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starring
Roy Petersen
in
“I never thought of her as my last chance. The reality is, she probably was.”
choices:
a
joshua davis
story
“If you don’t get him back to Lima, he’ll die...”
"Did he already harbor suspicions?"
corruption:
"He paid the doctor $100 to 'overlook' the still bloody sutures from the surgery."
the translator
betrayal:
the millionaire
"Two got out. One leveled a .38 revolver and shot Perez, killing him instantly. The other pushed through the gate.
Fuentes had a 12-guage inside the guard house, but a 9mm round put him down before he could get off a shot."
death:
She's been let down by men before, but she never lost hope of finding someone like him.
A man whose greatest asset is his willingness to get into a gunfight…
in a story of
“A rational person would give up. Not Roy."
"...and had the world-weary air of a man who’s seen a lot of violence. He looked like an American cowboy: battle-scarred, solitary, and mysterious."
"She didn’t know that Roy had arrived in Peru trailing a long history of failures. What she saw was a handsome foreigner who often wore a wide-brimmed brown fedora, carried a sidearm..."
“He was extremely passionate, for better and for worse.”
Has led to a life of violence that's cost him his eye, his dreams, and his family.
“There were lots of hugs and kisses and he would tell us he loved us… but then he’d snap about the smallest thing…
My mom said he just wasn’t right in the head since he came back from the war.”
Presents:
No Nature - Falafel Western
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