Fragile Steel (A Lea Martinez Adventure)
Tits. Leona Gabriella Martinez, Esq., is tits. Not tits as in pechos grandes. Tits as in kick-ass prosecutor. As in trial lawyer, foundling, smart-ass, mujer loca, brawler.
Lea is tits until the street fight with the skins, until the transportation auditor ends up mashed chorizo in a Phoenix dump, until six stacks of Phoenix freeway collapse at rush hour, until ordinary people hit the breaks, scream, and die.
Then she’s pissed. Fueled by a towering rage she pulls together a crack team of cops and prosecutors code-named Operation Falling Bridge. As they follow the blood and money to an enigmatic businessman known only as “Lenny,” an assassin moves in the dark. Lea has a plan to catch him; she’ll be the bait. Bring it on.
Lea reunites with her old lover, hot as a Phoenix August. As bombs explode and bullets rain fire in the night, Lea learns terrible truths about her enemy and herself. Lea is fragile steel, done dirt cheap.
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Warning!!
Fragile Steel is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to real people, companies, businesses, government, individuals or institutions is entirely made up.
But...
By some reckoning, over 90,000 miles of crumbling highways and more than 70,000 decaying bridges pose a threat to the motoring public. Why wasn’t the 2007 collapse of the I-35 bridge over the river in Minneapolis a wake-up call? Politicians don’t like to talk about highway and bridge repairs, since building fancy new roads provides ribbon-cutting photo ops. Repairs don’t. Inspections and repairs cost money. Tax money. Over half of Americans polled on the subject want better roads. But the same percentage doesn’t want to pay for them with hikes in gasoline or any other taxes. So the infrastructure continues to molder.
What if it’s worse than that? What if some bridges, ramps and freeway stacks rest on a foundation of government corruption, cheap materials and greed? What if transportation officials from administrators to inspectors are getting paid off by greedy design and construction companies? What if tickets to sporting events, fishing trips, ocean front vacations and cash are enough to get an official to look the other way when freeways are designed and built?
What if your freeway ramp was built with fragile steel?
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Lea is tits until the street fight with the skins, until the transportation auditor ends up mashed chorizo in a Phoenix dump, until six stacks of Phoenix freeway collapse at rush hour, until ordinary people hit the breaks, scream, and die.
Then she’s pissed. Fueled by a towering rage she pulls together a crack team of cops and prosecutors code-named Operation Falling Bridge. As they follow the blood and money to an enigmatic businessman known only as “Lenny,” an assassin moves in the dark. Lea has a plan to catch him; she’ll be the bait. Bring it on.
Lea reunites with her old lover, hot as a Phoenix August. As bombs explode and bullets rain fire in the night, Lea learns terrible truths about her enemy and herself. Lea is fragile steel, done dirt cheap.
<><><><>
Warning!!
Fragile Steel is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to real people, companies, businesses, government, individuals or institutions is entirely made up.
But...
By some reckoning, over 90,000 miles of crumbling highways and more than 70,000 decaying bridges pose a threat to the motoring public. Why wasn’t the 2007 collapse of the I-35 bridge over the river in Minneapolis a wake-up call? Politicians don’t like to talk about highway and bridge repairs, since building fancy new roads provides ribbon-cutting photo ops. Repairs don’t. Inspections and repairs cost money. Tax money. Over half of Americans polled on the subject want better roads. But the same percentage doesn’t want to pay for them with hikes in gasoline or any other taxes. So the infrastructure continues to molder.
What if it’s worse than that? What if some bridges, ramps and freeway stacks rest on a foundation of government corruption, cheap materials and greed? What if transportation officials from administrators to inspectors are getting paid off by greedy design and construction companies? What if tickets to sporting events, fishing trips, ocean front vacations and cash are enough to get an official to look the other way when freeways are designed and built?
What if your freeway ramp was built with fragile steel?
Fragile Steel (A Lea Martinez Adventure)
Tits. Leona Gabriella Martinez, Esq., is tits. Not tits as in pechos grandes. Tits as in kick-ass prosecutor. As in trial lawyer, foundling, smart-ass, mujer loca, brawler.
Lea is tits until the street fight with the skins, until the transportation auditor ends up mashed chorizo in a Phoenix dump, until six stacks of Phoenix freeway collapse at rush hour, until ordinary people hit the breaks, scream, and die.
Then she’s pissed. Fueled by a towering rage she pulls together a crack team of cops and prosecutors code-named Operation Falling Bridge. As they follow the blood and money to an enigmatic businessman known only as “Lenny,” an assassin moves in the dark. Lea has a plan to catch him; she’ll be the bait. Bring it on.
Lea reunites with her old lover, hot as a Phoenix August. As bombs explode and bullets rain fire in the night, Lea learns terrible truths about her enemy and herself. Lea is fragile steel, done dirt cheap.
<><><><>
Warning!!
Fragile Steel is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to real people, companies, businesses, government, individuals or institutions is entirely made up.
But...
By some reckoning, over 90,000 miles of crumbling highways and more than 70,000 decaying bridges pose a threat to the motoring public. Why wasn’t the 2007 collapse of the I-35 bridge over the river in Minneapolis a wake-up call? Politicians don’t like to talk about highway and bridge repairs, since building fancy new roads provides ribbon-cutting photo ops. Repairs don’t. Inspections and repairs cost money. Tax money. Over half of Americans polled on the subject want better roads. But the same percentage doesn’t want to pay for them with hikes in gasoline or any other taxes. So the infrastructure continues to molder.
What if it’s worse than that? What if some bridges, ramps and freeway stacks rest on a foundation of government corruption, cheap materials and greed? What if transportation officials from administrators to inspectors are getting paid off by greedy design and construction companies? What if tickets to sporting events, fishing trips, ocean front vacations and cash are enough to get an official to look the other way when freeways are designed and built?
What if your freeway ramp was built with fragile steel?
Lea is tits until the street fight with the skins, until the transportation auditor ends up mashed chorizo in a Phoenix dump, until six stacks of Phoenix freeway collapse at rush hour, until ordinary people hit the breaks, scream, and die.
Then she’s pissed. Fueled by a towering rage she pulls together a crack team of cops and prosecutors code-named Operation Falling Bridge. As they follow the blood and money to an enigmatic businessman known only as “Lenny,” an assassin moves in the dark. Lea has a plan to catch him; she’ll be the bait. Bring it on.
Lea reunites with her old lover, hot as a Phoenix August. As bombs explode and bullets rain fire in the night, Lea learns terrible truths about her enemy and herself. Lea is fragile steel, done dirt cheap.
<><><><>
Warning!!
Fragile Steel is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to real people, companies, businesses, government, individuals or institutions is entirely made up.
But...
By some reckoning, over 90,000 miles of crumbling highways and more than 70,000 decaying bridges pose a threat to the motoring public. Why wasn’t the 2007 collapse of the I-35 bridge over the river in Minneapolis a wake-up call? Politicians don’t like to talk about highway and bridge repairs, since building fancy new roads provides ribbon-cutting photo ops. Repairs don’t. Inspections and repairs cost money. Tax money. Over half of Americans polled on the subject want better roads. But the same percentage doesn’t want to pay for them with hikes in gasoline or any other taxes. So the infrastructure continues to molder.
What if it’s worse than that? What if some bridges, ramps and freeway stacks rest on a foundation of government corruption, cheap materials and greed? What if transportation officials from administrators to inspectors are getting paid off by greedy design and construction companies? What if tickets to sporting events, fishing trips, ocean front vacations and cash are enough to get an official to look the other way when freeways are designed and built?
What if your freeway ramp was built with fragile steel?
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BN ID: | 2940014735940 |
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Publisher: | DalFam Media |
Publication date: | 05/31/2012 |
Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
Format: | eBook |
File size: | 722 KB |
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