by magmaman
You had them pass a big bump in the road. I am amazed at Tears of Sorrow, he is apparently so up tight that he would get the girl killed in order to defend his honor. Anyone who thinks along those lines has no business going into to undercover work... He would be a lose cannon.
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I was expecting one of the two toughs to turn out to be
an undercover policeman too in order to follow the old Russian proverb that when four people get together to
plot against the government, three are from the police...
Under the circumstances I would choose death. My honour is my own. I do not cheat and would not cheat if my life depended on it. And even though the man in this story is not married, what he is doing amounts to cheating. Forced as it is, and I understand why they did it. I would not do it. If you think that is crazy, that is your choice, but you do not know honour as I do.
This is just a scene from a detective pulp I have been working on. Since I mostly do shorts for adventure collections/romance I never really wrote a cops and robbers before. I wanted to try something on the lines of the old Shell Scott type stuff.
Funny thing is, after I posted it to review, a few days later I was watching a cop show on TV that had a similar scene.
Yep, oddly familiar to me too.
MGM
It seems that I read this story before or at least one very close to it.