Hell's Canyon #90

By D. E. Harrison

Rage has always wanted to run a river. What better place could she find close to home than Hell’s Canyon. Of course, she has signed them up before she asks Sergeant Jones if he would like to go.
They arrive at the sign in place, and she has them on different rafts. She in on #1 and Jones is on #3 raft. They are to be strangers on the river. Before they leave on the rafting trip, a fellow gets sick and cannot go. By chance, an extra rider is available even though the trip was full. Jones suspects something is wrong. Can the Colonel figure out what is a foot?
Everything is going well, until the guides offer a small taste of a level V rapid. A piece of the river is high in one location. Of course Rage and Jones can handle it, plus five others wish to go. The replacement for the sick fellow wants to go also. The #3 raft is out-fitted for a more dangerous ride. Jones finds something he does not like on the raft. He does not want to use the raft for anything but how does he stop it from being used?
Rage decks, with a straight left, the substitute person for the fellow that got sick and ends up in a fight.
The Colonel is having a jet fighter fire a missile into the canyon in the middle of the night where the rafters are. Does he have a squadron of fighters ready to attack the entire canyon?
What has Rage gotten Jones into?

• Language: English
• Publisher: D. E. Harrison
• Release date: May 5, 2023
• ISBN: 9798215169018

D. E. Harrison

I am trained as a theoretical mathematician. I am an emeritus member of the American Mathematical Society for fifty odd years. I have lived in Seattle since 1967. I starting writing fiction after writing a family history.

Book preview

Hell’s Canyon #90

By D. E. Harrison

Copyright 2023 by D. E. Harrison

Smashwords Edition

Smashwords Edition, License Notes

This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to your favorite ebook retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter One, Day 0 The Trip

Chapter Two, Day 1 Items Checked for the Trip

Chapter Three, Day 1, Behind the Scenes

Chapter Four, Day 2, The First Day

Chapter Five, Day 2 Morning

Chapter Six, Day 2 Evening and Sleep

Chapter Seven, Day 2 In the Dark Before Sun Rise

Chapter Seven, Day 2 Just Before Sun Rise

Epilog

About D. E. Harrison

Discover other titles by D. E. Harrison

Introduction

Introducing the Players

Detective Janette Wanda Rage’s badge number is 7304.

She had been a patrolman for several years. She was the first officer to carry a Colt 45 in the entire police force. The police began reviewing their entire small arms procedure after this. It all came about when patrolman Rage riding as a rookie patrolman became involved with a street gang. The situation got out of control and Internal Affairs stuck their nose in after it was all over. You can understand better what and why she carries a Colt 45 as her standard sidearm after reading the ‘13th Street Gang.’

The now rookie homicide Detective Janette Rage has been on the Police force for almost eight years. She is bright, aggressive, and dedicated to the job. She takes a fair amount of ribbing about her last name and the color of her hair. It usually goes on until they see her empty a clip of sixteen rounds at twenty yards into a 4-inch circle. She shoots a competition matched pair of Colt 45s. If that is not enough, she will crack a few ribs, and she will do it again in the gym.

She is a very powerful and attractive young woman with a real bang. She picked the spot she wanted to finish in the final ranking as a patrolman. She is always looking down the road before she jumps. In slow or almost instant decisions, she is way down the road when she makes one. She appears to be a little too quick in judging situations, but she has yet to be shown wrong.

Three years earlier, she had completed the Detective training course at the academy. She finished in second place; the other woman there finished twelfth out of the fifteen total candidates. In such a large metropolitan police force, her new duty assignment could have been one of many. She did not know until Monday after graduation her exact assignment.

Just seven days after graduation and four days on the job, homicide Detective Rage shows up for duty, she finds herself in a fatal multiple shooting investigation. The rookie Detective Rage has been involved in more fatal multiple shootings investigations than most see in a lifetime. That