Steel Dragon by Kevin McLaughlin & Michael Anderle

Author:Kevin McLaughlin & Michael Anderle [McLaughlin, Kevin & Anderle, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781642025156
Publisher: LMBPN Publishing
Published: 2019-10-21T22:00:00+00:00

Jim Washington felt like eyes were boring into the back of his neck, but he didn’t see anyone following him and ascribed the sensation to still working through PTSD. Sometimes, the worst part of being in a hostile situation was the waiting. At least when you were shooting, you knew where the enemy was. It was the rest of it that could make a man’s mind itch and eat itself alive.

Jim exited the People Mover and hurried off the platform, checking once more to make sure he wasn’t followed. He didn’t see anyone and hurried down the stairs before he heard the doors hiss shut.

He crossed Park Avenue and headed to the center of Grand Circus Park and the Edison fountain.

“Where the elephants play and the lights go away,” the poem had said.

Except it wasn’t a poem, but a rap lyric he and a buddy from Detroit had written when they were overseas together. It was supposed to be a dumb song about how nothing ever was what it promised to be when you grew up poor in Detroit—no elephants at the circus and lights that looked better on a postcard than in real life because they were out half the damn time.

That wasn’t the case anymore, of course. The city had changed.

So had his friend, apparently. Dwight Olsen was a noncommissioned officer Jim had met while serving in the Marines. They were both from Detroit but hadn’t known each other until they’d met overseas.

He had almost had a heart attack when he’d seen Dwight pull his mask off after the attack on the station. He had been a good man—not perfect because no one who grew up on the wrong side of the poverty line could afford to be perfect, but good all the same. Now, he tried to be a goddamn cop killer?

It simply didn’t make sense. Jim had reached out to him through back channels and hoped to meet at a bar where he could maybe get a few drinks in his old friend before he grilled him to discover his role in all this. Dwight, however, had seen right through that and sent the flowers with a note that only he would have understood.

Which meant that his friend was deep in this shit, deeper than he had wanted to believe.

Full of misgivings, he’d waited at the fountain and looked for the man he was supposed to meet. Part of him worried that he looked paranoid, but there were a handful of people waiting to meet someone, so he told himself he was merely being jittery.

Finally, after what felt like an eternity, Dwight sauntered out of the dark.

“Dwight, how are you, my man? What’s with all the cloak and dagger stuff?” he said, hoping to play on their friendship.

“I wanted to make sure you were still the Jim I served with.”

“I couldn’t forget those damn lyrics if I wanted to.”

“Oh, so you don’t want to?” Dwight smiled. It looked mostly genuine, although it was forced near his eyes.

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