Excerpt from The Bully of Order by Brian Hart, plus links to reviews, author biography & more

The sound was a crack like a gunshot but too open-sounding to be a rifle or even a shotgun, and when we turned from each other I saw the spray of red and green fireworks splash against the wet sky.

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