Killer Pursuit
by Jeff Gunhus
GENRE: Thriller
BLURB:
When
a secret webcam is found in the Georgetown bedroom of a murdered high-society
call girl, everyone in Washington, DC wants the recording...especially the
killer.
After a high-society
call girl is brutally murdered in her Georgetown home, investigators find two
cameras hidden in the walls of her bedroom. One has its memory erased,
presumably by the murderer. The second is a webcam with an encrypted
connection...and no-one knows who's on the other end. Whoever has the
recordings has embarrassing leverage against some of the most powerful men in
DC, not to mention a video of the murder showing the identity of the killer.
FBI Special Agent
Allison McNeil is asked by beleaguered FBI Director Clarence Mason to run an
off-the-record investigation of the murder because of the murder's similarity
to a case she worked a year earlier. Allison knows the most direct path to
apprehending the killer is to find the videos, but rumors that the victim's
client list may include some of Washington's most powerful men makes her doubt
the director's motives. As she starts her investigation, she quickly discovers
that she's not the only one pursuing the recording...but that the most aggressive
person racing against her might be the murderer himself.
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EXCERPT:
The two members of the tactical squad
approaching from the front reached the deck that wrapped around the front of
the building. As they strode across it, the old wood floorboards groaned. The
men froze. The seconds stretched out. Allison became suddenly aware of the hum
of insects in the air around her. The dampness of her own skin. The sound of a
bird calling in the distance. All of her senses were wired tight. An entire
year of her life was wrapped up in the next few seconds. And if she’d got it
wrong, Garret would have the ammo he’d been looking for to get her out of his
unit once and for all. But she wasn’t worried about herself. What really
bothered her was the chance that she had it right, that this was Kraw’s
hideout, but that somehow they’d spooked him and he’d already slipped away. If
that had happened, he’d be hundreds of miles away by tomorrow, scouting for his
next victim as he traveled.
Movement in the cabin. Just a
flutter. Like a bird trapped in a cage. Only her intuition told her it was more
than a bird. It had been an arm. A human arm. Sam Kraw.
Based on the lack of movement from
the tactical team, she realized no one else had seen it.
“I’ve got movement,” she whispered
into her mic. “Window to the right of the front door. An arm.”
“I didn’t see anything,” Garret
whispered.
Allison ignored him. The men around
the cabin responded immediately, reorienting to the front door. Guns pointed at
the window.
One of the men produced a miniram, a
high impact, brute force breaching tool. Coordinating with his partner, he
crouched next to the door while the other man readied a flash-bang grenade.
There was a pause, as if someone had
pressed a button on a TV remote. Everyone was in place. The air seemed to still
as if the world knew something was about to happen. Allison had her binoculars
trained on the window where she’d seen the movement. If Kraw was inside, then
the nightmare was almost over. She’d know in a few seconds whether that was the
case or not.
But in that second, she saw the
movement again.
Only this time, she knew something
was wrong.
It was a man’s arm, she saw it
clearly this time. But it was too stiff. The color was off. And, attached at
the shoulder, she saw a coil of wire.
A mannequin arm on a spring.
Meant to make them think someone was
inside.
It was a trap.
AUTHOR BIO:
Jeff
Gunhus is the author thriller and horror novels for adults and the middle
grade/YA series, The Templar Chronicles. The first book, Jack Templar Monster
Hunter, was written in an effort to get his reluctant reader eleven-year old
son excited about reading. It worked and a new series was born. His books for
adults have reached the Top 100 on Amazon and have been Foreword Reviews Book
of the Year Finalists.
After
his experience with his son, he is passionate about helping parents reach young
reluctant readers and is active in child literacy issues. As a father of five,
he leads an active lifestyle in Maryland with his wife Nicole by trying to
constantly keep up with their kids. In rare moments of quiet, he can be found
in the back of the City Dock Cafe in Annapolis working on his next novel.
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