Street Ranger (A Makaveli’s Prince Novella)

By Sam Hunter

Street hood Leon Brown escapes a prison sentence by agreeing to sign up with the US Army Rangers. His father’s friend and former Ranger pulled the necessary strings to make that happen and it was supposed to put Leon back on the straight and narrow. For a while it nearly did. But what would you do if your little sister was murdered?

Leon returns to Miami and hands down his own form of justice using the skills he’s learnt in combat. But the streets don’t play by the same rules and when he betrays the Ranger Creed he sets himself on a dark path.

Can Leon’s new code of honor triumph or will the streets corrupt him again?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Sam Hunter
• Release date: Jul 8, 2012
• ISBN: 9781476374888

Sam Hunter

Sam Hunter is the best selling author of the Makaveli's Prince books. His first novel, Book One, was described by Street Literature as a "true tribute to hip-hop" and weaves a thrilling ride through some of hip-hop's darkest secrets. The urban fiction genre has no rival when it comes to action, gun-play and life on the streets. Sam Hunter is a writer with depth, whose books you won't be able to put down. Packed with conspiracy, drama and centered on strong female characters, you're in for a ride.Sam Hunter welcomes you to reach out to him via Facebook and Twitter.

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Street Ranger

A Makaveli’s Prince Novella

Sam Hunter

Street Ranger

Sam Hunter

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Street Ranger is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or locales is purely coincidental.

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Smashwords Edition, 2012

‘Readily will I display the intestinal fortitude required to fight on to the Ranger objective and complete the mission though I be the lone survivor’

Ranger Handbook SH 21-76

ONE

Leon Brown regained consciousness face down in the dirt. His mouth was filled with blood and grit. It ground between his teeth but that was the least of his worries.

He may have only been in Iraq for just over a month and had come fresh from basic but he was a US Army Ranger. He was part of one of the world’s most elite light infantry units and this was exactly what he’d been trained for.

His whole body was battered from the explosive shockwave. An IED placed at the roadside by insurgents had just decimated his convoy.

Leon tried to blink his vision clear but dirt had been blasted in his eyes. For a second he thought he’d been blinded and was on the edge of panic. He calmed his nerves and reached for his canteen.

His ears were still ringing and he wasn’t sure whether he’d been thrown from his vehicle because of the blast or because his vehicle lay overturned in the ditch. The last few minutes were a complete blur. Either way, he knew the only thing that mattered was helping his comrades.

His days of putting himself first were behind him. He hadn’t feared being blinded because of what it would mean for him, rather that it would render him useless in fixing whatever the hell had just happened to his unit.

As his hearing began to return he could hear the screams of his comrades. He had to get to them. Leon tipped water over his face and continued blinking his eyes.

Less than a year before he wouldn’t have had such selfless thoughts. Leon Brown had been on the fast track to an early death or life in prison. His street career hadn’t been anything special but he’d been caught one too many