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    Opening Shots! Long Time Dying
    Opening Shots! Long Time Dying
    Opening Shots! Long Time Dying
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    Opening Shots! Long Time Dying

    By Solomon Carter

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    Mystery, danger, suspense and nerve-shredding action as we meet Eva Roberts and Dan Bradley, private investigators at the very beginning of their crime thriller adventure.

    Could you risk it all to protect the innocent?

    In this short read opening shot, Eva and Dan take on an unusual case to track down a runaway husband. But from the moment they take it on they are snared in a web of lust, lies and corruption and must risk everything to break free. 

    A simple case will become anything but as Eva Roberts and Dan Bradley are embroiled in a fiendish plot destroying the lives of all those it touches...

    This is the Opening Shot of The Long Time Dying Crime Thriller series...  the adventure continues in the thirteen-book full-length crime thriller series

    Series list - in reading order

    1.            Out With A Bang

    2.            One Mile Deep

    3.            Long Time Dying

    4.            Never Back Down

    5.            Crossing The Line

    6.     Divide & Rule

    7.     Better The Devil

    8.     On Borrowed Time

    9.     The Dirty Game

    10.   Only Live Once

    11.   Behind The Mask

    12.   The Dark Tide

    13.   Lucky For Some

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSolomon Carter
    Release dateMar 27, 2016
    ISBN9781524207854
    Opening Shots! Long Time Dying
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    Solomon Carter

    Author of the Long Time Dying series, Solomon Carter grew up with crime and has worked around crime throughout his career. Born under a good sign, Solomon got lucky and didn't get addicted to crime or the lifestyle so easily available. Born in Southend, Essex, Solomon lived in South London, enjoying the sights, sounds, smokes, drinks and eats available for several years before coming back to Southend to write books and change the world. it's a big job, but someone's got to do it. Solomon lives in Southend with writer wife and children Batman and Black Canary, aged 3 years and 6 months respectively. Interests: staying sane in a hectic town on a seriously crazy world. Keeping the faith. Helping others do the same. Enjoying nature. Drinking neat scotch, sometimes vodka. Works out. Runs. Eats chocolate. Acts tough. Isn't that tough. Strong. Determined. On a mission. A writer since childhood, fascinated by the good and bad in all of us, a witness to how crime and addiction affects families from the inside out, and a believer that people can change if they really really want to. An alumnus of Goldsmiths College, London, on a mission to deliver entertainment, excitement to readers all over the world on the one hand, and to live the most authentic, inspiring and free wheeling adventure that life has to offer along the way. Join me for the ride. It's going to be fun. The Long Time Dying series brings an electric love affair into explosive contact with crime in the streets of Essex and London. Eva Roberts and Dan Bradley are ceaseless in pursuit of their quarry... Pick up the Long Time Dying series today.

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      Opening Shots! Long Time Dying - Solomon Carter

      Opening Shots! Long Time Dying

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      Once you’d been in a boxing gym like the Southchurch Boys’ Club you could never get it out of your system. And once you’d trained in a boxing gym as long as Dan, the sensation was always there, like the memory of a passionate kiss. The first time anyone visits a boxing gym, what hits them is the smell, thick with men’s sweat - not the unwashed stink of fermented body odour, but the layered, built-up saline scent of constant work and leather and old-worn sports kit. And as soon as you’re past the smell, what gets you next is in the rough-edged environment. At some point every man in a boxing gym knows he is going to fight, and he is definitely going to get hurt. When Dan visited his first Boys’ Club in Barking - back when he lived and worked in London - the smell, the fear, and the excitement all rolled into one utterly addictive high. Maybe the old Roman gladiators had smelt, trained and fought like this. A boys’ club couldn’t have been made any more primitive. Or more amazing. The constant sparring reminded Dan of the training scenes from Spartacus. Kirk Douglas slugging it out to stay alive, a sheen of oil and sweat all over his lean torso. In every boxing contest, it came down to the same thing. No matter what anyone said, boxers were gladiators and it was no hyperbole. It was a fact of life. Dan’s first moment inside the bittersweet stink of a boxing gym was now twenty years ago. But the glorious tradition, the pleasure, the fear, the adrenaline would never leave him. In spite of Eva’s regular protests, Dan was often at the Boys’ Club on Saturday morning, sweating, enduring blows to the gut and head from a boy eight years his junior, and nowadays the difference in age showed. Any trainer could see the younger man would have

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