Scouts

by Jarrett Rush

When Jackson Cane spots a trio of twenty-somethings in a restaurant, his instincts tell him something's wrong. When he sees them later, he finds out he couldn't have been more right, and that's bad news for Jackson Cane and the rest of the Freak Police. This 13,000-word story is the second in the series of Jackson Cane adventures.

41 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 1, 2012

About the author

Are your mid-30s too late to try and live a dream? I certainly hope not, because that's what I'm doing. For as long as I can remember I've wanted to be a writer.

It wasn't until I met my wife that I got serious about publication. She gave me the push I needed to try and make my dream a reality.

I'm a genre writer. My stories typically involve normal people dropped into a bad situation. That may be a monster story or a crime story or a sci-fi story. But the one thing that will be in nearly all of them is the normal guy. Someone who's a little down on his luck, just trying to get through today. He'll worry about tomorrow tomorrow. I suppose that means you could classify me as a noir writer. Not a traditional one, I don't suppose. And I'm definitely not a writer of what's become modern noir. That stuff is crazy. Quadruple amputee heroines running drugs for a Mexican cartel and stuff like that. I don't go there. My stories are tame by comparison. But they are noir. They're dark. The main character is down on his luck. His back is against the wall and he's forced into action, and not always action he's happy about taking.