Tell us about
you.
My name is Raymond
Hunter. I used to be a hit man for the Italian mafia. Now it’s
fifteen years later, I’m a husband and father of two, and the mob wants me
back.
Tell us more
about your family.
I’ve
been married for fourteen years to Brenda, the love of my life. We have two children, Yvonne who is fourteen
and Max who is ten.
Yvonne’s
happy as long as she has her cell for texting.
Max is the largest NASCAR fan I’ve ever known. Everything in his room is covered with the
logo, including his car-shaped bed, his school backpack, and several pairs of
his pajamas.
Brenda
works full-time in a small office where she’s responsible for a little bit of everything.
What about
you? When you’re not a mafia hit man,
what do you do?
I
worked hard to obtain my accounting certificates and became a certified
accountant. In fact, I run my own
business. Part of the reason for the
choice was just the way my mind works naturally. I calculate, weighing in various
factors. The other reason was the rumor
is accountants lead boring lives. After
my time with the Mafia, I wanted something low key.
How did you meet
Brenda?
I
met Brenda one night, about fifteen years ago, when I was asked to guard the
Don’s back room door. It was in a club
and Brenda was drunk! She thought I was
guarding the bathroom. She even ended up
vomiting on my shoes. Yeah, it would
have been the clincher for most men, but with what I did for the mob, bodily
fluids didn’t bother me as much as they would some people.
Come
to think of it, I never got the reason for her being at the club that night...
What is a
special thing that your family always likes to do together?
Sunday
brunch.
It’s like a religious event. No
matter our schedules, we have pancakes, bacon, and eggs as a family.
Why are their
lives at risk?
Hate
this question. My fault--plain and
simple. If my past lifestyle hadn’t been
what it was, they wouldn’t be in
danger. As it is, the Mafia came back
and demanded one final favor. The first
assassination attempt failed and it resulted in the Don’s son kidnapping my
family and holding them as leverage for me to finish the job.
What are you
most proud of in your life?
Easy
question. My family.
Give us a little
bit more about your background. What was
it like for you growing up?
Well,
as I’ve said, I come from a stable household.
My parents were happily married.
I’ll add they are also religious and regular at attending church.
Coming from that
background where did you find your interest for guns?
A
childhood friend of mine used to keep old copies of his Father’s hunting
magazines in his tree house. I was
fascinated at an early age by guns, their design, their power.
I
made my first homemade zip gun by the age of seventeen. The accuracy was pathetic, and honestly, I
was lucky I didn’t injure myself or anyone else in the process. As the bullet fired out of the barrel, the
heat of it singed my fingers, but I got wise and started to wear gloves as I
tinkered with it.
You're now a
family man, husband and father to two children, do you find it hard reverting
back to your old lifestyle?
Unbelievably
hard, but I don’t have a choice. I have
to dig within and find that person again--the killer.
When
I first worked for the Mafia, I was single and had nothing to lose. Now, I have everything to lose.
What is the
largest secret you're keeping from your wife, besides the dark past?
The
gun locker in the basement and gun range Thursdays.
When the mafia
comes back they want you to kill Governor Behler? Who is she to you, if anything?
Governor
Behler is one of my largest clients at my accounting firm and distant
friend. Brenda and I have even been to
her house for dinner before. She is
different from any mark I’ve take out in every way.
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The above-noted piece is fictional and was written for promotional
purposes. Raymond Hunter is the main
character in Assassination of a Dignitary
coming March 14th to Amazon for Kindle, and in April for print. Be sure to
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Here’s the overview:
Raymond Hunter's dark past has returned
and demands one final favor. Now fifteen years later, settled as an
accountant and family man, he assumed life would be calm. He thought
wrong. The Italian mafia wants him back.
The directions were simple: Kill
Governor Behler and be out for good.
This is an odd request since the mafia
typically respects dignitaries, however, in order to protect his family he has
no choice but to accept the job.
He picks the date and
location—Niagara Falls, New York—two hundred and forty miles away. But by
the time he returns home, he finds out the assassination attempt failed, his
family has been kidnapped, and he has twenty-four hours to set things right if
he wants to see them again.
With time running out, Raymond discovers
the real reason they wanted Behler dead and finds out he’s placed himself and
his family right in the middle of a mafia power struggle. What he doesn’t realize is that law
enforcement is also closing in.
CAROLYN
ARNOLD is the author of the best-selling Madison Knight Series, and the
Brandon Fisher FBI Series. You can find
out more about Carolyn and her novels online in the following places:
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