He liked to think he’d made up for some of the wrongs his own father had done. Thomas Marshall, Jr. had been the town drunk and an abuser. He’d come from a long line of abusers, thieves, and criminals. His dad’s brother was serving time over in federal lockup for multiple murders.The best thing to ever happen to Gideon had probably been his father’s death … at the hands of his brother. The two of them had gone joyriding, leaving a trail a mile wide behind them.Theft was only the start of it.They’d stolen money, drugs, guns. A couple of guys had gotten in their way and they’d stolen two human lives as well. Then a woman hadn’t opened up a door and they’d busted down the door and busted her up. The more time that passed without them being caught, the crazier they got.By the time they wound down at the end of a ten-day crime spree, Tommy and Billy Marshall had stolen well over eighty-five thousand dollars, had caused nearly double that in property damage, and they’d killed three people and put two more in the hospital—one of them had been the woman who’d dared to say no.Holed up in a hotel room, they’d been counting up their spoils when they’d started fighting.
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