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    No Easy Way to Die
    No Easy Way to Die
    No Easy Way to Die
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    No Easy Way to Die

    By Kevin Paul Shaw Broden

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    Johnny Graves is a hired killer for the mob.
    For the right money, he'll kill anyone for his bosses.
    Tonight he's been given a new mark, but this time his orders are to keep the man alive at all costs.
    Find out more in this 10,000 word Short Story.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKevin Paul Shaw Broden
    Release dateDec 18, 2016
    ISBN9781370776337
    No Easy Way to Die
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    Kevin Paul Shaw Broden

    Seeking a career in comic books, Kevin Paul Shaw Broden took art courses throughout his education - only to eventually discover that no matter what the media, he was a storyteller at heart. Kevin has been telling stories ever since. His first published story was a science fiction tale that appeared in his college newspaper. Since then he has written for television animation, including the Japanese series MIDNIGHT HORROR SCHOOL. Kevin is a member of the Animation Writers Caucus of the Writers Guild of America, west, and a supporter of Women in Animation. He also wrote a well-received chapter story online called REVENGE OF THE MASKED GHOST, which has since been collected online with accompanying illustrations as REVENGE OF THE MASKED GHOST: 5TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION, along with a follow-up short story called "A Tale of The Scarlet Spirit: In The Clutches of Convicts". He hopes to do even more with these characters in the future. CLOCKWORK GENIE is Kevin’s first full-length novel, a paranormal romantic mystery originally debuting in late 2011 and re-released in a new edition in 2018, including new cover art. The CLOCKWORK GENIE MYSTERIES also includes a follow up short story called, "The Cop That Wouldn't Die: A Clockwork Genie Story". Additionally, Kevin's released short stories include the individually available titles "Murder on the Cosplay Express" and "No Easy Way to Die". For over the last fifteen years, Kevin has been illustrating and co-writing the online comic book FLYING GLORY AND THE HOUNDS OF GLORY which can be found at http://www.flying-glory.com The premise is: the granddaughter of the World War Two super heroine Flying Glory, Debra Clay discovers she has inherited super powers and convince her high school friends to become heroes to help promote their rock band.

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      No Easy Way to Die - Kevin Paul Shaw Broden

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      COPYRIGHT

      NO EASY WAY TO DIE

      By Kevin Paul Shaw Broden

      Copyright 2016 Kevin Paul Shaw Broden

      Smashwords edition – December 2016

      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 or a vendor partner and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of the author.

      Cover artwork by Kevin Paul Shaw Broden

      All characters appearing in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

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      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      COVER

      COPYRIGHT

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      AUTHOR'S NOTES - INTRODUCTION

      NO EASY WAY TO DIE

      ALSO BY KEVIN PAUL SHAW BRODEN

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      AUTHOR'S NOTES – INTRODUCTION

      When I was a young child, before reading books, before reading comic books filled with costumed super heroes, I would listen to the radio late at night. Each night there would be an hour of adventure and mystery. Some nights were masked mystery men like the Green Hornet and The Shadow, both of which I fell in love with. There were also many great mystery and detectives tales - from police dramas with Joe Friday of Dragnet, Private Detectives like Sam Spade, and other types of detectives like Johnny Dollar. Then there were the adventures, like Harry Lime of The Third Man, a crook at heart with very little redeeming value - especially if you had seen the original movie - yet in the radio series he still found ways to help people while he worked on his latest con and tried to avoid the police.

      These detectives and other adventuring heroes, all of whom tied back to the pulps, would have a major influence on me over the years to come, from writing and drawing super heroes in comics to writing my own pulp style heroes and detectives.

      I wasn't thinking of Harry Lime when I first conceived of Johnny Graves, the lead in NO EASY WAY TO DIE, but looking back now that it is finished I do see a bit of an influence. Graves is, simply put, a bad guy. A very bad guy, and while in the midst of committing the most horrendous of crimes, I wanted to discover if there were any redeemable qualities in him.

      From the very beginning, those Old-Time Radio programs have played a part of my life, and the story you are reading here is just one of them.

      Kevin Paul Shaw Broden

      Glendale, CA

      December 2016

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      NO EASY WAY TO DIE

      The little man walked past his apartment twice over a twenty-minute period before doubling back. He glanced in all directions to make certain no one had followed him. The street was quiet and empty at this hour. Finally, he went up the steps. Picking up the glass bottle of milk from the stoop, he looked over his shoulder one last time before putting the key in the lock.

      Once inside, he pulled the bolt across on all three locks, and hung the chain. In the kitchenette, he put a pan of water on the stove. Once the fire was lit, he let out a deep breath.

      Warm milk to soothe your stomach, eh Tweety?

      Tony 'Tweety' Gildonna spun upon his small heels at the voice. The milk bottle shattered against the floor as he saw who sat in the dark corner of his

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