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And charged. He threw up his forearms like an offensive lineman blocking a defensive back, but Pike slipped to the
side, pushed the man’s elbow down and away, caught his head, and rolled him into the floor. Third of a second once
contact was made, and Pike was on his feet, watching the muscular man rush toward him in slow motion as the three
other men, even more slowly, jumped to their feet. The muscular man reached under his shirt even as he pushed past
the tables. Pike did not try to stop the gun; he rolled his hand under the man’s wrist, drove the man’s arm over and
back, and pulled him backward and down. Pike had the gun before the man slammed into the floor, and hit him on the
forehead with it two hard times.
He put out a nice stiff left, which he planned to follow with a right cross. I slipped to the left, which threw him off
enough so that I could step inside the right cross and get a handful of his hair. I pulled his head forward and broke his
nose with my head. Still holding his hair in one hand, I got my other hand into his crotch and put my shoulder into him
and lifted him off the ground and slammed him down on the hood of the truck. He grunted, and went limp. When I
stood back, he slowly slid off the hood and lay in the street with his mouth open
Wells tackled him, a linebacker drilling a quarterback from the blindside, a clean shoulder-to-shoulder hit that arched
Marley’s spine. The gun clattered from his hand and skittered into the drainage ditch. Wells kept coming, driving his
legs, finishing the hit.
He smashed an elbow into the side of Marley’s skull, the soft spot high on the temple.
Slapped his right palm down on the man’s face, shattering his nose.
Black Rugby shirt swung his chain wildly now, his eyes dropping to check on his friend and then darting back up, with
equal measures of fury and terror, to the bearded man in front of him.
Dewey yanked back with his right forearm, snapping the man‘s neck like a tree branch.
He expected it, anticipated it, and in the moments after landing he let his body relax.
His partner was on his hands and knees how, scrambling toward the bed. I caught him and dragged him to his feet and
turned my hip as he tried to knee me in the groin. I banged his nose with my forehead and pushed him away and hit him
left cross straight right and he fell over on the bed
Took another step forward, crowding him
I slapped him with my open left hand full across the face. It rocked him and he took a step back and then steadied
himself, blinking his eyes and staring at me. His headache must have been a starburst.
I hit him a left hand in the V under his ribs where the sternum ends. It paralyzed his diaphragm and he gasped and
doubled over and then pitched forward onto the sidewalk.
I grabbed his wrist with my left hand and held his gun hand against his chest, the gun caught under the jacket and I hit
him twice more with my right, square in the nose. He sagged and I shoved him away,
Philosophy/quotes
Muscle over mind
He had a knife. I moved away from him. He was stronger than Ichabod and had a knife. He started toward me. I had my
gun in an ankle holster but I didn’t want to start shooting in the middle of the street if I didn’t have to. I took another
step back and slid my belt out of my pant loops. I looped it around my left hand so that the buckle end swung loose
Torture
Multiple small incisions on the thighs, all just splitting the skin. He’d then applied the salt
Guns
Bullets tore through the door, sending splinters flying.
Windows shattered, spewing glass shards everywhere
Bullets gouging the walls
Spray of bullets tore through the line of front windows, striking a side wall, shattering a beautiful gilded mirror
The man had seen Jack’s shadow, seen whisper of movement and dove to the ground. Jack’s bullet went tinto a tree and
spewed up a whirlwind of leaves
Ignoring the pain in his thigh, the blood seeping from the cut in his left arm and tried to move as quickly and quietyly
as possible
How do you win a gun fight without a gun?