Daughters

By Nathan Walpow

He looks for crimes that fall through the cracks, criminals who do horrible things to those who can't defend themselves and get away with it. His ex-wife was murdered years ago, but until a mysterious young woman magically appears at his apartment, he had no reason to find out who did it or why. Soon the two of them are traveling up and down the length of California in order to bring a killer - and maybe a couple of others who deserve it - to justice.

This short story features an early version of the character who became Logan, the urban vigilante antihero of "Logan's Young Guns."

"This guy is a hell of a writer" - Lee Child

• Language: English
• Publisher: Nathan Walpow
• Release date: Aug 25, 2015
• ISBN: 9781311865298

Nathan Walpow

Nathan Walpow’s Joe Portugal mystery series includes four novels. His Logan series of novellas includes "Logan's Young Guns," which will soon be joined by "Logan Shoots First." His novella “Push,” set in the world of professional wrestling, is an expansion of “Push Comes to Shove,” selected for the Best American Mystery Stories series. Nathan's story "Johnny and the Warehouse Women" is in the new crime fiction / science fiction anthology "Occupied Earth"; his story “A Good Day’s Work,” originally in Orange County Noir, has been optioned for a movie. Nathan is a past president of the Southern California chapter of Mystery Writers of America and a five-time Jeopardy! champion. Visit his website at www.walpow.com.

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Daughters

The kid under the freeway was just a henchman, so I winged him. Then I looked at his face and shot him through the head.

Not because he was a threat to me. Or much of one to the citizenry of Los Angeles. But there are tougher calls.

There was another kid once, no more than nineteen, and he'd gotten mixed up with some drug guys, and the real creeps were taken care of. But he was still holding a gun, so I shot him in the biceps. And he dropped the gun and looked at me, and you could see it in his face. I screwed up