The knife buried hilt deep in the pillow he’d been laying his head on just a moment before. There was a sickening snap as the man’s arm finally broke. It was followed by the prisoner snapping the heel of his hand into the jaw of the attacker.

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. They had been running CQB training… Close Quarters Battle. Effectively, he’d been in a cross between a bar-fight, a video game and a live-fire exercise for over twelve hours.

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Mostly I work toward writing novels, but I won’t pad the word count just to hit a goal. Grafton had four stories that I felt were complete, but each was well short of a novel on its own (obviously since the total is under 129k words). So, I use novellas to complete a collection.

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Ok, class, I need everyone to calm down,” Gunny said from the front of the room. To him, the popping that they thought might be fireworks had the distinct ring of an AK-47. He quickly made his way to the door to check out what was going on.

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Harv picked her up in the kind of hug she’d always wished for from her father. She could see when she looked at him how proud he was. Karie’s murder had brought the two of them together with a common goal to find the person that had done it.

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After our last vacation, I hadn’t stepped into the gym in ten days. I had been active on vacation, and hadn’t really picked up weight… but I knew I couldn’t let time pass.

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