A Necessary Evil

Operation WetFish #5

by Adam Carter

Police incompetence, witness intimidation, expensive lawyers. There are many reasons the guilty walk free of court. For Operation WetFish, a legal and entirely unorthodox department of the Metropolitan police, the courts never have the final say. Frame-ups, alerting rival gangs or simply making the bad guys disappear . . . Operation WetFish employs a variety of methods to clean up the mistakes of the courts.

Charles Baronaire lives for the thrill of making the streets safe. But Baronaire has other things on his mind. He’s stronger, faster, more agile than ordinary human beings; he can focus his mind to alter people’s perceptions, can establish command over nature’s baser creatures. And he has an insatiable appetite for human blood.

When a cleaning lady witnesses a WetFish officer executing her employer, Baronaire is set the task of silencing her. Tagging along is the department’s newest recruit, Detective Sue Lin. Lin’s conscience is getting in the way of Baronaire’s work, for killing villains is one thing, but silencing civilians is not something Lin is prepared to do. But Baronaire is already having a bad day, and having to deal with a squeamish colleague is only making things worse. As the hunt continues, Baronaire begins to wonder whether it might not be such a bad idea were Detective Lin to also disappear before the night is through.

73 pages, Kindle Edition

First published February 9, 2015

About the author

I like to tell stories. Sometimes they have to be big, sometimes they work better small. I like to write serials which can be read without reading all the ones which came before. There's nothing more off-putting than a book you can't understand! I work in as many genres as possible and read anything I can get my hands on, but have an especial love of Edgar Rice Burroughs and Alexandre Dumas. They both understood stories should be fun. Primarily I enjoy exploring characters; and the best thing about continuing fiction is gradually changing characters with whom the reader can laugh and cry and love and hate. And finally I think every book has room for humour, especially when it's inappropriate.