The Promise (49 page)

              “Understandable. Well, I guess we better get you a new partner, Mike.”
 

             
“Sure, boss, right after I get back from Hawaii fulfilling my promise to Alisha when this case ended.”

              The Chief frowned, “Where are you getting the money to go to Hawaii? Our budget is not,”

              Gallagher cut him off, “Let’s just say it was a gift from some guy who owns a luxury condo in Maui, a very successful furniture salesman.”

              Parker smiled, “Well, you did bring his daughter back to him. There’s some symmetry in that. See you in a week.”

              As the detective walked out the door he looked back over his shoulder, “A week? You’ll be lucky if you see me in a month!

Alisha and I are going to have a second honeymoon. I’ll send you a postcard of a volcano.”

As he sneezed one more time, he smiled at his lucky leprechaun, “Don’t worry Mick, I’ll send you one, too. It’s the least I could do for my real partner.”

              Gallagher puffed on his cigar and then smiled for the first time in two months.

He even blew smoke circles on the NO SMOKING sign above the door. It felt good, too.

He was a damn good homicide detective.

The best there ever was.

THE END

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The original book in the Michael Gallagher Detective Series.

A
team of snipers is methodically killing 64 innocent American men, women and children every four days. They will not identify themselves nor do they have any ransom demands or political statements. They just keep killing. These attacks succeed in shutting down most of America. Three questions persist, who is the mastermind, why are they killing innocent citizens and what is the significance of the number 64?

Michael Gallagher, the homicide detective in Athens, Georgia, the site of the first attack
, is consumed with a passion to find those responsible for one of the early victims, his beloved daughter, Megan. He sets out to find the snipers and their leader putting him at risk with the FBI, CIA and other law-enforcement authorities who do not appreciate his involvement. Using good police work and the timely assistance of a female investigative reporter, Gallagher not only discovers the truth behind the massacres but puts a stop to the killings with the help of heroic, every day Americans who take their country back in a dramatic one day counterattack.

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