“That’s BS. I’m the one who got burned. I’m the victim here.”
Sha Nay Nay sighed. “It’s actually a good thing we got pinched. If we went back to Del Ray empty handed, we’d be dead. At least now we got a good excuse. We do a little easy time, come out heroes. I been inside. It ain’t too bad.”
“You got arrested for playin’ your music too loud in public,” Hackqueem said. “You were in jail for ten minutes before your moms bailed your cryin’ ass out.”
“I seen things,” Sha Nay Nay said, his gaze far away. “Terrible things.”
Bön Dawg shook his head “Wisconsin prison can’t be that hardcore. The crackers up here, they don’t shoot people, they season ’em. Right Jet Row?”
Jet Row remembered what that seasoning shit felt like. It was bad. Not as bad as burning. But rough just the same.
“What you think, Jet Row?” Sha Nay Nay said. “You scared of Wisconsin prisons?”
“Naw. It’s Wisconsin, man. It ain’t Stateville. Ain’t no really bad dudes in Wisconsin.”
“You gentlemen know about Jeffery Dahmer?” It was Officer Jones, the good-looking cop bitch who gave them the shitty donuts.
“Who’s that?” Jet Row asked.
“Dahmer killed seventeen young men. He injected them in their brains with boiling water to make them sex slaves. When they died, he cooked them and ate them.”
“For real?” Hackqueem asked.
She nodded. “For real.”
“But he was a white dude, right?” asked Sha Nay Nay. “Didn’t pay people of color no mind.”
“Jeffrey Dahmer was an equal opportunity serial killer. He murdered white boys, black boys, and Hispanic boys,” Officer Jones said, looking at each kid in turn. “You fellas think Wisconsin jail time is gonna be like a vacation in the Dells, think again.”
The gang all exchanged alarmed looks.
“What the hell?” Jet Row moaned. “It’s like we’re being punished for doin’ bad things!”
And so it began,
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Joe Konrath and Ann Voss Peterson have each sold millions of books. Together, they’ve written the Codename: Chandler thriller series, as well as laugh-out-loud erotica under the pen name Melinda DuChamp. Visit Ann at www.AnnVossPeterson.com, and visit Joe at www.JAKonrath.com.
BOOKS BY ANN VOSS PETERSON
Codename: Chandler Series
HIT
EXPOSED
NAUGHTY
FIX (with F. Paul Wilson and J.A. Konrath)
RESCUE
FLEE
SPREE
THREE
Val Ryker Series
PUSHED TOO FAR
BURNED TOO HOT
DEAD TOO SOON
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WATCHED TOO LONG
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