50Seven Seconds

Cover by Maksym Zvonovskyi.
Prequel to Dual: A Love Story ASIN: B00S7EKGKA
Contains adult language, recommended for mature readers.

Critically acclaimed DC and Marvel Comics writer Christopher James Priest (Black Panther, Green Lantern: Sleepers, Quantum & Woody) has authored this quirky, cynical, crime drama. 50Seven Seconds is a short story prequel to the novel Dual: A Love Story. Gerry Martinez, a New York City police detective assigned to the Queens County Prosecutor’s Office, runs afoul of his District Attorney bosses and is forced to serve penance by going undercover as a Columbian arms dealer pedaling automatic weapons to a terrorist cell. Inspired by the late Elmore Leonard’s eclectic humanism; 50Seven Seconds presents a kind of gathering of imbeciles from which description the antihero himself is not excluded as the shady arms deal goes sideways and all hell breaks loose deep beneath the streets of New York.

Themes: hardboiled police/crime drama. 8400 words.