, Elena is threatened, Viktor responds the only way he knows how - murderously.



8. Into the Woods - a man and his psychotic delusions - delusions that seem real to the people they disembowel…



9. Long Distance - a con man claims that his non-speaking friend can retrieve the voices that have spoken on your phone lines even if the speaker is now dead. One little old lady wants to hear the last words of her now departed husband, but the message he left may not be what she wanted to hear…



10. Murder at DynaCorp - the head of research firm DynaCorp was found in his office with his heart sitting on top of his chest, but with no incision on his body.

Killing Ways 2: Urban Stories

1. The Biography of Stoop, the Thief - Chapter One: Stoop and Clyde. Stupendous Jones has had a hard life from the day he was born, but can he (as a twelve year old) save the life of the only guardian he's ever known? Should he even try?



2. The Biography of Stoop, the Thief - Chapter Three: Stoop and Elizabeth. Stoop finally finds the woman he thinks is his mother, but will the cost of saving her from her own demons be too high for a young boy to pay? Publisher's Weekly called the story "moving." I challenge you to disagree.



3. Bronx, Summer, 1971 - Ray Cruz hurts people for a living. When family members are found murdered, it's a race against the police to find the guilty and make them pay.



4. Padrino - Ray Cruz is back, and his goddaughter has been brutally attacked. She's not sure who beat her, but Ray makes it his mission to find out.



5. Elena Speaks of the City, Under Siege - It's a city under siege and you are young, beautiful and smart. But can you make it out of the city before your sanity crumbles like the infrastructure? And what would you do once you've left?



6. Early Fall - Yolanda Morales comes across a young runaway who calls herself "Jasmine" and tries to save her from a life on the streets even if she doesn't want to be saved. But what can one determined woman do when the rich and reckless come to the city looking for prey?