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    The Sellouts
    The Sellouts
    The Sellouts
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    The Sellouts

    By Jeffrey Alan Henning

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    When you're a human with extraordinary powers and you take a job capturing humans with extraordinary powers, what are you? A Sellout, that's what!

    For years, humans with extraordinary powers have been surfacing in the world, and for years, no one could match them - until one company started hiring them to police the bad ones.

    Agent Matthew Hendrix, A.K.A. “Chancer”, works for TSO, a company contracted by the United States Government to capture and detain these “humans with extraordinary powers”. He thinks he’s saving people, but the people call him and TSO Agents like him - those with powers - “Sellouts” for being paid to turn on their own kind.

    Having the ability to change the luck around him, but not always being able to control it, Chancer inadvertently stumbles upon a plot that could threaten the entire world.

    Can he and The Sellouts save the world?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJeffrey Alan Henning
    Release dateAug 6, 2015
    ISBN9781310503924
    The Sellouts
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    Jeffrey Alan Henning

    Jeffrey Alan Henning currently resides in Colorado Springs and works as a Network Defense Analyst for MEIT. He currently holds a degree in Creative Writing for Entertainment Bachelor of Arts degree at Full Sail University and is currently working on self-publishing his works.

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      Table of Contents

      Other books by Jeffrey Alan Henning

      Prologue

      Chapter 1

      Chapter 2

      Chapter 3

      Chapter 4

      Chapter 4

      Chapter 5

      Chapter 6

      Chapter 7

      Chapter 8

      Chapter 9

      Chapter 10

      Chapter 11

      Chapter 12

      Chapter 13

      Epilogue

      Prologue

      January 25th, 1915 1:03 AM

      The opera, Madame Sans-Gêne, was barely past intermission when Tina Oslett ran from the Metropolitan Opera in New York City as fast as she could, throwing her knock-off fur coat over her shoulders. The snow was falling lightly over the fur as she pulled it close to her.

      Mrs. Oslett! Please wait! Let me explain! a man shouted after her.

      She stopped quickly and pointed her finger in the man’s face. Mr. Dunsby! I can not believe you would propose such a thing! Shame on you and your family! What would your wife think?

      Please, we don’t have to tell her. We can just forget this ever happened and go back to finish the opera. Mr. Dunsby said quietly, trying to grab her arm.

      She shook away from his arm and stalked off, raising her arm for one of the new-fangled taxis. She wouldn’t get very far with the little money she had, but she decided anywhere was better than here right now. The taxi was loud as it pulled up. The cabbie jumped out quickly and rushed to open the door for her, tipping his hat and saying Good evening, Miss. as he did so. He ran around the cab quickly and jumped back into the driver’s seat.

      Where to Miss? he asked her.

      She fished out a few pennies. How far will three pennies get me towards Brooklyn? she asked him quietly.

      Almost the whole way for a pretty lass like you. he said as he started driving.

      Tina gave a dark look towards Mr. Dunsby as the cab lurched forward.

      Rough night, Miss? the cabbie asked.

      No offense to you Sir, but I’d rather not talk about it. she said as she pulled her short fur coat over as much of her legs as she could.

      The cabbie tipped his hat with a quick glance back. Sorry Miss, I didn’t mean anything by it, just usually talk on the drive is all. he said quickly.

      The streets weren’t crowded at all at this time of night, so the trip was relatively short. The cabbie took her as far as her three pennies would take her and stopped twelve blocks short of her apartment. The cabbie ran around and opened the door for her, and held his hand out to help her out.

      Mind the puddle, Miss. he said as she stepped over it.

      Thank you for the ride. she said as she handed him the only money she had on her.

      Be careful on these streets, Miss. he said with another tip of his hat. He walked around and got into his cab, driving off through the light snow.

      Tina didn’t say anything to him as she started walking towards her small one bedroom apartment that she shared with one of her girlfriends. She was thinking about Mr. Dunsby and how she had to go back to work for him in the morning, even though he had given her tomorrow off if she would come to the opera with him. She had agreed only because he said he was meeting clients and would need her to take notes for him. He lied. He wanted her. She shook her head as she cursed quietly.

      The lights from buildings on the street dimly lit her path, some were flickering, and all were casting strange shadows. She was mostly watching the ground as she walked, careful of slipping on the ice in her best heels when she had bumped into someone. He seemed to come out of nowhere.

      Excuse me, Sir. she apologized. When she got a good look at him, she noticed he was wearing dirty clothes, his face was unshaven, and the top of his head was bald. He looked back at her and looked her up and down.

      You’ll do nicely! he said.

      Suddenly a hand was covering her mouth and she was being dragged into the alleyway by another man she hadn’t noticed. She screamed through the hand.

      Quiet down, or I’ll have to hurt you. the first man said quietly, brandishing a pocket knife. Hurry up, get her to the back wall. he told the man dragging her.

      I’m tryin’ to, but she’s wigglin’ too much. the other man said as he finally just lifted her off the ground with his second hand around her waist.

      Tina continued to scream through the hand, and kick and punch at the man holding her. It had no effect. She doubted he even felt it through his thick coat.

      Put her over the crate there. the man with the knife said as they neared the back of the alleyway.

      Tina was slammed down hard on her back over the crate so that her head and her feet were dangling off the ends. She tried to punch and kick, but the first man had grabbed both of her tiny wrists in one hand, and still clamped his hand over her mouth, pushing her head down at an angle that hurt.

      The man with the knife used it to cut her cheap fur coat down the front, ripping it open furiously. He smiled an ugly toothless grin as he cut the front of her dress from her bosom down to the end. The only sounds coming from the alleyway were her muffled cries and the ripping of fabric as he tore her nicest dress off and

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