Retiring the Blue: Black Talon

By Chris Winder

He was months from retirement.

Officer Dennis Drewer of Los Angeles' 73rd Precinct was only two months away from retirement when his job vanished.

All over the city, police officers are being replaced by robots. The machines don't get paid overtime. Their programming doesn't allow for biased behavior. They can't be bribed.

They do have a flaw, though, and it takes death and an explosion to bring it to light.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Chris Winder Books
• Release date: Jul 20, 2019
• ISBN: 9781393449751

Chris Winder

Chris Winder is a Science Fiction author, former United States Marine, husband, and father. His stories include Space Trash, a comic science fiction novel, Breach Team, a space Marine novel (co-written with best-selling author JR Handley), What Really Matters, a story told in the Four Horsemen Universe of Chris Kennedy Publishing, and more. Chris Winder lives in northern Arizona where he enjoys the peace and quiet of rural living along with his wife, youngest child, elderly dog, and two obnoxious but adorable cats.

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Retiring the Blue

Black Talon

Chris Winder

Published by Chris Winder Books, 2019.

This is a work of fiction. Similarities to real people, places, or events are entirely coincidental.

RETIRING THE BLUE

First edition. July 20, 2019.

Copyright © 2019 Chris Winder.

ISBN: 978-1393449751

Written by Chris Winder.

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I stared at the window across the street with as much hate as I could muster. The bastard was probably in there drinking coffee or talking to someone important like it was just another day. He was a politician, and like the rest of them, as worthless as the day was long.

You trying to kill him with your eyeballs? Carl asked from the passenger seat of my used hovercar. Because I don’t think you’ll even give him a nosebleed from here.

I’m trying, I said, amused at his comment. We been partners for the last year and had learned to read each other's body language. Is it murder if I only use my eyeballs and some stern looks?

Probably not, he said. Might be the perfect murder.

You’re staring at the back of my head, I said, right?

I’m just testing to see if it works at closer range, he replied, laughing. The sound of his laughter always made me want to punch something, but I’d never told him. He sounded like he was saying, hyuk like some kind of cartoon. I didn’t think he was faking it, but I wanted him to laugh like a normal person or not at all. It wasn’t important enough to tell him about, though. Not when I’d relied on him for the last year to keep me alive and watch my back.

It’s a real shame, Carl said as he opened his