Such assurances in her dying moments meant nothing to Darlene, and she fired until there was nothing left in the chamber. Nunn’s body vibrated like a tuning fork with each additional shot he took. One bullet shattered his glasses and continued straight on through his eye, putting a certain end to what would have been undoubtedly a promising, if somewhat corrupt, law career. He slumped down after that, having no life left in him to keep himself in anything like a vertical position.
Darlene, had the pain not been what it was, might have thought to save a bullet or two for Harry because certainly she had it in mind to kill him, too. But all she could do was to click the empty .38 over and over again. She nodded with satisfaction at seeing Nunn dead, then gradually turned to face Harry. “Oh, you’re a shit,” she said. With each word she uttered more blood perched on the edge of her lips. She closed her eyes, opened them again, saying, “Light’s all gone, isn’t it?” Then she flopped down at Harry’s feet.
Now Harry heard the sound of men racing down the hall immediately outside the door. “Matt!” they were calling. “Are you in there, Matt?” Even at this point so late in the game they were reluctant to enter the inner sanctum without permission.
Harry had no intention of fighting off yet another regiment of gunmen. Everyone’s luck ran out sometime. So he rushed out to the terrace and looked down. There was the pool all right. Swim to the end of it, clamber up and run, and you’d be lost in a thick undergrowth. Safety beckoned there.
The knocking continued, louder, more insistent. Someone was pulling on the handle. Harry turned, fired twice at the door. There was a loud groan in response. Harry had won himself a few moments’ time. Since he did not share the late Robert Nunn’s compunctions about diving into the pool, Harry balanced himself precariously on the railing and jumped.
A beautifully executed dive into the blue.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
DANE HARTMAN was a Warner Books imprint pseudonym used by two American novelists, Ric Meyers and Leslie Alan Horvitz. "Hartman" was credited as the author of the Dirty Harry action series based on the “Dirty” Harry Callahan character of the popular 1970’s and 1980’s films starring Clint Eastwood.
Following the release of the third Dirty Harry movie, The Enforcer, in 1976, Clint Eastwood made it clear that he did not intend to make any more Dirty Harry movies. In 1981, Warner Books (the publishing arm of Warner Bros., which made the films) began publishing a number of men's adventure series under its now-defunct "Men of Action" line. One such series features the further adventures of Inspector Harry Callahan. The series was brought to an end when Eastwood decided to direct, produce, and star in a fourth Dirty Harry movie, Sudden Impact, which was released in December 1983.
DIRTY HARRY #2 DEATH ON THE DOCKS
THE BEGINNING . . .
CHAPTER ONE
CHAPTER TWO
CHAPTER THREE
CHAPTER FOUR
CHAPTER FIVE
CHAPTER SIX
CHAPTER EIGHT
CHAPTER NINE
CHAPTER TEN
CHAPTER ELEVEN
CHAPTER TWELVE
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
ABOUT THE AUTHOR