The Chase
- Publisher
- Black Opal Books
- Initial publish date
- Nov 2017
- Category
- Suspense
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781626947924
- Publish Date
- Nov 2017
- List Price
- $3.99
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Description
Joseph has finally put the past behind him. Life is everything he has ever envisioned. Justice has been meted out, the ones responsible for the crimes against him and the innocent have been made to pay, and he can finally end his life of violence. Then, in one moment, it is gone. Everything he values has been stolen from him by a criminal looking for a quick payday. So what can Joseph do when, after a life of tragedy, he finally finds happiness, and someone rips it all away from him? How can he go after a man, when he has no clue where the perpetrator is and only a vague idea of what he looks like? How does he find the will to survive when his whole world is gone and the only thing he has left is the need to make the guilty pay?
The chase is on, and Joseph will have to use every resource available if he’s to succeed. But what will he do if he actually catches up with the man he has come to hate more than anything?
About the author
Contributor Notes
Born in the Netherlands, Leonardus G. Rougoor moved to southern Ontario at the age of four and grew up in the Niagara Peninsula. As an adult, he worked in various fields, until settling down in the tool and die industry. Moving to Kelowna in his mid-forties, he started working in the steel fabrication industry. Quality control, safety rep, machining, and training other employees in various areas of the industry led to a fulfilling career.
One week after retiring, Rougoor started writing his first novel. He has a heart for the underdog and dislikes injustice intensely, so this was the driving force in his first mystery/thriller series. Now, having six novels in several genres contracted with a publisher and more on the way, this is turning out to be a wonderful and satisfying new career.
Rougoor is married with two children and several grandchildren. Living on Vancouver Island in the Maple Bay region allows him and his family to enjoy boating on the sheltered portions of the ocean. His philosophy is: If something isn’t going to affect your life much a year from now, why let it overly concern you today?
Excerpt: The Chase (by (author) Leonardus Rougoor)
Preface
I wait and wait as the neighborhood slowly quiets down and everyone has long since gone to bed. Finally, he drives into his driveway and parks. His music is booming inside the closed windows for a minute and stops as he opens the door. People here must just love this inconsiderate bastard.
He gets out of the car and, as he closes the door with a slam, I raise the tranquilizer dart gun and sight down the rifle barrel. As he comes around the back of the car and heads toward the front door, I shoot and the dart hits him right in the ass. He screams and jumps as he reaches behind him trying to grab what has just bit him.
The rifle is gas powered so there is no noise to disturb the neighbors. The only noise is Adam as he tries to make it to the front door.
He gets there, but before he can open the door and get into the house, he collapses in a heap unable to move as he loses consciousness.
I wait for a while to see if anyone around looks to see what the commotion is about. Nobody has taken any notice at all. He must always come home and make a racket the way he did before I shot him, so no one cares about it anymore.
When I’m sure there is no one watching, I cross the street and go to the front door, kneeling beside him. I pick up the dart that he managed to pull out and put it away. Dragging him to the back yard, I tie him up nice and tight with his arms strapped to his sides under a large tree.
Throwing a strong rope over a large branch, I tie it around his chest and under his armpits with the knot at the back. Lifting him up and tightening the rope over the branch suspending him in the air, I tie it off. I take two of those dog anchors that screw into the ground and place them in position. I fasten each leg to one of the anchors, thus holding him facing the street. When he awakes, he will be very uncomfortable but not seriously hurt.
At this time, I undo his belt, lower his pants and underwear then use my knife to cut the pants and underwear completely off. Taking off my backpack and opening it, I take out a zip tie and tighten it around his “banana.” This done I reach in the pack again and pull out a can of black undercoating spray and give his genitals a good coating. This stuff is like tar and will be fairly difficult to get off.
With him tied up and hanging from the tree, he’ll have to call out to the people he has irritated for help. Who knows, maybe someone will call the police for him. With any luck, he’s been drinking a lot and will have to relieve himself soon but with the zip tie so tight he won’t be able to.
This man is a pimp, and he better learn his lesson this time and get out of the business. If he doesn’t, a more drastic measure will be taken—one he won’t survive.
© 2017 by Leonardus G. Rougoor
