Kill Leader

By Mark Troy

Paula Evangelista—Vengelista—is at the top of the beach volleyball circuit. Knocking down kill after kill, she is trying to regain her title of kill leader. But someone wants to put an end to her streak and maybe an end to her life. It is up to Honolulu private eye, Val Lyon, to find out who wants to kill the kill leader and prevent it from happening or end up as another kill herself.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mark Troy
• Release date: Aug 31, 2011
• ISBN: 9781465899842

Mark Troy

Mark Troy is a native of St. Louis, Missouri. He and his wife served as Peace Corps Volunteers in Thailand where they taught English and supervised student teachers. After the Peace Corps, the Troys moved to Hawaii for graduate school. They now live in Texas where Mark is an administrator and researcher at the Texas A&M University. Mark has degrees from Quincy University, Washington University and the University of Hawaii. The Troys have two sons a daughter-in-law, one granddaughter and one grandson.When not writing, Mark runs marathons. He has completed 18 so far.

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Kill Leader

by

Mark Troy

Published by Ilium Books at Smashwords

Copyright 1999 Mark Troy

All rights reserved. The use of any part of this publication reproduced, transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written consent of the publisher is an infringement of the copyright law.

Originally published by Plots With Guns, 1999

Republished in Killer Fiction, Sniplits Publishing, 2010

Discover other titles by Mark Troy at Smashwords.com:

Pilikia Is My Business - http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/25474

The Big Dance With Death -http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/81848

Drop Dead Zone http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/83474

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Paula Evangelista’s weapon was her fabulous arm speed. On this day, at Oahu's Dolphin Bay Resort, it was on display. She leapt high in the air, swung her fist through the top of the arc, and crushed the volleyball over the net. It exploded in the sand, centimeters from the hands of a diving Karen Szymanski. Another kill for Vengelista.

My weapon was a Colt .357 magnum with a two inch barrel. It was not on display. I wore it holstered in the small of my back beneath an oversized tank top. The gun was canted so that the grip nestled against my left kidney. I could get to it before you could say Sarah Connor.

As captain of Team Sandblasters, Paula was the all-time kill leader on the beach, averaging twelve kills a game in