The Last Pursuit
By RICK MOFINA
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John Garrett is a cop aching to redeem himself for the mistake he made that destroyed two innocent lives and his own. He works alone to pursue the murderer he was escorting to trial, after their plane crashes in the unforgiving Rocky Mountains of the Pacific Northwest. This 5,800-word story by Rick Mofina is one of three gripping tales in his crime anthology, THREE TO THE HEART.
Rick Mofina is a former crime reporter and the award-winning author of several notable thrillers.
The International Thriller Writers, The Private Eye Writers of America and The Crime Writers of Canada have listed Rick Mofina's titles as being among the best in the world.
His books have been published in some 21 countries and have been praised by James Patterson, Dean Koontz, Michael Connelly, Lee Child, Tess Gerritsen, Jeffery Deaver, Sandra Brown, James Rollins, Brad Thor, Nick Stone, David Morrell, Allison Brennan, Heather Graham, Linwood Barclay, Peter Robinson, Håkan Nesser and Kay Hooper. For more information please visit www.rickmofina dot com .
RICK MOFINA
Rick Mofina is a former crime reporter and the award-winning author of several acclaimed thrillers. He's interviewed murderers face-to-face on death row; patrolled with the LAPD and the RCMP. His true crime articles have appeared in The New York Times, Marie Claire, Reader’s Digest and Penthouse. He's reported from the U.S., Canada, the Caribbean, Africa, Qatar and Kuwait's border with Iraq. For more information please visit www.rickmofina.com
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The Last Pursuit - RICK MOFINA
THE LAST PURSUIT
A Short Story
RICK MOFINA
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Copyright © 2010 & 2012 by Rick Mofina
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the creation of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons living or dead, business establishments, events or locales is entirely coincidental.
The Last Pursuit
Rick Mofina
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Copyright © 2012 Rick Mofina
Copyright © 2010 Rick Mofina
ISBN 978-1-927114-33-9
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INTRODUCTION
The story, The Last Pursuit,
was selected by the Crime Writers' Association of the United Kingdom to appear in its anthology, Original Sins.
It is included in my e-anthology, Three to the Heart, my second small collection of short stories which is the follow up to my first anthology, Dangerous Women and Desperate Men.
I regard the stories collected in Three to the Heart to be among the best of my short crime fiction.
Rick Mofina
Rmofina @ gmail dot com
THE LAST PURSUIT
by Rick Mofina
clinked in the Maximum Security Unit of Saskatchewan Penitentiary as eight men, four of them prison staff, approached the last cell at the end of the corridor, the one segregated from the rest of the population.
Inside on his cot, inmate Robert Lazarus Yacine, turned his attention from his worn paperback copy of Nietzsche’s, Beyond Good and Evil to consider the traces of cologne and cheap motel shampoo that had arrived outside his door.
Time to go,
Powers, the deputy warden, said.
Yacine stood and slid his hands through the portal of his cell door. Cold steel tightened around his wrists and snapped.
"Step back,