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If you buy this book, you'll get access to 65 other short stories and two full length novels at no extra cost. The best description is an excerpt: The heavy-set woman slapped as hard as a blacksmith hitting an anvil. The young woman rocked back and held her cheek. The old lady yelled, "Traitor! You're fired!" "Now dear..." The little man fluttered his hands and did little else. C. Tanner Brown, co-owner of the Sun Detective Agency, watched Senator Kenworthy Blake do nothing while his wife assaulted a woman half her size. The Senator looked like he had withered from a powerful man to the kind of man who held his hands in front of him and said, "Now dear..." He was well over 70 and touched things as he moved through a room for support. His wife, Lillian, had the posture of a Marine in a parade. She was five feet nine inches worth of attention to detail, political intuition and ruthless management ability. The Senator tended to stay in the office and study reports with his eyes closed. The third person in the room held a hand to a cheek the color of which would have done justice to a fire plug on a good day. She was about 25 with hair like corn silk and water-smooth skin. She wore a blue blouse and tan pants and no jewelry. Her deep blue eyes could have welded steel girders. Her voice came out calm and hard. "I don't work for you. You have no position in this office. You can't fire me or anyone else." "Ken. You fire this woman. Now!"