I stopped for a woman dying on the roadside and lost my job for being late, but when I came back for my desk, my whole life changed…007

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“…somebody tampered with the brake line and the climate control intake of her Mercedes-Maybach on the descent from Lookout Mountain.”

“Somebody pumped eight hundred parts per million of **synthetic carbon monoxide** through her cabin filtration system.”

“Hoping she would suffer an ‘accidental’ cardiac arrest on the mountain curve before eight-thirty.”Kitchen & Dining

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Carter Holbrook let out an un-human, feral wail from the bottom of his lungs.

The sixty-two-year-old corporate titan lunged across the walnut table, his hands hooked into claws, his silk tie flying over his shoulder, aiming directly for the titanium key in my hand:Sofas & Armchairs

“GIVE IT TO ME!

THAT KEY CARRIES THE ENCRYPTED LEDGER!

WITHOUT THAT KEY, THE ZURICH CLEARINGHOUSE WILL FREEZE MY ASSETS IN TWENTY MINUTES!”

*CLACK.

*

Carter never cleared the table.

From the hallway behind me, the sound of eight-inch combat boots striking the polished concrete floorboards echoed with concussive, military authority:

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