Dead Man Walking

By David Green

Nick Holleran, private detective, thought he had life figured out. Until the day he died. Holleran woke to the horrifying truth. Hell is Earth, and the demons live among us. Taking the cases others won't, Holleran is plunged into an investigation that forces him to confront his past. Revenge is a sin, and the price is high. For Nick Holleran, work is hell; and this time it's personal.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Black Hare Press
• Release date: Mar 2, 2021
• ISBN: 9781393574293

David Green

David Green is the founder and CEO of Hobby Lobby, the largest privately owned arts and crafts retailer in the world. Hobby Lobby employs over 33,000 people, operates 800 stores in forty-seven states, and grosses more than $5 billion dollars a year. Currently David serves on the Board of Reference for Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma. In 2013, he was honored by receiving the World Changer award and is also a past Ernst & Young national retail/consumer Entrepreneur of the Year Award recipient. In 2017, the Green family opened the Museum of the Bible in Washington, DC.

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DEAD MAN WALKING

A NICK HOLLERAN BOOK

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DAVID GREEN

Available from Black Hare Press

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Copyright © 2020 David Green

First published in Australia in November 2020 by Black Hare Press

The author retains the copyright of the works featured in this publication

All characters and events in this publication, other than those clearly in the public domain, are fictitious and any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

All rights reserved. No part of this production may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher and copyright owner.

ISBN 978-1-925809-80-0

Edited by D. Kershaw

Formatting by Ben Thomas

Cover design by Dawn Burdett

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For Ollie. Hope your dad makes you proud.

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David, November 2020

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PROLOGUE

SPECTRES OF THE PAST

TROUBLE AT THE STYX

ILL OMENS

OCCULT’S A DIRTY WORD

REVENGE IS A DISH BEST SERVED...HOT

EPILOGUE: AFTER...

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

ABOUT THE PUBLISHER

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PROLOGUE

Might say life changed the day I died.

Can’t say I saw it coming, but as I breathed my last, I came to terms with it. A bright light warmed me as I floated above my body. A pang of regret shot through my conscience as rivers of blood slid from three bullet holes in my chest, turning the white shirt I wore crimson. The regret grew when a woman raced towards my prone body, pressing her hands and jacket to the wounds, holding the precious blood inside that sack of meat and bones.

The light that beckoned me with gentle love stopped calling. I hovered there between life and death—not wanting to go back, but unable to move on. Paramedics arrived on the scene in record time and coaxed my body back to life. An undesired miracle.

What happens to a man once he knows God is real? That if a stranger had gone left instead of right, I’d have bled out in an alley crammed with filth and joined Him