An Officer and a Hitman: The Hitman Stories, #6

By Gary Jonas

A cop hires the hitman to kill him and his family.

When a highly publicized court case draws near, MS-13 gang members decide to take out the witnesses.  One of those witnesses is a cop, and he knows he's the next target for murder.

But the cop hires the hitman to beat them to it.

This story originally appeared in Blood Business.  It also appears in The Hitman Stories, an omnibus edition of all 6 hitman stories).

• Language: English
• Publisher: Denton & White
• Release date: Jan 5, 2019
• ISBN: 9781386051077

Gary Jonas

Gary Jonas is the author of the Jonathan Shade fantasy series, the novel One Way Ticket to Midnight, the story collection Quick Shots, and the novella Night Marshal: A Tale of the Undead West, the first in a new vampire western series that will be penned by various authors. His short fiction has appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines. Gary was born in Japan and has since lived in Ohio, Florida, Oklahoma, and Colorado, where he now resides.

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An Officer and a Hitman

AN OFFICER AND A HITMAN

by Gary Jonas

Originally published in Blood Business edited by Mario Acevedo and Joshua Viola, 2017

Detective Andrews leans across the table, fixes me with a cold, hard stare and says, How can you kill so many people and have no remorse?

I shrug. I used to work retail.

I’m serious, he says.

So am I. That’s not the answer he wants, but I’m not in a giving mood. The truth is that if you’ve pissed someone off enough that they’re willing to pay me to kill you, I figure you deserve it.

Fine, Andrews says, leaning back a bit. How many people have you killed?

Oh come on, officer—

Detective, he says.

"Whatever. I don’t notch my gun after each hit, and I damn