“Worse than that, he couldn’t get his hands to stop shaking. Almost getting killed could do that to a person, yeah, but he still didn’t like it. Fingering the thick white bandage that was strapped to the side of his neck like a volume of the phone book, he caught himself fidgeting and shoved his hand back into his pocket, where it’d been for a good part of the day. It’d be real nice to take another painkiller or three, but he needed to keep his mind clear, with clear being a relative term. H...e needed to keep his mind as clear as possible for a man who hadn’t slept in several days, had nearly been assassinated a few hours ago and had felt a bullet graze the side of his neck. In the last few hours, he’d been rescued, hospitalized, treated, cleaned, released and grilled by the authorities. Now he was being interviewed by a ring of ten or twenty of his closest friends from his press corps and the local press, all of whom had their arms reaching for him and their digital voice recorders shoved inches from his face.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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