| When John
Tallow and his partner answer a call to a walkup in
New York City, they find a naked man yelling and waving
a shotgun. He’s on the third floor, near the landing.
Tallow’s partner goes in first, pulling his weapon
and taking aim at the naked man. When he identified
himself as police, the naked man fired the shotgun and
took half the partner’s head off. Spattered with
his partner’s blood and brain matter, John Tallow,
who already had his gun drawn, shot the naked man, putting
four bullets in his chest and one in the center of his
forehead. The shotgun wielder wouldn’t kill anyone
else.
When the investigators checked to see if everyone was
uninjured, they got no answer from apartment 3A. They
tried to break the door down, but it wouldn’t
budge. Tallow told them to bring in the ram. That didn’t
budge the door, either, so Tallow told them to take
out the wall. When they finally got inside, the walls
were filled with guns. They seemed to be arranged in
patterns, like the parts of a machine. When investigators
checked them out, they found that each gun was used
in an unsolved murder, beginning twenty years ago. Each
one was tied to the victim in a unique way.
“Gun Machine” is a real thriller. I feel
the profanity doesn’t aid the story and the violence
doesn’t need to be so graphic. If you put that
aside, this is one wild and hairy story! The plot takes
unbelievable twists and turns as we find out more about
the hunter and what people will do for money. Read by
Reg E. Cathey, the characters come alive and make the
plot live. Listen to “Gun Machine” and get
involved in solving the weirdest case I’ve ever
read about!
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