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    "Action In Motion" and Other Stories

    By Thomas P. Hanna

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    In each of these four unrelated What will happen? stories someone works to conceal where someone else is to prevent unpleasant, illegal, and/or murderous consequences.
    Action in Motion: Revenge-seeking kidnappers hide their victim by riding the subways with him while their demands are considered and the search for them goes on.
    A Shark Is a Rat: A police anti-drug program gets a break when a former big fish in their pond who was silenced by the drug gang reappears and provides evidence against the gang and starts dominoes falling.
    Out of Sight: A foreign dictator wants the American woman diplomat who publicly shamed him killed and uses his diplomatic immunity and various hired help to try to do that. Her protectors’ main strategy is to keep her location secret from him and certain U.S. officials.
    Bank Box Surprise: Two women use a cat burglar to swap fake copies of jewelry for the real items which they then sell. Then they reward him with a lethal surprise delivered at his bank’s safe deposit box. His sister resolves to gives them copycat payback.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThomas P. Hanna
    Release dateAug 21, 2015
    ISBN9781310914270
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    "Action In Motion" and Other Stories
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    Thomas P. Hanna

    After years of teaching high school and then college biology I retired to write. I am back living in Philadelphia, PA where I was born and raised.

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