All of Them to Burn by Beau Johnson

Author:Beau Johnson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Down & Out Books

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CHANGING OF THE GUARD

A Bishop Rider Story

If you ever need to gauge the measure of a man, watch him lose parts of his face and then continue to spend the rest of his life doing what he’d already done for years: attempting to rectify yours.

That’s John Batista, big nutshell and all. Always as strong as they come. Always adept at getting us in a position to put down as many pieces of shit as we could. But losing parts of one’s face in a barn on the outskirts of Hanson Falls is enough to set certain events in motion. I don’t know this for sure, and all told, it’s only speculation on my part, but in the aftermath of Harrison Garrett taking a blade to the left side of the Detective’s face, I noticed a change.

It was subtle, too. And I could not blame the man. Not after everything he had done for me.

We continued as we always had. For years, in fact. Until a handshake and words like cabin, fishing, and retirement are spoken over cheeseburgers and beer. What could I say? What do you say to a man who’d given so much of his life trying to right yours? There are no words. There were no words. There never could be. And Batista, he knew as much—the reason he went about things the way he did, I suppose. Here one day, gone the next.

A handshake. No words.

And like that, he was gone.

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