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    Z-motors
    Z-motors
    Z-motors
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    Z-motors

    By Terry Wright

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    The owner of Z-motors has a problem with his employees. They are brainless zombies who eat their customers. He needs a mechanic with a brain, so he places a Help Wanted ad in a Denver newspaper. Unemployed Jim Lowry is looking for a job as a Master Mechanic. The perfect position opens up in a small-town auto repair shop on the Colorado plains. He loads his family into their SUV and sets out for Z-motors. He’s about to apply for the job from hell.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTWB Press
    Release dateDec 30, 2011
    ISBN9781936991327
    Z-motors
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    Terry Wright

    There’s nothing mundane in the writing world of Terry Wright. Tension, conflict and suspense propel his readers through the pages as if they were on fire. Published in Science Fiction and Supernatural, his mastery of the action thriller has won him International acclaim as an accomplished screenplay writer. A longtime member of the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers, he runs their annual Colorado Gold Writing Contest. Terry lives near Denver with his wife, Bobette, and their Yorkie, Taz Man. He invites you to visit his Web site at www.terrywrightbooks.com.

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      Z-motors - Terry Wright

      Z-motors

      By

      Terry Wright

      Copyright by Terry Wright 2011

      Published by TWB Press at Smashwords

      All rights reserved. No part of this story (eBook) may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission of the author, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or book reviews.

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidences are either a product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to any actual person, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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      Cover art by Terry Wright

      ISBN 978-1-936991-32-7

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      Terry Wright

      The temperature topped 120 degrees in the shop, but the excessive heat didn’t bother the mechanics at Z-motors or the owner, Dean Zyla, who wore his usual suit and tie. From his chair in the service office, he watched his men working in the shop bays through a large plate-glass window. Mrs. Miller’s Ford Taurus was lifted up on a hoist in Bay One. It appeared that his mechanics were looking over her car’s exhaust system.

      The car was in for an oil change. Aside from the standard up-sells of brake and cooling system flushes, they seemed to be looking

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