Hunters - Matt Rogers (good novels to read TXT) 📗

building started a pleasant greeting as Post strode across the lobby, but cut it off when he noticed the resident’s bloodshot eyes and clammy face. Post knew it would be concerning. He’d always been a model resident, quiet and polite. Letting his emotions show was the cardinal sin as far as he was concerned, but he no longer gave a shit what was and wasn’t a sin.

He took the elevator up to the twenty-eighth floor, got out, went to his door, and unlocked it.

When he stepped inside, he finally unholstered the Glock at his waist.

He’d been wanting to do it for hours, but he didn’t want to inconvenience whoever they’d replace him with by ruining the carpet in his office and getting it shut down for cleaning. He wasn’t sure why he’d bothered to consider that … then again, he wasn’t sure about anything anymore.

He sat down in the middle of his living room, in front of the view.

It wasn’t as good as his office, but you could still see a sliver of Central Park. Impressive enough, but it wasn’t like he’d ever had visitors to show.

He’d been too busy for that.

Time came to a standstill and he reflected on his options. Without a doubt he’d be fired for incompetence. Usually in his world that meant a bullet in the back of the head, but they’d settle for a demotion, relegating him to menial tasks and duties, never allowing him to work his way back up to his old position.

He couldn’t comprehend the fact they were all dead. All his men, and Sapphire too. He’d spent the last ten years of his life honing them into suitable replacements for top-tier operatives. His methods were unique, and it turned out they were special. Those he took under his wing became prescient hunters, nightmares for America’s enemies, and his hunter force had been gearing up to replace Black Force before that defunct division, headed by King and Slater, fizzled out into nonexistence.

So the hunters had risen to the top.

Post had become wealthy beyond his wildest dreams, which was never the point, but it was a nice silver lining.

And now…

It was funny… all that study of philosophy, all that practice taming his emotions … none of it could have ever prepared him for this. The stoics preached the importance of “hard winter training,” to steel yourself for when the turbulent times come.

And make no mistake, Post remembered reading, they will come.

So here they were, and his life was ruined, and King and Slater were unaware of his very existence.

His hunters became the hunted, and then King and Slater were gone, vanished, like ghosts in the wind.

Post realised they didn’t need to know about him. They’d destroyed him all the same.

By making his mind hunt itself.

He put the gun to his head.

In his final moments, a thought came to him.

Maybe you made the wrong decisions. Maybe you weren’t a good man.

This is your own fault.

He didn’t want to spend another instant considering that, so he didn’t. He forced the thought out and turned his attention to the only positive result he could think of.

When my body is found, it will be the nail in the coffin. My colleagues will think King and Slater got to me, made it look like a suicide. They’ll stop hunting them. They’ll leave them alone, let them fade away. Not worth the trouble…

Well, Post thought, at least I did one good thing for my country.

It would put an indefinite moratorium on Jason King and Will Slater.

It would stop others from making the foolish mistakes he’d made.

He ended all his pain with a quick pull of the trigger.

KING AND SLATER WILL RETURN…

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Books by Matt Rogers

THE JASON KING SERIES

Isolated (Book 1)

Imprisoned (Book 2)

Reloaded (Book 3)

Betrayed (Book 4)

Corrupted (Book 5)

Hunted (Book 6)

THE JASON KING FILES

Cartel (Book 1)

Warrior (Book 2)

Savages (Book 3)

THE WILL SLATER SERIES

Wolf (Book 1)

Lion (Book 2)

Bear (Book 3)

Lynx (Book 4)

Bull (Book 5)

Hawk (Book 6)

THE KING & SLATER SERIES

Weapons (Book 1)

Contracts (Book 2)

Ciphers (Book 3)

Outlaws (Book 4)

Ghosts (Book 5)

Sharks (Book 6)

Messiahs (Book 7)

Hunters (Book 8)

LYNX SHORTS

Blood Money (Book 1)

BLACK FORCE SHORTS

The Victor (Book 1)

The Chimera (Book 2)

The Tribe (Book 3)

The Hidden (Book 4)

The Coast (Book 5)

The Storm (Book 6)

The Wicked (Book 7)

The King (Book 8)

The Joker (Book 9)

The Ruins (Book 10)

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Matt Rogers grew up in Melbourne, Australia as a voracious reader, relentlessly devouring thrillers and mysteries in his spare time. Now, he writes full-time. His novels are action-packed and fast-paced. Dive into the Jason King Series to get started with his collection.

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