Cooked Goose (2014)
“Both Titus Dunn and Harvey Bloss lay on the floor of the motel room. Bloss’s hand was still cuffed to the chair. Both shot. Neither one breathing. Neither had a pulse.
Just a quick examination told Savannah and Dirk that Titus Dunn was beyond resuscitation. They had fired one bullet each. Both had struck him in the region of the heart. His death had been almost instantaneous.
Bloss was a different story. Titus’s aim had been low, nicking him on the inside of his thigh. While it was a bit more t...han the proverbial flesh wound, the injury shouldn’t have been fatal.
Quickly, they ripped his shirt open, yanked down his trousers, and looked for another wound. But there was none.
“What’s wrong with him?” Dirk asked, shaking his captain by the shoulders. “Why doesn’t he have a pulse for cryin’ out loud?”
“I guess he had a heart attack or maybe it just scared him to death,” Savannah said as she dialed 911 and requested an ambulance.
Dirk knelt over his inert captain, listening for respiration, but, for all practical purposes, Bloss was as dead as his counterpart.MoreLess
Just a quick examination told Savannah and Dirk that Titus Dunn was beyond resuscitation. They had fired one bullet each. Both had struck him in the region of the heart. His death had been almost instantaneous.
Bloss was a different story. Titus’s aim had been low, nicking him on the inside of his thigh. While it was a bit more t...han the proverbial flesh wound, the injury shouldn’t have been fatal.
Quickly, they ripped his shirt open, yanked down his trousers, and looked for another wound. But there was none.
“What’s wrong with him?” Dirk asked, shaking his captain by the shoulders. “Why doesn’t he have a pulse for cryin’ out loud?”
“I guess he had a heart attack or maybe it just scared him to death,” Savannah said as she dialed 911 and requested an ambulance.
Dirk knelt over his inert captain, listening for respiration, but, for all practical purposes, Bloss was as dead as his counterpart.MoreLess
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