Devil's Churn (Fort Black Thriller Book 1) by Russ Linton

Author:Russ Linton [Linton, Russ]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Thriller, vigilante, reacher, justice, mystery, adventure, action, fbi, Suspense
Publisher: Russ Linton
Published: 2023-07-29T16:00:00+00:00

24

Kade took it easy on the first two eager assailants. They’d been trained by Griff, sure. But Kade knew they’d been fighting their whole lives. Wrestling in the woods as boys. Drunken brawls in bar parking lots as men. Never inside the bar like in the movies. Their mamas raised them with more sense than that.

But they hadn’t been raised with enough sense to walk away from this fight.

They came at Kade full speed. No bluff charging, no feeling out their opponent. It was a momentum Kade turned to his advantage.

He planted a powerful push kick in the first one’s chest. The stout lumberjack probably plowed through a trick like that. But Kade threw kicks like a wrecking ball. He cracked ribs. Collapsed lungs.

Right now, he only wanted to create space to engage the next guy.

With assailant number one reeling, Kade accepted the full force of the second one’s rush. A subtle twist sent him sailing into the parked truck.

That move Kade hadn’t learned in the axe yard at Fort Black. Sergei taught him. The Russian spy had earned a black belt in Judo strictly to impress an egomaniacal President.

But weren’t they all?

Kade didn’t pause to watch the man sprawl into the dust. He shifted attention back to the first one, staggering to his feet, clutching his chest. Looking to recoup for round two.

Then there was Todd. Sill sneering from the sidelines, face crinkled around the surgical tape that held his nose together. Hadn’t yet found the balls Griff had been on about. Or maybe he was just smarter than he looked.

Winded, the guy with Kade’s boot print on his chest circled. Kade tracked him. He was maneuvering so when his friend got out of the dirt, they could attack from both sides. Todd made a third front if he ever got up the nerve.

Best policy. Not get surrounded in the first place.

Kade raised fists and closed the distance. He telegraphed a straight up brawl. No tricks. The man raised his guard.

Kade soaked up a punch to his head. He tucked his chin. Let it strike his forehead. His sparring partner would feel that later. Closed hand strikes always ran the risk of tearing up hands and shattering bones. Kade knew he needed those for a few more rounds to come. So when he returned the blow, as his fist sailed toward the man’s jaw, he released his fingers and struck him with an open palm.

The crack echoed off the bare stone amphitheater. His opponent staggered, the whole side of his face a violent shade of purple. Kade launched a straight, open-palm strike into the man’s sternum. What little breath recovered left him in a gasping woosh.

Kade spun in time to throw a sidekick at the second opponent. All his scrambling off the ground had earned him was a hiking boot into his throat. He went back down.

Todd circled the fight. Fully focused on Kade.

“No guns, huh.” Todd slid a combat knife from a sheath attached to his vest.

Cute, Kade thought.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.