The Leader: A Reed and Billie Novel

“ Six quarts is way more than necessary for something like that ” Reed said. “It’s not just overkill... ” Letting his voice trail off he blinked several times bringing himself back into the moment with the realization that it was a statement. Of what he had not a clue. The call was not unlike several others that Columbus Police and state Bureau of Criminal Investigation Detective Reed Mattox and his K-9 partner Billie had received over the years. A domestic squabble involving a man armed with liquid courage from a night at the bar convinced that his girlfriend was having an affair with her boss. Unable to be talked down he had grabbed a gun from the nightstand and stormed off intent on meting out his own form of justice. Desperate and verging on hysterics his girlfriend had phoned the police asking them to keep him from doing something stupid and finishing what he set out to do. An ultimate goal that someo