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    The Last Pursuit
    The Last Pursuit
    The Last Pursuit
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    The Last Pursuit

    By Rick Mofina

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    John Garrett is a cop aching to redeem himself for the mistake he made that destroyed two innocent lives and his own. He works alone to pursue the murderer he was escorting to trial, after their plane crashes in the unforgiving Rocky Mountains of the Pacific Northwest. This 5,800-word story by Rick Mofina is one of three gripping tales in his crime anthology, THREE TO THE HEART.

    Rick Mofina is a former crime reporter and the award-winning author of several notable thrillers.

    The International Thriller Writers, The Private Eye Writers of America and The Crime Writers of Canada have listed Rick Mofina's titles as being among the best in the world.

    His books have been published in some 21 countries and have been praised by James Patterson, Dean Koontz, Michael Connelly, Lee Child, Tess Gerritsen, Jeffery Deaver, Sandra Brown, James Rollins, Brad Thor, Nick Stone, David Morrell, Allison Brennan, Heather Graham, Linwood Barclay, Peter Robinson, Håkan Nesser and Kay Hooper. For more information please visit www.rickmofina dot com .

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRick Mofina
    Release dateApr 7, 2012
    ISBN9781927114339
    The Last Pursuit
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    Rick Mofina

    Rick Mofina is a USA TODAY bestselling author of more than thirty crime fiction thrillers that have been published in nearly thirty countries. A former journalist, he has interviewed murderers on death row, flown over Los Angeles with the LAPD and patrolled with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police near the Arctic. He has also reported from the Caribbean, Africa, Kuwait and Qatar. He is a two-time winner of the Crime Writers of Canada Award of Excellence, a Barry Award winner, and a multiple finalist for the International Thriller Writers Thriller Award and the Shamus Award, presented by the Private Eye Writers of America. Library Journal calls him ""one of the best thriller writers in the business.""

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      The Last Pursuit - Rick Mofina

      THE LAST PURSUIT

      A Short Story

      RICK MOFINA

      Title

      Introduction

      The Last Pursuit

      Contact Rick Mofina

      Other Short Stories

      About the Author

      Also by Rick Mofina

      Praise for Rick Mofina’s Books

      Copyright © 2010 & 2012 by Rick Mofina

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the creation of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons living or dead, business establishments, events or locales is entirely coincidental.

      The Last Pursuit

      Rick Mofina

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright © 2012 Rick Mofina

      Copyright © 2010 Rick Mofina

      ISBN 978-1-927114-33-9

      e-Formatting provided by Carrick Publishing

      This e-book is intended for your personal enjoyment only. This e-book may not be sold or given away to other people. If you’re reading this e-book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      INTRODUCTION

      The story, The Last Pursuit, was selected by the Crime Writers' Association of the United Kingdom to appear in its anthology, Original Sins.

      It is included in my e-anthology, Three to the Heart, my second small collection of short stories which is the follow up to my first anthology, Dangerous Women and Desperate Men.

      I regard the stories collected in Three to the Heart to be among the best of my short crime fiction.

      Rick Mofina

      Rmofina @ gmail dot com

      THE LAST PURSUIT

      by Rick Mofina

      clinked in the Maximum Security Unit of Saskatchewan Penitentiary as eight men, four of them prison staff, approached the last cell at the end of the corridor, the one segregated from the rest of the population.

      Inside on his cot, inmate Robert Lazarus Yacine, turned his attention from his worn paperback copy of Nietzsche’s, Beyond Good and Evil to consider the traces of cologne and cheap motel shampoo that had arrived outside his door.

      Time to go, Powers, the deputy warden, said.

      Yacine stood and slid his hands through the portal of his cell door. Cold steel tightened around his wrists and snapped.

      "Step back,

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