Meat Market

By David Edward

From award-winning author David Edward comes the gritty and powerful Dirk Lasher Short Read, Meat Market. Short reads are bite-sized adventures for new and old Dirk Lasher fans alike.

 

The soldiers called them the Meat Markets. Gathering places outside of US military posts all around Central America, where a good time was just a few negotiations and a few dollars away. Some locals went looking to pass the time; some went to make some money. The dark criminal underworld couldn't resist the chance to feed off base human desire.

 

When Dirk Lasher and Isa Kern encounter a kidnapping-in-progress, they sprint into action. They are forced to balance their moral responsibility of trying to help the victims with their overarching mission of stamping the secret organization's global sex trade out of existence.

 

This Short Read takes place immediately before the events of Ground Game, the next Dirk Lasher Thriller.

• Language: English
• Publisher: David Edward
• Release date: Feb 16, 2022
• ISBN: 9798201273583

David Edward

D. Edward served as a Special Agent in the US Army in the 1980s and 1990s and is a veteran of multiple overseas combat tours. He was the Special Agent in Charge of the 1990 Panama Canal counter-terrorism threat assessment report to the US Congress. Edward is a graduate of the United States Army Intelligence School where he studied advanced HUMINT (Human Intelligence) and battlefield counterintelligence; also completing training at the Jungle Operations Training Center in Panama, Central America. He holds advanced degrees in engineering including a Ph.D. from NCU, three related M.Sc. degrees (MBA, MSIT, MSIM), and has an undergraduate degree in business (BSBA). His books typically reach the Amazon Kindle top 10 upon release in their genre. 'End of Reason' was his first work to reach #1 on Amazon in its category, on June 22, 2021. 'Unreasonable' reached #1 as a pre-order and held the spot for over a month upon release. You can follow his publication schedule here: d-edward.com or email him at his first name, the at sign, the first three letters of the word Florida, a dot, and the word cloud. He did have a Twitter account but then he thought it was stupid so he canceled it.

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This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Meat Market

A Dirk Lasher Quick Read

If you find yourself in a fair fight, you didn't plan your mission properly.

– Military Wisdom

Other books by David Edward

Historical Supernatural/Suspense:

Alamosa

The Smalls

The Bigs (2022)

Science Fiction:

Reason

Complicated

Improbable

Ancient

End of Reason

War Machine

Unreasonable

Oldtech

Military Thrillers:

Panama Red

Drive Faster

Ground Game

Storm Fire (2022)

Authors Note

This is an important short story set immediately before the start of the book Ground Game . This short stands alone well enough, designed to serve both new readers and the Lasher faithful. If this is your first time reading any Dirk Lasher books, you can get a sense of the style and characters here. If you have read the other books, you should enjoy this little adventure and the new insights into Dirk's right-hand compatriot, Isa Kern.

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From award-winning author David Edward comes the gritty and powerful Dirk Lasher Short Read, Meat Market . Short reads are bite-sized adventures for new and old Dirk Lasher fans alike.

The soldiers called them the Meat Markets. Gathering places outside of US military posts all around Central America, where a good time was just a few negotiations and a few dollars away. Some locals went looking to pass the time; some went to make some money. The dark criminal underworld couldn't resist the chance to feed off base human desire.

When Dirk Lasher and Isa Kern encounter a kidnapping-in-progress, they sprint into action. They are forced to balance their moral responsibility of trying to help the victims with their overarching mission of stamping the secret organization's global sex trade out of existence.

This Short Read takes place immediately before the events of Ground Game, the next Dirk Lasher Thriller.

Fort Sherman, Panama, September 1988

The sun had set just as the exterior lights of the gatehouse began to flicker on in preparation for the coming darkness. There was a small crowd off to one side: this would be the beginning of the market.

Fort Sherman was a relatively small Army post; it housed just under three thousand soldiers, including the Jungle Warfare Training Center staff. The base covered a lot of ground, but only a tiny percentage of it was developed; the rest was jungle and