System Failure: A Detective Ryan Chase Thriller

By M K Farrar

When the system fails, only murder will put it right...

 

A man is on the hunt.

He's been planning this for years, and is intent on getting revenge on the person who is responsible for destroying his life. 

Tonight is the night.

 

A short story in the Detective Ryan Chase series. 

 

 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Warwick House Press
• Release date: Jul 3, 2021
• ISBN: 9798201952723

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When the system fails, only murder will put it right.

P ull me up! Terror filled the man’s voice. Please, don’t do this!

It was three a.m., and no one was around to hear his cries.

The man dangled from the bridge, only the rope wrapped around his shins and tied to the metal railings preventing him from falling into the rushing waters of the River Avon below.

In the distance, Bristol’s city lights winked in the night sky. Light pollution meant the stars weren’t visible, but the moon was almost full, casting the world in a silvery glow.

Tonight, the captor embraced the darkness.

The man writhed and squirmed, reminding his captor of a moth trying to thrash its way out of a chrysalis. If he managed to free himself, however, it wouldn’t help him at all. All that would happen was he’d achieve what had already been planned, and he’d fall, headfirst into the river.

Not that it mattered. He was going to fall anyway.

Blood from the gash above the man’s eyebrow dribbled into his hairline. Fat droplets plummeted through the air and landed, unseen, into the river, the red vanishing in the gallons of churning water.

Normally, at this time of year, the water would be slower and not so deep, but the previous day one month of rain had fallen in twenty-four hours, so now the possibility of menace filled its black depths.

Please, you don’t have to do this. Let me go!

The captor leaned over the barrier to watch the struggling bug. Not going to happen.

He’d considered using tape to cover the man’s mouth, preventing this kind of exchange from happening, but if the body was found with residues of glue across his lips, the police would know this hadn’t been an accident, or even suicide. It was the same reason he’d snapped on a pair of gloves and had a baseball hat pulled down over his already short hair—though the hat would hide his face should he be caught on CCTV.