COVER
OF DARKNESS
By
Gregory Delaurentis
BLURB:
A
high profile murder of a Wall Street executive in Westchester pits three people
against the criminal underbelly of Manhattan nightlife. The key players are two
ex-cops turned private investigators—Kevin Whitehouse, whose sharpest tool is
his keen analytical mind, and David Allerton, a former Special Forces
operative—and Margaret Alexander, Kevin’s lover. In their search for a killer,
they are forced to travel to the edge of sanity and morality, while stumbling
onto their own confusing secrets as well. The Cover of Darkness is a
gritty noir saga that untangles a web of deceit in the course of tracking down
a brutal murderer.
EXCERPT
3
David
first opened the door to a closet on the left, searching it with the gun
muzzle, before approaching the door at the end of the hall and kicking it open.
An angry, naked man stood on the other side, his anger changing to fear in
seconds once he beheld the gun pointing in his direction.
“Get
back into bed,” David ordered.
The
pale-bodied man responded as he staggered backward. The foot of the bed struck
the back of his knees, sending him seated on the mattress. The woman on the bed
had by this time covered herself with the sheets, and curled her legs up.
While
Kevin stood nervously in the doorway, David searched the room and the closets,
the muzzle of the shotgun again serving as a probe, but found no one.
“What
the…?” Chase asked David.
After
searching through the room, David tossed the shotgun to Kevin.
Suddenly,
Chase went white-hot heat, crawling backward into the arms of his woman in
sheer panic screaming, “What do you
want?!”
“I
want information,” David demanded, going to the foot of the bed, standing
before them with Kevin directly behind him. “I want to know who whacked
Osterman.”
“How am I to know?!” Chase shouted back.
His hair was a wild tangle, his eyes wide as saucers with fright.
“Don’t
yell at me,” David said calmly. “I want answers. I’m not interested in killing
you.”
“You
bust into my crib and start throwing guns around. You’re crazy, man, what do
you think I’m thinking?”
“You
were moving dope for Osterman,” David persisted, ignoring Chase’s remarks.
“Osterman! He jerked me.”
“With
the Colombians.”
“Damn
right.”
“And
you didn’t like that.”
“No, I didn’t.”
“So,
you had one of your soul brothers do him in.”
“Oh
hell, no. My people don’t kill. We don’t mess with weapons like you do.”
“And
the reason for that?”
“More
jail time . . . What are you? A cop?”
“Don’t
worry about what I am,” David growled back. “You are moving weight. I want to
know what happened after Osterman jerked you.”
“He
jerked me. That’s all.”
“That’s
all? You didn’t go to the Colombians? Liar!”
“Yes,
yes, I did that!” Chase corrected. “I went to the Colombians as soon as I knew
he jerked me. I begged them to give me another chance. They said they would, if
I replaced their one hundred kilos. One
hundred kilos! How do I do that?”
“Put
bullets into Osterman for revenge.”
“How
is that going to get me my one hundred kilos?”
“Let
me explain it to you, genius. The Colombians trust Osterman enough to give him
a heavy shipment. You find it, whack him, and take his shipment back to the
Colombians. Paid in full.”
Chase
thought that over for a second or two. “But that’s not what happened.”
“Convince
me otherwise.”
The
word “Freeze!” were suddenly heard
from the doorway. David frowned as he glanced over his shoulder to see a
scruffy looking black male, armed with his
own shotgun.
AUTHOR INFORMATION:
Gregory
Delaurentis spent his adult life roaming from job to job, working for Lockheed
in California, various law firms in New York, and financial firms on Wall
Street. Throughout this period of time, he was writing—unceasingly—finally
producing a large body of work, albeit unrecognized and unpublished . . . until
now. Cover of Darkness is the first in a series of upcoming books that
include Edge of Darkness, Pale of Darkness and Cries of Darkness.
These novels follow the lives of three individuals who do battle bringing
criminals to justice, while they struggle to understand the complex
relationships that exist among themselves. This intriguing trio has absorbed
the attention of Mr. Delaurentis for the past year and a half, so much so he
decided to self-publish their stories to bring them to a wider audience. [AUTHOR’S DISCLAIMER: These are works of
fiction. Name, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the
author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual
persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.]
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