Richard Montanari
Authors: The Echo Man
Published by William Heinemann 2011
2468 10 97531
Copyright © Richard Montanari 2011
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MAN
All seems evil until I
Sleepless would lie down and die.
ECHO
Lie down and die.
- William Butler Yeats
Man and the Echo
Table of Contents
For
every light there is shadow. For every sound, silence.
From
the moment he got the call Detective Kevin Francis Byrne had a premonition this
night would forever change his life, that he was headed to a place marked by a
profound evil, leaving only darkness in its wake.
'You
ready?'
Byrne
glanced at Jimmy. Detective Jimmy Purify, sitting in the passenger seat of the
bashed and battered department-issue Ford, was just a few years older than
Byrne, but something in the man's eyes held deep wisdom, a hard-won experience
that transcended time spent on the job and spoke instead of time earned. They'd
known each other a long time, but this was their first full tour as partners.