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    Horns
    Horns
    Horns
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    Horns

    By Mark Troy

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    Its rodeo time in up-country Maui. Honolulu private eye Val Lyon is investigating some thefts. The victim? A 1700 pound bag of aggression named Terminator. Terminator is a champion bull. What was taken? Bull sperm. The likely suspects are a champion bull rider and a barrel clown. The case soon turns deadly and Val finds herself in danger of losing her heart to the cowboy and her life to a killer.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMark Troy
    Release dateSep 29, 2011
    ISBN9781466096905
    Horns
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    Mark Troy

    Mark Troy is a native of St. Louis, Missouri. He and his wife served as Peace Corps Volunteers in Thailand where they taught English and supervised student teachers. After the Peace Corps, the Troys moved to Hawaii for graduate school. They now live in Texas where Mark is an administrator and researcher at the Texas A&M University. Mark has degrees from Quincy University, Washington University and the University of Hawaii. The Troys have two sons a daughter-in-law, one granddaughter and one grandson.When not writing, Mark runs marathons. He has completed 18 so far.

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      Horns - Mark Troy

      Horns

      by

      Mark Troy

      Published by Ilium Books at Smashwords

      Copyright 2009 Mark Troy

      All rights reserved. The use of any part of this publication reproduced, transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written consent of the publisher is an infringement of the copyright law.

      Originally published in The Thrilling Detective,

      January 2009

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      HORNS

      Doyle Gillespie bellowed in a voice as loud as his shirt, a yellow and red hangover of martini glasses and hula girls. Sperm-jacking, he said. Somebody's getting to my bulls. Taking the goblins right outta the pipe, you might say.

      Gillespie smiled at his own wit. I took a long pull on my tonic and lime, hoping it would settle my stomach, wishing I'd ordered it with vodka.

      Sperm-jacking? How can you tell? I asked, keeping my own voice low. We sat at a beachside table at Duke's in Waikiki. I choose public places to meet prospective clients, but this time I regretted the decision.

      A bull is a sperm-making machine, Miss Lyon, and the champion stuff gets top dollar from breeders. My sperm is the best there is, anywhere.

      Dozens of heads turned in our direction.

      A bull's balls produce all the time, but you ejaculate him too often, you get fewer wigglies per cup of snot. The count doesn't drop much, but even a small dip tells me what's going on.

      Uh, doesn't that happen naturally sometimes? I tried recalling my college biology from too many years earlier.

      Not if he's healthy.

      Maybe your bull got himself in the corral with a willing cow. I was searching for familiar territory. As a private investigator, I'd followed plenty of roaming spouses.

      Gillespie shook his head. "It's the cowboys get the action

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