by Sean Black
Ty had been in contact with RJ’s attorney and offered to be a character witness, should it be required. At heart, RJ was a good man. Ty recognized that. He also knew that circumstance could dictate someone’s actions . . . actions they might come to regret.
That was why justice was often depicted as a woman holding a scale. With the bad, there was good. With the dark, there was light.
“Hey,” Cressida said. “You want to see something?”
“Sure.”
She put the books to one side and patted the bed. Ty managed to park himself next to her. She clicked on a file on her laptop and an image appeared, a color picture of a young African-American woman. She was in her early twenties, with long, straightened feather-cut hair and cat’s-eye-framed tortoiseshell glasses. She was smiling, full of hope.
“This was Carole.”
“Your great-aunt?”
“It was taken a few months before . . .”
It was only in that moment that Ty realized he had never before seen a picture of Carole Chabon. He studied it, taking his time. He thought of Adelson Shaw, and a feeling built inside him that he had to tamp down.
Some things were best left to the law, and he knew the FBI had spoken with RJ about what he believed Adelson Shaw had done when he’d met the young Carole Chabon, and set the whole thing spinning wildly out of control.
Ty looked from the picture to Cressida. He could see the resemblance in her features. “You done good,” he said to her.
She gave a somber nod.
“No, I mean it,” he said. “She deserved justice, and you’ve helped deliver it.”
She reached out and took his hand, folding her fingers around his. He left it there for a moment. Then he got up. “I’ll be around for a few more days before I fly back to LA. If you need anything just holler.”
“Thanks, Tyrone.”
“Sure thing,” he said, walking to the door.
When he looked back to her, she was hunched over her laptop, getting ready to write her and Carole’s story. He stepped out into the corridor and headed for the elevator.
About the Author
To research his books, Sean Black has trained as a bodyguard in the UK and Eastern Europe, spent time inside America's most dangerous Supermax prison, Pelican Bay in California, undergone desert survival training in Arizona, and ventured into the tunnels under Las Vegas.
A graduate of Oxford University, England and Columbia University in New York, Sean lives in Dublin, Ireland.
His Ryan Lock and Byron Tibor thrillers have been translated into Dutch, French, German, Italian, Portugese, Russian, Spanish, and Turkish.
Read the new Ryan Lock novel
The winner of the 2018 International Thriller Writers Award for Second Chance returns with his latest explosive thriller featuring ex-military bodyguard Ryan Lock and his business partner, retired US Marine, Ty Johnson.
When the daughter of a Chinese billionaire is kidnapped from her mansion in Arcadia, California, Ryan and Ty find themselves caught in the middle of a vicious standoff.
Emily Yan is a Chinese 'parachute kid', one of thousands of children sent to study in America by their ultra-wealthy parents. Living in a multi-million dollar mansion in Arcadia, California with her hard-partying cousin Charlie, it's not long before their ostentatious displays of wealth attract the wrong sort of attention in the form of some MS-13 gang members.
But someone else has been looking for Emily, a shadowy figure from back home known only as The Red Tiger.
Two very different worlds collide in this explosive new thriller from Sean Black as Ryan Lock and his business partner, wise-cracking US Marine Ty Johnson, set out to save Emily from a violent tug of war between two deadly forces; the brutal members of America's most dangerous gang, and an equally determined Chinese enforcer called the Red Tiger.
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Also by Sean Black
Lockdown (US/Canada)
Lockdown (UK/ Commonwealth)
Deadlock (US/Canada)
Deadlock (UK/Commonwealth)
Lock & Load (Short)
Gridlock (US/Canada)
Gridlock (UK/Commonwealth)
The Devil’s Bounty (US/Canada)
The Devil’s Bounty (UK/Commonwealth)
The Innocent
Fire Point
Budapest/48 (Short)
The Edge of Alone
Second Chance
The Deep Lonely (Short)
The Red Tiger
Ryan Lock Thrillers: Lockdown; Deadlock; Gridlock (Ryan Lock Series Boxset Book 1) - (US & Canada only)
3 Ryan Lock Thrillers: The Innocent; Fire Point; Second Chance
The Byron Tibor Series
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Blood Country
Winter’s Rage
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