Red Panda - Crime Cabal 21

Decoder Ring Theatre

Gregg Taylor

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🗓️ 13 February 2022

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

The first Red Panda adventure novel, originally published in print in 2009, now finally available through Decoder Ring Theatre.

Even the united remnants of Toronto's defeated underworld could not resist the city's masked protectors. But when they join with the murderous might of some of the masked man's deadliest foes, can even the Red Panda match the strength of... The Crime Cabal?

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0:00.0	Chapter 21. Bert Mendel was a very nervous little man. It was just his nature, really. He had been one of those awkward children who looked like they would jump out of their skins if he said boo. He had grown, of course, developed an aptitude for the natural sciences and the sort of iron stomach that best befits those who work in forensics. He had joined the Toronto
0:21.7	Coroner's Office, risen through the ranks entirely on merit, and was one of the most
0:25.5	trusted deputies of the operation. But somehow, he had never really lost the look of that
0:30.7	awkward, sweaty little boy. Many people live all their lives with such a nervous condition
0:36.8	and think nothing of it.
0:38.3	They keep to themselves or learn to avoid situations that might cause them stress.
0:42.3	Sadly, for Bert, this was quite impossible.
0:45.3	Not that he wasn't used to working in a quiet laboratory, completely surrounded by corpses.
0:50.3	Indeed, this was the only crowd in which he was ever truly at ease. But Bert Mendel was also
0:56.2	an agent of the Red Panda, and he lived in mortal terror that someone would find out. Two years before,
1:04.6	Bert had, like many others before him, become convinced that he had devised a perfect system to
1:09.5	beat the odds at games of chance.
1:11.7	He was certain that his system would grant him a life of luxury and ease
1:15.0	after beating one of the big gambling houses at their own game.
1:18.3	What Berta discovered was that the only system that such games respected was one simple rule.
1:24.0	In the end, the house always wins.
1:31.3	Before long, he had found himself hopelessly indebted to some very dangerous types every time he tried to gamble his way out he only dug his own grave a little deeper
1:36.5	in the end when the men he owed knew bert was a bad investment they concluded that he could
1:42.1	best serve their business interests as an
1:44.3	example to others who might decline to pay. And so he had found himself on a bridge, badly
1:50.1	beaten and about to be thrown into the murky and polluted waters of the Don River. He hated
1:55.4	to think of his own desiccated corpse showing up in the morgue in which he had worked, of his
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