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    Backslide

    By Clabe Polk

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    Detective Mike Eiser is a conscientious small town cop. He takes he takes his friends and neighbors to heart. So when Mike’s partner and mentor, Charlie Bozeman is killed by a sniper right in front of Mike's eyes, in a town that hasn’t had a murder in years, Mike needs to find the killer fast. The evidence points to a trained military or law enforcement sniper. Eiser's boss, Sheriff Glenn Glassman is a trained sniper - could he be the killer? Or is there a corrupt conspiracy designed to make Mike Eiser a victim too?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherClabe Polk
    Release dateMar 6, 2015
    ISBN9781311024992
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    Clabe Polk

    CLABE POLK is into a second career as a writer of fiction. So far, he has written four novels, three novellas, several short stories, and has a couple of other novels in process. He is a lifelong reader with a great variety of life experience.With a background in biology and natural sciences, Mr. Polk has more than thirty-seven years in professional environmental protection program management and law enforcement.He lives in Powder Springs, Georgia with his wife, two daughters, and the family’s Cockapoo named Annie.

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      Book preview

      Backslide - Clabe Polk

      Backslide

      The Detective Mike Eiser Series, Book 1

      By

      Clabe R. Polk

      Published by Clabe R. Polk, Powder Springs, GA

      USA

      Backslide is a work of fiction. All events, characters, organizations, locations and activities are products of the author’s imagination and any resemblance to actual events, organizations, locations, activities or persons either living or dead are coincidental.

      This version of Backslide is distributed through Amazon.

      Copyright © 2014 by Clabe R. Polk. All rights reserved. Except as permitted by the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976 (Title 17, United States Code, as amended), no part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or information retrieval system without the written permission of the author.

      This ebook is licensed to you for your personal enjoyment. It may not be sold or transferred. If you wish to share this work, please respect the hard work of the author by purchasing a copy for each person with whom you wish to share it.

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      A wet thud.

      Mike Eiser saw Charlie Bozeman’s head dissolve into a spray of blood and brains. A tenth of a second later, Eiser’s brain registered the sound of the shot; two-tenths of a second later, Eiser’s nose was flat on the bottom of the gully he was in belly crawling frantically for a culvert fifty feet in front of him.

      Good news; no more shots, he had not been seen. Bad news; they would quickly come to check out Charlie’s body.

      The culvert was just large enough for Eiser to sit up and turn around. Rattlesnakes, moccasins, copperheads all loved to hang out in culverts. He almost filled his shorts at the idea he might have deadly company. No snakes; just spiders. Big colorful spiders had spun webs over the entrance. A few black widows just inside retreated and let him in; come into my parlor, said the spider to the fly. He could sit with his back to one wall and watch both ways – just a darker lump to anyone looking in. A sunlight-filled orb to the left; a sunlight-filled orb to the right; Mike in the middle. The broken spider webs screamed out his location to anyone who cared to look. Right then, no one was looking.

      Quietly, he drew a Glock 17 from a flapjack holster, then, a Glock 26 from an ankle

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