Shock and Awe by Hervey Copeland

Author:Hervey Copeland [Copeland, Hervey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-10-22T22:00:00+00:00

Matt stood completely still and looked down at the young man who was lying on his couch. The red patch underneath his chest had spread out and made its way down the side of the furniture and on to the floor, where it had formed an almost perfect circle. There was also blood on the wall behind the couch, telling Matt that the guy had been sitting up when he had been shot.

It was also abundantly clear that the guy was dead. Matt had seen enough dead bodies in his life to last him a lifetime. The guy must have lost close to half a gallon of blood, and no one could survive that.

Matt had discovered him pretty much straight away after he’d entered the living room. But he’d had enough sense to go through the rest of the house first and make sure there was no one else there before returning to the body.

He had searched each room methodically, and after a couple of minutes of intense mental pressure, and a foreboding feeling that he was going to end up in a shootout with the person that had killed the guy on the couch, he had returned to the living room and the spot where he was now currently standing.

Matt had absolutely no idea who the man was and why he had been killed. And he had even less of an idea why the guy had been killed inside his house, and what the hell he had been doing there in the first place.

Ideally, Matt would have liked to have a look at the man’s wallet so he could figure out who he was, but he had enough sense not to touch the body. There was no need to leave fingerprints on a murder victim, and especially one that was located in his own house. It was a job for the police to establish the identity of the deceased and figure out why he had been killed, and by whom. Matt would soon enough find out the details when the media caught wind of it.

He also knew that the police would treat him as a prime suspect, or at least think that he had somehow been involved in the murder. And especially now, after they had informed him that he was their number one suspect in the slaying of the cartel boss in downtown Phoenix a few days prior. Was this murder somehow related to that incident? Had the young man died because of Senor Rodriguez?

Matt kept his eyes on the dead man and reflected on how calm he was despite having found a dead body in his living room. He hadn’t freaked out, lost his nerve and stormed out of the house. No, he had kept going, and only put his guard down once he knew he was alone in the house.

He knew that the reaction would come later on, and that he would relive this moment hundreds of times in the coming months. He would also think

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