CLOAK OF IRON, another brief excerpt

It’s Friday! Let’s close out the week with another brief excerpt from CLOAK OF IRON.

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She didn’t change her stance, didn’t do anything threatening, but Neil knew that for a second, until she recovered from her surprise, Nadia was considering him as a target.

Most people, he knew, had a hard time working themselves up to violence. Neil didn’t, but that wasn’t true of most people, even veteran soldiers. Violence was a bit like acceleration, and it took most people some effort to go from zero to sixty.

Nadia MacCormac, he suspected, idled at around twenty miles an hour.

Maybe thirty.

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-JM