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    Back to Hell: The Victor McCain Series
    Back to Hell: The Victor McCain Series
    Back to Hell: The Victor McCain Series
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    Back to Hell: The Victor McCain Series

    By Tony Acree

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    All Victor McCain wanted was to take the day off and relax. That was it. Hell had other ideas.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHydra Publications
    Release dateDec 12, 2018
    ISBN9781533769275
    Back to Hell: The Victor McCain Series

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      Book preview

      Back to Hell - Tony Acree

      Back to Hell

      Back to Hell

      A Victor McCain Short Story

      Microsoft Office User

      Hydra Publications

      Contents

      Also By

      1. Back to Hell

      About the Author

      Also By

      The Hand of God

      The Watchers

      The Speaker

      Nightmare

      Revenge

      The Victor McCain Collection

      This story is dedicated to the town of my birth, La Grange, Kentucky.

      1

      Back to Hell

      On my day off , all I wanted was a frickin' book to read and a glass of bourbon to sip. But as some smart dude named Robert Burns once wrote, the best laid schemes o' mice an' men often go awry. (See, I can be cultured once in awhile). And seems the phrase should include bounty hunters. Living my life as the Hand of God is full of hunting and killing things that hunt and kill other people and it often feels non stop. Which means even a brick like me needs a break every now and then.  

      When Detective Linda Coffey, my current paramore, asked me to spend the day with her wandering in and out of the small shops in La Grange, Kentucky, I decided I needed a play day and agreed to join her. Actually, she decided for me by telling me I owed her. And

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