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    Devolution
    Devolution
    Devolution
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    Devolution

    By Christopher Gates

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    Debbie Chase is out to prove she's strong enough to run her father's security firm that caters to the super-rich. But trouble ensues when her most elite clients start turning up dead. More troubling is the bizarre method of their deaths and the complete mystery as to how they could have become so . . . transformed. She is determined to find out who is behind the murders and to stop them no matter what the costs. Her quest forces her to make impossible decisions and pits her against an evil more dangerous then she could have imagined. Is she really as strong as she thinks she is?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherChristopher Gates
    Release dateAug 6, 2014
    ISBN9781311776792
    Devolution
    Author

    Christopher Gates

    Born in Ohio, Christopher Gates has worked fighting forest fires in both California and Florida, he's volunteered with the Red Cross in Puerto Rico, and he's taught English as a second language in South Korea. He is currently earning a master's degree in English from an Ohio university. He started writing in his late teens and has completed dozens of short stories and two novels.

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      Devolution - Christopher Gates

      Devolution

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      Christopher Gates

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      Chapter 1

      Debbie parked in front of the looming mansion and grabbed her nine millimeter from the glove box. She tucked in her shirt and smoothed the logo, Chase Security then headed to the door. Mr. Bernstein had been one of the few men to accept her, a woman, as a personal bodyguard. Four years of previous service as an air force security specialist wasn't enough to convince most men that she knew what she was doing. But Mr. Bernstein always took her seriously and she appreciated that more than she let anyone know.

      She hadn't been to his estate since she inherited Chase Security from her father six months ago. Bernstein had requested to see her specifically. His paranoia had escalated since the Occupy Movement's splinter group Greed Bleed had formed and allegedly kidnapped, tortured and killed three wealthy individuals from the Los Angeles area alone.

      In the foyer she spoke into the intercom announcing her arrival and waited quietly under the cathedral ceiling. Several minutes passed and not a sound. She tried the intercom again.

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