Old Man Rider by Beau Johnson
Author:Beau Johnson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Down & Out Books
Look, Iâm not going to sugarcoat things. These overhead lights, Danny, this basement, itâs the last place youâre ever going to see. And everything thatâs planned, itâs going to happen right over there, and you are going to feel every last bit of it before we dump you in that hole. Call it a threat, call it a promise, call it me predicting the goddamn future, I really donât give a shit. What you did, Danny, what you got away with, in my opinion, it deserves all this and more.
Itâs not my opinion that matters, thoughâIâm just the guy before the guy.
What, you thought this was a two-player game?
Danny.
Danny, Danny, Danny.
Seeing as we still have some time to burn, Iâll start at the beginning then.
Your name, Danny, it was part of a listâa list extracted from men much like yourself. Not in appearance, no, but in level of dirtbag. The one guy, a dirty cop, you donât know, but McDonough, yeah, you and he had history. Not anymore, of course.
Man went up in flames, Dan. Yessir. It ended with an explosion too, but itâs really your name and others on that list that bring us to you gagged and tied to that chair. And Iâm not going to lieâit was difficult tracking you down. Side quest after side quest after goddamn fucking side quest if Iâm honest.
Donât look at me like that, Dan. We found you in a stained wifebeater asleep on a couch in front of a PS3, for Christâs sake. I know you know what a side quest is.
But all right, you look at me like you are a moron, Iâm going to treat you like one.
These pit stops, the ones on our way to youâthey involve a very particular man. A man who Iâve been helping for a little while now. It goes back to that list and the other names upon it, the ones above yours, and how it created certain opportunities by attacking them in the order in which they were written down. This manâs name, Danny? Rider. Sound familiar?
Yeah, I thought it might.
Anyway, we get to about halfway down this list your name is on, on to a man named Terrance, and this Terrance, he points us in the direction of a man named Toomey.
Lot of names to keep track of, I know.
Lemme try and make it easier for you.
Donât gimme that face, Dan. Seriously. You have no sway here, no play. You drugged and raped your wife and monetized that shit. That you only served six years for what you did is what irks us the most, I suppose. Can you spell travesty, Dan? I sure as fuck can. But timeline-wise, it did coincide with McDonough giving you up, so maybe, just maybe, I shouldnât be looking a gift horse in the mouth as unkindly as I am.
Anyway. Where was I?
Oh, yes. Rider. If Iâm honest again, heâs rage and anger and a man who clearly has issues. His mother and sister were murdered, Dan, the sister being raped by six men in masks before she succumbs.
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