Red Panda – The Mind Master chapter 21
Decoder Ring Theatre
Gregg Taylor
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🗓️ 17 April 2023
⏱️ 7 minutes
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The second Red Panda adventure novel, now finally available in audiobook format through Decoder Ring Theatre.
Sinister forces are at work, striking within the very heart of the city's elite with powers that seem otherworldly. Are the attacks random? Simply for profit? Or is an unknown predator hunting our masked heroes themselves? If the mysterious Ajay Shah really does have powers that rival the Red Panda, will even the Terrific Twosome of Toronto be able to resist the might of... The Mind Master?
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| 0:00.0 | Chapter 21. A garbage can rattled and rolled down the dark of the alley. From somewhere high above, a light was turned on in response to the racket, but no voice was raised. Larry Beckett smiled as he stepped gingerly through the darkness, weaving erratically as he did so. He carried on in this manner for another dozen yards, |
| 0:21.9 | during which he suffered another three collisions with small, inanimate objects. |
| 0:26.8 | Beckett came to rest with one hand against a brick wall. His head was spinning, and he was sweating |
| 0:31.8 | more profusely than the cool, damp evening would seem to dictate, but he smiled for all that. |
| 0:37.4 | Nothing was going to spoil his fun. |
| 0:40.4 | Things hadn't been this easy for Larry Beckett in a long time. He was a small-time grifter |
| 0:45.3 | and occasional underworld operative when the mood struck him, which wasn't very often. Like so many |
| 0:50.9 | others, Beckett had got into crime because it seemed simpler and easier than working for a living, |
| 0:56.0 | and if there was one thing Larry Beckett despised, it was anything that smacked of work. |
| 1:02.0 | These days, though, the field was crowded, and there were just as many dishonest as honest men left without a chance to ply their trades. |
| 1:09.0 | Small-time hoods were in every dive hanging around, |
| 1:12.4 | hoping to catch on with one of the city's remaining gangs. There had been a time when a man like |
| 1:17.2 | Beckett could attach himself to an outfit and hang on for the ride. These days even the hangers |
| 1:22.1 | on needed ambition, and ambition had always been the one thing Larry Beckett was most singularly lacking. |
| 1:29.1 | But today had been a good day, and he had cash in his pocket and a belly full of liquor to prove it. |
| 1:34.0 | So what if he'd had to sell out that chump Grant to get it? |
| 1:37.3 | If he was any judge of horse flesh, Miles Grant would have turned the same favor for him, given half the chance, |
| 1:42.8 | or so Beckett told himself as he lurched |
| 1:44.6 | forward deeper into the alley. He jumped for a moment as something scurried across his path. |
| 1:50.7 | His heart was still pounding a moment later as he chuckled to himself. If he was going to jump |
| 1:54.4 | at rats, he really shouldn't have cut through this alley. But he knew he wouldn't be able to stay |
| 1:59.0 | on his feet much longer, and he just wanted to get |
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