Zero Sum by Russell Blake

Author:Russell Blake
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Mystery, Financial, Action & Adventure, Thrillers & Suspense, Thriller & Suspense, Thrillers, Thriller, Literature & Fiction
Publisher: Reprobatio Ltd
Published: 2011-09-18T23:00:00+00:00

Her parents rarely mentioned Dani after the police concluded their investigation. He’d suffered massive brain damage from the blow to his skull, and after weeks of lying in intensive care, he’d hemorrhaged uncontrollably while in a coma, dying alone in the middle of the night. Without any further information, there wasn’t enough evidence to solve the case; his killers had left no clues. Some broken glass, a few muddy footprints in the house, but nothing that ever led to an explanation of why a young man’s life had been extinguished on a rainy summer morning.

Nobody had seen anything from the neighboring homes, and nobody came forward to advance a story. Drugs were hypothesized, local gang involvement, revolutionary terrorist cells around the university, jealous attacks by angry boyfriends; all were floated, and ultimately, none explained anything.

A part of her parents died that morning, as did a piece of Antonia. The family tried to put the grisly attack and Dani’s death behind them, but it changed everything; there was always the time before that day, and the time after. It seemed so long ago now, at least twenty years, but every now and then the shadows came to visit, and the dream would come, unannounced.

She hated the rat dream.

She hated that it had returned once again, complicating everything further.

Antonia knew tonight would be a long night; a night when sleeping pills and dozing with the lights on was an unwelcome but necessary ritual. She resigned herself to yet another encounter with her demons, and decided whatever happened, she wouldn’t let the past interfere with her present anymore. She wasn’t nine, and the bites had long ago healed over.

She hoped she could make good on that commitment.

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