True Target
Skye Maddox is a contract assassin driven by both personal demons and professional discipline. Hired by grieving father Milo Williams to hunt down the chain of men responsible for his son’s death, Skye takes on a mission that escalates into a war with Washington, D.C.’s most dangerous underworld figures led by a man known only as Hetman. As she climbs Milo’s ladder of revenge, Skye uncovers a web of corruption that links drug dealers, judges, mobsters, and even international crime syndicates.The story escalates through brutal shootouts, betrayals, and psychological games, as Skye pushes deeper into Hetman’s empire. Each success makes her a bigger target. In the end, she must weigh the cost of finishing Milo’s revenge against the danger of becoming just another expendable weapon in someone else’s war.
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So instead, she takes Uber and in time has made an arrangement with one driver – Morris Gardner. At first, I intended for Morris (or Mo as Skye usually calls him) to be a very minor character, useful to move Skye from place to place. Skye is a loner, and I had no intention of giving her any friends. In fact, to keep Mo disconnected from her business, she told him nothing about how she made her living.
However, Mo developed a jovial personality. He naturally asked questions about where he picked Skye up and dropped her off. He was naturally curious. It seemed he would have to know she was doing something confidential and potentially dangerous. He suspected an underworld connection, but to him she could just as easily be an undercover cop or a spy. I couldn’t keep him from caring about Skye. Being older than his passenger, Mo became protective of her. What started as cold, detached conversation like you’d normally get with an Uber driver developed into something more like father-daughter dialog. Suddenly, Mo became the second banana, almost a sidekick, or as he himself put it, Cato to her Green Hornet.
And to my surprise, I liked it that way.
