Lion: A Will Slater Thriller (Will Slater Series Book 2)
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‘People go back on their promises.’
‘Not when you’re promising that man.’
‘He’s different.’
‘He sure is.’
‘Where’s he going?’
‘I don’t know.’
‘Will he be okay? He seemed hurt.’
Despite everything, Williams smirked. ‘You haven’t know Will Slater long enough. That’s nothing to him. He’ll be up and about in no time. You don’t want to be around him when that happens. Now, come on. Let’s get you out of here. We have a flight to catch.’
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Two weeks later…
Zürich
Switzerland
On a freezing morning in the Greater Zürich Area, a man in an expensive black overcoat stepped out from underneath a broad concrete archway, his boots making fine imprints on the light dusting of snow coating the sidewalks. Despite a slight limp in his right leg, any onlooker would consider him in phenomenal shape, with a powerful musculature clearly visible underneath his designer clothing.
He paused for a moment in the middle of the sidewalk, inhaling a massive gulp of the crisp morning air. He checked in either direction for any nosy civilians before sliding a gloved hand into the pocket of his overcoat and withdrawing a slim grey smartphone. He navigated to a banking application, refreshed the page, and couldn’t resist flashing a grin complete with two rows of gleaming white teeth.
For Will Slater, it was a good day.
The opportunity had presented itself, and he’d seized it. It hadn’t taken much critical thinking to recognise that everyone involved in Peter Forrest’s dirty profits had swiftly departed from the land of the living a couple of weeks earlier. The triad had been thrust into tatters, and the culprits of the brazen theft attempt had been left with bullets in their heads in the sub-level of a casino complex. Forrest himself had died a gruesome death — a fact that had been confirmed to Slater on the evening news some time ago.
Mountain Lion had burst at the seams as a horrific list of illegal operations had been uncovered by a Macau task force. Hundreds of arrests had been made. Affirmative action had been taken without hesitation, and the Macau casino industry had gone into panic mode.
But none of that really mattered to Slater. He’d pulled a certain child out of the depths of hell, and that gave him all the satisfaction he was looking for.
He glanced one final time at his accounts, now crammed with money that had been resting in limbo for weeks.
No-one would miss it.
And Slater would put it to better use than the authorities. He still had a lot of living to do, and a lot of justice to dish out.
Sometimes it paid to habitually memorise crucial information.
Like account numbers, and confirmation codes, and triad bank details.
Four-hundred and thirty-five million dollars richer, he strode off down the street, wondering where the next chaotic sequence of events would occur.
He couldn’t wait.
WILL SLATER WILL RETURN.
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