Seattle On Ice

Book 1: Brick Ransom

by Mike Attebery

Genres: Action & Adventure; Crime & Mystery; Thrillers; Crime Fiction

Synopsis

Seattle wasn't built for snow, and a winter storm on the eve of a blockbuster criminal trial has brought the city to a standstill. Now, fresh out of the academy, Brick Ransom must protect three key witnesses - a bookkeeper, a stripper, and a deadly assassin - all of whom are set to testify against Seattle crime boss Frank Mason the next morning. When a gunman ambushes the first witness, and Brick's partner is killed in the crossfire, it's revealed that moles within the police force are leaking the whereabouts of each witness, in a last-ditch effort to keep the criminal kingpin from ever standing trial.

As Brick faces killers, crooked cops, and an ever-worsening storm, he doesn't know who he can trust, or when his luck will run out...

The first of the Brick Ransom Thrillers, Seattle On Ice draws readers into a thrilling adventure, filled with all the action, humor, and suspense that fans of Mike Attebery's Four Corners Thrillers have come to expect.

Release date: November 5, 2011

Publisher: Cryptic Bindings

Print pages: 223

Sample

 

Chapter 1

The snow was blinding as they slid through the ice-glazed intersection, completely out of control. Their SUV launched into the air at the summit of the next street, sailed aloft for a good ten feet, and slammed down on the surface of the roadway, the undercarriage tearing into the concrete as the vehicle resumed its whirling descent.

So far, they’d managed to stay upright and in the middle of the street, but after crossing the next avenue at a terrifying 60 degree angle, the front of their vehicle tore into a row of parked cars, sending shards of glass and a volley of sparks into the frozen winter air. The sounds of grinding metal and shattering glass were deafening. And yet, their own vehicle seemed all but unscathed as it picked up speed for the final stretch, moving faster and faster toward the two-way traffic of First Avenue, until they were square in the middle of the intersection, with Brick Ransom’s back turned partially away from the oncoming southbound traffic.

Lights filled the cab and a horn blared behind them as Brick Ransom spun around to look over his shoulder, just as a Seattle DOT snowplow smashed into the front driver’s side fender. The SUV’s engine blew apart from the impact. The plow’s blade ripped through the vehicle’s metal skin as steam, metal, and wreckage exploded around them in a cloud of debris.

And still the plow drove forward, propelling them through the intersection and straight into the corner of a large Pioneer Square office building, where the SUV buckled against the fortress-like stone structure. The plow blade ground further and further into the twisted metal wreckage, before finally gasping to a halt.

Then everything went quiet, and the world blinked to black.