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    Tight Spots
    Tight Spots
    Tight Spots
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    Tight Spots

    By Daniel R. Robichaud

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    KINETIC FORCE is publicly acknowledged as the best of the best America has to offer, taking candidates from all branches of the Armed Forces as well as other disciplines, but the work it performs is classified and therefore not public record. In fact, it performs specialized operations for the United States government, guaranteeing freedom and hope in the terrifying twenty first century. Once upon a time before politics got muddled, the US was considered the world's peace keeper and policeman. Kinetic Force upholds that noble heritage. Their keystone mission is to identify and defeat threats against these United States whether domestic or global. At present, their primary focus is the villainous organization SKORPION, a ruthless terrorist organization with operations across the globe.

    Rikiki Hama operates under the code name Mongoose, a close quarters combat and infiltration specialist. While on leave, he heads into New York City to his favorite curiosity shop in the underground shopping mall beneath World Marketplace skyscraper. He expects fun discoveries in the bins. What he gets is a life and death struggle against a Skorpion saboteur.

    The saboteur code named Light 'Em Up likes nothing more than to evoke terror through high grade demolitions. And he is the first to assure his brothers and sisters: business is booming. Working under direct orders from Skorpion high command, he had armed enough explosives to bring the World Marketplace building down. However, a quirk of fate will trap him in the building along with the civilian collateral as well as a member of the hated Kinetic Force.

    These two men must face off against one another beneath a collapsing skyscraper while finding an exit route. Will they claw their way free before they are buried forever in Ground Zero of the greatest terrorist threat to strike American soil? Any way you look at it, these men are in TIGHT SPOTS.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTwice Told Tales II
    Release dateAug 12, 2018
    ISBN9780463581124
    Tight Spots
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    Daniel R. Robichaud

    Daniel R. Robichaud has lived in southeastern Michigan, central Massachusetts and southern Texas. He is a Rhysling Award nominated poet and the author of over one hundred stories, articles and poems, which have appeared in such markets as Shroud Magazine, Rogue Worlds, Goblin Fruit, Rage of the Behemoth, Green Prints, and WritersWeekly. Daniel holds degrees in both Physics and English, and his career path has reflected these passions. In addition to his numerous writing opportunities, he has been an Igor For Hire (aka a freelance research engineer), a substitute teacher, an automation engineer, and a neurophysiology lab manager. Daniel enjoys entertaining people with his words and stories. If you enjoy a good read, why not try one of his works? You might just love them.

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      Tight Spots - Daniel R. Robichaud

      Tight Spots

      A Kinetic Force Story

      By: Daniel R. Robichaud

      We Fight at Home and Abroad to Defend These United States . . .

      The unit known as KINETIC FORCE is publically acknowledged as the best of the best America has to offer, taking candidates from all branches of the Armed Forces as well as other disciplines, but the work it performs is classified and therefore not yet public record.

      In fact, Kinetic Force performs specialized operations for the United States government, guaranteeing freedom and hope for all members of the United Nations in these terrifying days of the twentyfirst century. Once upon a time, before politics got muddled, the US was considered the world's peace keeper and policeman. Kinetic Force upholds that noble heritage. Their keystone mission is to identify and neutralize threats against these United States and her allies.

      At present, Kinetic Force is primary focused on the villainous SKORPION, a ruthless terrorist organization with operations across the globe and dreams of conquest.

      One

      Rikiki Hama scanned the vintage vinyl bin with mission critical focus. The one arrangement quality to the records was that they were all front facing and right side up. Still, this was enough to let the small man's eyes take in the necessary information to tell his fingers to flip on. In the plastic crate's tight confines, the albums' lower edges played the role of hinges, which his fingers continued to throw shut. Olivia Newton John's Physical? Skip. Poison's Look What the Cat Dragged In? Nope. Heart's Bad Animals? Pass. Boston's self-titled debut? Nnnnext! He moved forward at a steady pace, fingers caressing naked cardboard or oversized polyethylene protective sleeves with library stickers still prominent. Each turn put another bullet in the hope of finding something worthwhile, each rejection one more fraction of an inch closer to the end of the stacks. Then, he spotted a prize that stopped his fingers cold. A copy of Anthrax's Spreading the Disease had been tucked behind Tears for Fears' Songs from the Big House, and it was still jacketed in original shrink wrap. Rikiki dragged this needle out of the chest of iron shavings and studied the front piece. It was pure gold, art from the days when album covers mattered. This one was a colorful piece featuring a long-haired rock teen prostrate in the center, struggling against a pair of sinister Nazis wearing shadows and gas masks. The kid's combat boot treads were front and center, making the viewer complicit in the kid's struggles. The victim's hands curled helpless. His face wore a mélange of real fright and pain. This was a worthy enough find to make the trip downtown and this ramble down forgotten and forgettable music memory lane worthwhile. He considered the picture while a grin spread his mouth to goofy widths and muttered, Now, I can die a happy man, little realizing he was about to be taken up on that offer.

      The Underground Paradise was one of Manhattan's kitschier local spots. A shopping mall that tried to replicate the nerd districts found in Tokyo but succeeded only in attracting the sorts of folks who openly scoffed at the Yankees and sat around sandwich shops or Seattle-based caffeinated beverage purveyors, nursing the cheapest menu item while gobbling up free wifi to write online screeds about the latest pop-find de jour who had been so much cooler when they could not make an actual living. It had been erected in the subways under the five hundred block, beneath the north west corner of the fifty story tall World Marketplace

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