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Tom Crowley Books
Category:
Action/Thriller
Publisher: Down & Out Books
ISBN-10: 1937495736
Type: Fiction
Pages: 222
Copyright: august 2014
ISBN-13: 9781937495736
Price: $6.99 (eBook)
Attempting to assist his mentor and muay Thai coach Somchai to solve the murder of a young street boy, Matt finds him self confronting foreign terrorists.
Matt Chance is on the run.
Murder, sexual exploitation, designer drugs, international terrorism and an off the rails CIA station chief are all part of the mix.
When Matt Chance is asked to look into what at first appears to be a simple but brutal crime, he has no idea of the combination of forces which will threaten his life as well as the lives of those closest to him and send him on the run.
A teenaged street boy is found viciously murdered in the most unlikely of places, his nude body laid out on the bare concrete floor of the slaughterhouse where they kill the pigs. The boy was a student at the muay thai school run by Coach Somchai, who is also Matt’s mentor. Afraid the cops may find the killing easy to dismiss as just another meth crazed killing, Coach Somchai calls on Matt to look into the boy’s death.
Matt finds the boy was drawn into a sex service ring whose clients include international terrorists and those who control them. Most troubling of all, the trail leads Matt to a covert CIA operation and one of the most notorious of CIA operatives, a man Matt has clashed with before in Iraq. The operative’s power in Thailand means Matt’s safety is in question. He must run for his life searching outside of Thailand for allies to help counterbalance the threat and solve the murder.
Excerpt
Matt, almost on top of him, spoke deliberately: “Are you Choi?”
Choi stood up straighter now, confident of his position on his turf, looking with scorn at Matt’s approach. “Yes, I am, so what?”
Matt didn’t pause as he closed the last half step, with his left foot closest to the target, he said, “So this, you pig.” No Muay Thai moves, no orchestration, Matt just buried his right fist deeply into Choi’s soft stomach. Choi doubled over and might have fallen at Matt’s feet but Matt caught Choi by his arm and held him halfway up. Matt moved his feet out of the way thinking Choi might vomit on them, but he didn’t. Choi was just dry retching for a few seconds, gasping for air. The boys had stumbled back out of the way, their eyes wide with shock. This was Choi’s corner; he was the local Pu Yai, the big man here. No one challenged him in any way, for this to happen was unbelievable.
Matt now held Choi up, one hand gripping his upper arm the other grasping his belt, holding him so they were eye level, faces only six inches apart. “From now on no kids, you understand me? You want to deal with drugs and sex you deal with adults. No kids, no one at the games shop here, you understand?”
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