When the Man Comes Around: A Gripping Crime Thriller (Lawson Raines Book 1) by Bradley Wright

Author:Bradley Wright
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: King's Ransom Publishing
Published: 2018-06-26T22:00:00+00:00

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Lawson ran onto the casino floor to a slot machine chorus of bing-bing-bing-bong-bong-bong-bong. He saw the men on the main path, following the signs to the exit out to the Strip. Lawson decided to try a shortcut through the rows of slot machines. Halfway through them, he could see that it was going to pay off because he was now closing in on Johnny. But when Johnny tried to slow his momentum and take a left toward the exit, the slick marble under his feet took its toll, and Johnny went sliding on his side into a rail that separated the gaming area from the slick surface of the entrance. The two men slid to a stop right in front of Johnny, and one man pulled his pistol and shouted at Johnny to get up. Lawson closed the distance, hurdled a trash can, and dove at the gunman, taking him to the ground with a double-arm tackle.

“Run, Johnny!” Lawson shouted. “Out to the Strip! Blend in with the crowd!” Lawson raised himself off the man, holding the man’s wrist in his hand, and slammed the man’s hand down on the marble. The man’s gun skittered across the floor.

Lawson glanced back over his shoulder, and De Luca’s other man had managed to grab Johnny before he could get away.

“Where’s the flash drive, Johnny? I know you have it,” the man shouted as he shook Johnny by the shirt.

Lawson punched the man below him in the forehead, then grabbed him by his dark hair and slammed the back of his head against the marble.

“I . . . I don’t know what you’re talking about!” Johnny answered.

The man punched him in the stomach. Johnny bent over at the knees and gasped for air. Lawson rose to his feet and turned toward Johnny’s attacker.

“Why don’t you try hitting me like that?”

The man straightened Johnny up and held him in place by the front of his shirt. Then he turned to look at Lawson. Lawson recognized the man’s face from the meeting with De Luca at STK.

The man’s expression was smug. “Thought you were supposed to be working for us?”

Lawson shrugged his shoulders. “Things change. Let him go, and I’ll let you live.”

“Who the hell do you think you are?”

“Right now?” Lawson stalled. “I’m the man who’s going to stop you from getting that flash drive. Later? I’ll be the man standing over your boss’s dead body.”

“You’d have to get by me first, Raines. And there’s no chance in hell you’re man enough for that.”

The man smirked as he reached for his waistline.

Lawson shouted, “Knee, Johnny!”

The man looked back at Johnny, giving Lawson’s words enough time to register. Johnny shot his knee toward the man’s groin. He missed, but still hit him in the lower midsection hard enough for the man to flinch and let go.

“Give me the flash drive!” Lawson shouted to Johnny. But the man had already recovered. As Lawson closed the eight-foot distance between them, the man once again reached for his gun.

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