The Unattended Passion
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Chapter One
"Why tonight? Last damned night on the job--and this." His jaw set, Detective Brent Dorsey muttered through clenched teeth and compressed lips as he hunkered down behind an overflowing dumpster and shoved a full clip into his Sig Sauer P-230. A rat scurried through the trash at his feet, and a fresh flow of adrenaline surged through his veins, quickening his heartbeat and increasing the flow of perspiration down his back. Every sound was a threat, a reminder that death was on standby in the stinking, humid alley on his final night as a detective on the Monroe City Police Department.
He shoved aside the thought
that he could die on this final night of his police career at the hands of a
young perpetrator hiding in the shadows at the end of the alley. He fought an
urge to get it over, to rise and shout, "Come out, you little bastard.
Let's finish it. Let's end it now!" He did neither. He simply crouched,
perspired and waited, tense and silent.
"Brent, where the hell are you?" Eddie Gomez's growled inquiry crept through the humid stench from behind a stack of produce crates haphazardly tossed against the wall twenty feet to Dorsey's rear. His partner's voice brought the period of silent waiting to an abrupt end.
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About the Book
In his last act as a detective, Brent Dorsey kills a
teen-age predator. It’s an act that
firms up Dorsey’s decision to leave law enforcement. Wanting to be a change agent instead of an enforcer, he resigns
from the Monroe City Police Department to become a teacher. His idealism faces
a new form of reality when confronted by a student psychotic, Ellie Jean
Robbins. His failure to encourage or
respond to Ellie’s offer of love precipitates a cunning act of revenge that
includes murder and makes him the focus of the murder investigation.
About the Author
An Ohio native, Wiland wrote his first novel while a
student at Kent State University.
Hopelessly philosophical and perhaps too racy for its time, that
oft-rejected manuscript rests peacefully in the tattered box in which it was
first submitted. His second effort, The
Pygmy, was published in 1995, following a career in higher education and a
stint as manager of corporate communications for a Tampa, Florida firm. Novels three and four, The Survivor’s
Affair and Ethan’s Son, were published in 2001 and 2002
respectively.