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    Hate Crime
    Hate Crime
    Hate Crime
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    Hate Crime

    By Terry Wright

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    In Book 9 of the Justin Graves Horror Series, Good Samaritan Jenny Vandenburg comes to the aid of an African immigrant being beaten and robbed by a couple of skinheads. One punk pulls a gun, kills the black man and shoots Jenny in the back. American justice put the shooter in jail for life, but his accomplice gets off on a technicality. He’s out of prison and back on the streets to wage war for white supremacy, prompting Justin to return from the grave and teach him a hard lesson in respect for his brothers of color.
    This story is based on the November 18, 1997 racially motivated killing of Oumar Dia, an African immigrant, at a downtown Denver bus stop, and the crippling of Good Samaritan Jeannie VanVelkinburg. Though the gunman, Nathan Thill, received life in prison, his accomplice, Jeremiah Barnum, got off on a technicality over tainted testimony. The names have been changed to protect the guilty.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTWB Press
    Release dateMay 11, 2012
    ISBN9781936991426
    Hate Crime
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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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      Hate Crime - Terry Wright

      Hate Crime

      By

      Terry Wright

      Copyright by Terry Wright 2012

      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.

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Cover art by Terry Wright

      ISBN 978-1-936991-42-6

      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      Hate Crime

      Bonus Short Story – The Perfect Crime

      About the Author

      TWB Book Catalog

      A new kind of justice is coming

      Texas Ranger Justin Graves and his rebellious daughter, Christy, are dead, both murdered by her drug-dealer boyfriend, Billy Denton. Due to Justin’s dedication to the department and long hours away from home, he blames himself for her life of crime, so he makes a deal with the devil to save her soul: one hundred bad guys in exchange for her pardon from hell. Now, in his rotting corpse, he returns from the grave to deliver the devil his dues, the souls of killers who’d gotten away with murder.

      This story is based on the November 18, 1997 racially motivated killing of Oumar Dia, an African immigrant, at a downtown Denver bus stop, and the crippling of Good Samaritan Jeannie VanVelkinburg. Though the gunman, Nathan Thill, received life in prison, his accomplice, Jeremiah Barnum, got off on a technicality over tainted testimony. The names have been changed to protect the guilty.

      By

      Terry Wright

      In the darkened room of a rundown house on the forgotten side of town, forty-one-year-old Jenny Vandenburg lay curled up on a sagging mattress, her body wracked with chronic pain from an old bullet wound in her back. Her wheelchair was parked an arm’s reach away, though she had no strength to actually reach out for it much less drag her damaged frame up onto the seat. In her right hand, she clutched a bottle of Dilaudid painkiller pills. It had been an agonizing five years since the shooting, and tonight, for the

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