PAID IN BLOOD
Chapter One
>> WILMINGTON, NORTH CAROLINA
>> THE PRESENT
>> 2053 HOURS
Will Coburn stopped in front of the dead woman lying crumpled
on the threadbare carpet. He stared down at her. Violent death
still gave him pause even after years of seeing it.
He held his flashlight steady and examined the woman's
body. She was in her midtwenties. She'd kept her black hair short
and neat, but blood matted it now. More blood streaked her face
and made her look of pained surprise even more stark. She wore
blue jeans and a dove gray blouse under a nondescript green
Windbreaker.
Someone had cut the woman's throat. Crimson streaked the
front of her blouse and Windbreaker.
Only a few blood streaks stained the carpet she lay on.
Violence and death no longer shocked Will. Since his transfer
to NCIS, the Naval Criminal Investigative Services, three years
ago, he had seen every kind of inhumanity one person could
show another. But he never got used to seeing it. It was enough,
at times, for him to question God, though he knew that God
allowed men free will. When men abused their fr ... read full excerpt from: Paid in Blood ebook
