Simple Genius
Chapter One
THERE ARE FOUR ACKNOWLEDGED WAYS of meeting your maker: You can die
by natural causes including illness; you can die by accident; you
can die by another's hand; and you can die by your own hand.
However, if you live in Washington, D.C., there is a fifth way of
kicking the bucket: the political death. It can spring from many
sources: frolicking in a public fountain with an exotic dancer who
is not your wife; stuffing bags of money in your pants when the
payer unfortunately happens to be the FBI; or covering up a bungled
burglary when you call 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue home.
Michelle Maxwell was currently stalking the pavement in the nation's
capital, but because she wasn't a politician, that fifth choice of
mortal exit was not available to her. In fact, the lady was focused
only on getting so wasted she'd wake up the next morning with a
chunk of her memory gone. There was much she wanted to forget; much
that she had to forget.
Michelle crossed the street, pushed open the bullet-pocked door of
the bar and stepped inside. The smoke hit her first, some of it
actually from cigarettes. The ot ... read full excerpt from: Simple Genius ebook
