Forced Partnership

By Robert Jeschonek

FORCED HEROICS BOOK 3. Hero-on-sidekick violence explodes in this hard-hitting super-hero tale. Why does Partycrasher, dark avenger of the night, give his sidekick (also codenamed "Partycrasher") the beating of a lifetime? Could it be the cowled crusader has fallen under the influence of sexy reformed bad girl Linda Loveblind, aka Partygirl? Or has the sidekick truly committed a heinous crime for which there can be no forgiveness? Maybe the answer is none of the above. A much deeper and darker delusion might be dominating the shadowy super-knight's mind. His sidekick begs for mercy and fights to break through before it's too late...but he's quickly running out of time. With each passing moment and punishing blow, the attack looks more like a murder in the making. Don't miss this exciting tale by award-winning storyteller and DC Comics writer Robert T. Jeschonek, a master of unique and unexpected superhero adventures that really pack a punch.

Contents
Short story plus novel preview

Reviews

"Robert Jeschonek is the literary love child of Tim Burton and Neil Gaiman..." – Adrian Phoenix, critically acclaimed author of The Maker's Song series and Black Dust Mambo

"Robert Jeschonek is a towering talent..." – Mike Resnick, Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author

"Jeschonek ́s stories are delightfully insane, a pleasure to read..." – Fabio Fernandes, Fantasy Book Critic

About the Author

Robert T. Jeschonek is an award-winning writer whose fiction, comics, essays, articles, and podcasts have been published around the world. DC Comics, Simon & Schuster, and DAW have published his work. His young adult urban fantasy novel, My Favorite Band Does Not Exist, is now available from Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and was named one of Booklist’s Top Ten First Novels for Youth.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Robert Jeschonek
• Release date: Feb 17, 2012
• ISBN: 9781465713124

Book preview

Forced Partnership

FORCED PARTNERSHIP

A SUPERHERO TALE

ROBERT JESCHONEK

Blastoff Books

CONTENTS

Also by Robert Jeschonek

Forced Partnership

About the Author

Special Preview: Forced Retirement

FORCED PARTNERSHIP

Copyright © 2023 by Robert Jeschonek

www.robertjeschonek.com

Cover Art Copyright © 2023 by Ben Baldwin

www.benbaldwin.co.uk

This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

All rights reserved by the author.

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Forced Betrayal

Forced Retirement

Heroes of Global Warming

Not-So-Fortunate Son

Seven Comic Book Scripts Volume One

Seven Comic Book Scripts Volume Two

Seven Comic Book Scripts Volume Three

Six Superhero Stories Volume One

The Wife Who Never Was

FORCED PARTNERSHIP

ONE NIGHT IN ISOSCELES CITY...

My favorite super-hero pounds me with his fists. I can almost see the spiky sound effect balloons fly up with each punishing blow to my head. Boom! Pow! Wham!

Krack. That's the sound of my cheekbone snapping. The un-super cheekbone of a very un-super man. The super-hero battering me has unbreakable bones and the strength of ten men, but I've got nothing like that.

Even though we both wear the same black and gray costume and go by the same code name. Even though we both call ourselves Partycrasher.

Stop it! Stop hurting me! I blubber the words through my shattered teeth and swollen lips. "How can you do this to your number one backup? Your chief deputy in the Party Line?"

At least that makes him put my beating on pause. For the last time! He's so furious, he spits in my face while he screams at me. "You are not my backup!"

I cower on the sidewalk at his feet. Please don't say that! What's wrong with you?

"You're not in the Party Line, and we've never had a team-up!" He hauls back