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Authors: Ed Gorman

BOOK: Doom Weapon

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Chapter 31

T
here are some cases you leave feeling pretty good about yourself. This wasn’t one of them. I don’t suppose I liked Emma much or approved of what she’d done but the sadness I felt was for her. I think she’d probably been a pretty decent woman till Knut twisted her all up inside.

Emma was going to a prison with walls and bars.

But Knut was going to a prison, too. He’d never forgive himself. And that was as it should be.

I was thinking all this as I walked to Liz’s house for supper. I was hoping to get her drunk enough to forget my so-called advanced age.

A fool never gives up hope, does he?

About the Author

ED GORMAN’s
western fiction has won the Spur Award and his crime fiction has won the Shamus and Anthony Awards and has been shortlisted for the Edgar
^®Award. In addition, his writing has appeared in
Redbook
, the
New York Times, Ellery Queen Magazine, Poetry Today,
and other publications.

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Copyright

This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the authors imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

CAVALRY MAN DOOM WEAPON
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ePub edition May 2007 ISBN 9780061740336

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