Suckers - J.A. Konrath
Suckers - J.A. Konrath
Suckers - J.A. Konrath
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Harry<br />
"Keeeyaaaa!"<br />
I struck the first cop with the knife-edge of my left hand, Drunken Jeet Kun Shaolin Monkey<br />
Fu style. I connected with the bridge of his nose, and he made like a bad poker hand and folded.<br />
Cop Number two pulled his weapon, but my instincts were honed like something really<br />
well-honed, and I grabbed his wrist and shoved the gun upward.<br />
Mayhem was bending down near the second cop's butt, but I am close to 100% positive he<br />
wasn’t sniffing anything. Following my heroic lead, Mayhem drove his shoulder into the second<br />
cop's stomach, driving him backwards.<br />
The gun went off, the bullet zinging over my head. Then Andrew made a fist and hit the cop<br />
in the jaw, and it was like watching a gigantic macho volcano unleashing its manly fury, all<br />
muscles and testosterone and heroics.<br />
Mayhem threw a series of powerhouse Clubber Lang lefts and rights, growling like a heroic<br />
grizzly bear as he pummeled the Pire. Not once did Andrew whimper like a whiney little<br />
tattletale bitch boy, no matter what anyone says.<br />
The cop went down, and Mayhem pried the gun from his hand and pointed it at me. I<br />
wondered if, in the frenzy of the moment, my heroic good friend had somehow forgotten who the<br />
bad guys were. I grabbed Pepe the Dancing Leprechaun and ducked.<br />
But Andrew had retained a clear head, and he fired at the first cop, who had gotten up<br />
behind me and was now holding one of those Conan swords, the really thick ones with the blood<br />
groove and the handle made from the tail of a dragon, but not a real dragon because they aren't<br />
real, one of those plastic dragons with reinforced graphite fibers.<br />
Then, somehow, the whole house burst into flames.<br />
"Could this be supernatural vampire magic?" I thought, searching for the dropped morphine<br />
bag.<br />
The screams of the damned echoed from the house. Or maybe it was the screams of all those<br />
poor fuckers who were on fire.<br />
They must have had some sort of meth lab in there, or maybe an oil refinery, because then<br />
there was this gimungous explosion, which blew Mayhem and I at least ten yards across the<br />
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