Talon of God by Wesley Snipes

Author:Wesley Snipes
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2017-07-24T16:00:00+00:00

10

Birth to Sin

Each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire.

Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and

sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.

—James 1:14–15

Will had never been good at following directions.

He was fine most of the time, but when orders came down that interfered with how he thought a case should be run, the words tended to go in one ear and out the other. Normally, he got away with this by achieving results. It was hard to punish a detective who regularly cracked hard cases. Today, though, Will was pushing it even by his standards. Not only was he back at the station (where he’d been specifically ordered by Chief Korigan not to be) and on his nineteenth hour of unreported overtime (in direct violation of Chicago PD officer safety regulations), he was at his desk calling contacts for a case he’d been ordered not to touch.

Any of those could mean serious trouble. All together, it was a trifecta that could cost him his badge. Another cop, one with more to lose, would have realized that and gone home. But Will was as bad at letting things go as he was at following directions he didn’t agree with, and after the run-in with Korigan this morning, he was more determined than ever to bust this case wide open.

He just wished the case would cooperate.

After leaving the hospital, Will had gotten straight to work. Ten years as a vice detective had given him an impressive network among the street pushers and gangs all across Chicago, and he worked it like a spider checking its web, tapping each thread to see what he’d caught. But unlike yesterday when no one had known anything about a drug that made people go crazy, everyone was buzzing today about this new thing called Z3X. As one of his meth cooker contacts explained it, Z3X was an additive that was supposed to enhance the effects of other drugs. And apparently it worked—when he had access to it, he was able to sell triple the amount of rocks by cutting his product, and had people begging for seconds.

For a while, though, there wasn’t much he could do, because there wasn’t all that much to be had. Apparently Z3X had been around for months now in smaller doses, but since it was touted as nothing more than a cost cutter and it wasn’t actually illegal by itself, no one had thought much of it. But starting yesterday, someone had been dumping the stuff on Chicago by the truckload. Literally.

The last bit was so bizarre Will hadn’t believed it at first, but every dealer, cooker, and pusher he talked to swore up and down that late last night, giant pallets of Z3X had just started showing up, arriving on huge flatbeds that were circling the South Chicago neighborhoods like ice cream trucks. But it wasn’t just an increase in supply. These new loads of Z3X were supposed

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