Avenging Angel (2012)
“Wager stood a moment outside the cinder-block sheriff’s offices and watched the boxy vehicle go down the single main street. Two traffic lights shone brightly on the almost-vacant avenue, and over it all the wide sky was dark with evening cumulus clouds and a green twilight. In Denver, Wager didn’t often get a chance to see a sky like that, and this minute of stillness reminded him of when his father had died. When he had learned that neither trees nor earth nor sky nor anything beyond would gi...ve him the slightest answer. This absolute indifference had frightened him when he first discovered it; now it was simply another statement of the isolation that all shared until, still alone, one faced death. But if every man’s death would come when it would, it was Wager’s job to hunt down those who hastened death for others. He wasn’t being paid to stand in the street and gaze at a darkening sky, or to feel this embarrassing return of some forgotten childhood fear.
Nonetheless, he gazed a moment more; but the twilight had drained of meaning and become just a fading color.MoreLess
Nonetheless, he gazed a moment more; but the twilight had drained of meaning and become just a fading color.MoreLess
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