highly overrated, old man. You’re not top dog any more. Go back to Mexico and dream of the good old days.”
Alvarez reached up and briefly fingered the jagged remains of his left earlobe, a sign he wasn’t feeling as confident as he appeared. Yet his next words gave none of his insecurity away.
“You won’t be so disrespectful once you watch this DVD.” Alvarez threw a slim box onto the grass at Niko’s feet. “Sleep well, tonight, hijo … I will.” The window slid up with a hiss and the limo moved away.
Niko let out the first full breath he’d taken since the limo pulled up. He’d been lying about Alvarez’s decreased status. Since his imprisonment ten years ago, Alvarez had slowly regained much of his power even from within one of the United States’ most secure prisons.
Until finally he’d been strong enough to blackmail a judge into reversing his sentence of life without parole. The judge had been arrested and the state attorney general was working on getting the sentence reinstated so they could put Alvarez back behind bars, but the damage was done.
Niko bent to retrieve the DVD, dread burning in his gut like three-day-old coffee. For Alvarez to gloat like he did, the contents were going to be bad.
Niko shoved the DVD in the pocket of his windbreaker. As he ran back toward his mother’s house, the partially healed wound in his leg throbbed. But he was used to ignoring physical pain. What he needed to do now was pick up a double helping of Greek pastries to keep his mother and sister distracted. Because much as he hated jumping at Alvarez’s command, instinct told him to view the DVD. Now.
Before the crime lord’s latest evil got any worse.
Book List
The Surgical Strike Unit Series
Undercover - Prequel
Vengeance - Book 1
Betrayal - Book 2
Retribution - Book 3
Payback - Book 3.5 (coming soon!)
Aftermath - Book 4 (coming January 2014!)
Acknowledgments
A huge thank you to Kristin Miller, Jasmine Haynes, Valerie Susan Hayward and Angela Pike for helping make this a better book. Thanks also to Frauke Spanuth of Croco Designs for creating another awesome cover.
Most of all, my continuing gratitude to all the readers who have made this series a success!
Copyright
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, brands, places and incidents are either 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.
Undercover Copyright 2013 by Vanessa Kier
ISBN: 978-0-9889147-6-6
Excerpt from Vengeance Copyright 2013 by Vanessa Kier
All rights reserved. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express permission of Vanessa Kier.
Alvarez reached up and briefly fingered the jagged remains of his left earlobe, a sign he wasn’t feeling as confident as he appeared. Yet his next words gave none of his insecurity away.
“You won’t be so disrespectful once you watch this DVD.” Alvarez threw a slim box onto the grass at Niko’s feet. “Sleep well, tonight, hijo … I will.” The window slid up with a hiss and the limo moved away.
Niko let out the first full breath he’d taken since the limo pulled up. He’d been lying about Alvarez’s decreased status. Since his imprisonment ten years ago, Alvarez had slowly regained much of his power even from within one of the United States’ most secure prisons.
Until finally he’d been strong enough to blackmail a judge into reversing his sentence of life without parole. The judge had been arrested and the state attorney general was working on getting the sentence reinstated so they could put Alvarez back behind bars, but the damage was done.
Niko bent to retrieve the DVD, dread burning in his gut like three-day-old coffee. For Alvarez to gloat like he did, the contents were going to be bad.
Niko shoved the DVD in the pocket of his windbreaker. As he ran back toward his mother’s house, the partially healed wound in his leg throbbed. But he was used to ignoring physical pain. What he needed to do now was pick up a double helping of Greek pastries to keep his mother and sister distracted. Because much as he hated jumping at Alvarez’s command, instinct told him to view the DVD. Now.
Before the crime lord’s latest evil got any worse.
Book List
The Surgical Strike Unit Series
Undercover - Prequel
Vengeance - Book 1
Betrayal - Book 2
Retribution - Book 3
Payback - Book 3.5 (coming soon!)
Aftermath - Book 4 (coming January 2014!)
Acknowledgments
A huge thank you to Kristin Miller, Jasmine Haynes, Valerie Susan Hayward and Angela Pike for helping make this a better book. Thanks also to Frauke Spanuth of Croco Designs for creating another awesome cover.
Most of all, my continuing gratitude to all the readers who have made this series a success!
Copyright
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, brands, places and incidents are either 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.
Undercover Copyright 2013 by Vanessa Kier
ISBN: 978-0-9889147-6-6
Excerpt from Vengeance Copyright 2013 by Vanessa Kier
All rights reserved. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express permission of Vanessa Kier.
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