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    Nefarious Good
    Nefarious Good
    Nefarious Good
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    Nefarious Good

    By Shawn O'Toole

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    Aliens and humans. Guns and swords. Magic and technology. The Galactic War is over and the races have returned to "business as usual." The alien swordsman Nefarious Good has become restless in this bustling time of supposed peace. He ventures to the boom town of a frontier world and offers his martial prowess for hire. His first client is a robbed merchant. His first mission is to steal back what was stolen from her. The big war may be over but the small, private ones prove bloody.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherShawn O'Toole
    Release dateNov 7, 2013
    ISBN9781310722226
    Nefarious Good
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    Shawn O'Toole

    Shawn O'Toole is an avid reader who expresses his love of literature by writing his own. Though his favorite works are classical fiction, most of his actual reading is historical or scientific non-fiction. He combines his inspirations to create yarns that are fantastic yet believable. He is restless and eager, so one need not wait to delve into his adventures.

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      Nefarious Good - Shawn O'Toole

      NEFARIOUS GOOD

      by

      Shawn O’Toole

      SMASHWORDS EDITION

      *****

      PUBLISHED BY:

      Shawn O’Toole on Smashwords

      Cover Art Illustrated by:

      Shawn O’Toole

      Nefarious Good

      Copyright © Shawn O’Toole 2013

      Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored, or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, or otherwise) without the prior written permission of both the copyright owner and the publisher of this story, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

      Your support and respect for the property of this author is much appreciated.

      This story is a work of fiction and any resemblance to persons, living or dead, or places, events or locales is purely coincidental. The characters are products of the author’s imagination and used fictitiously.

      *****

      NEFARIOUS GOOD

      *****

      Chapter 1

      Miss Yellow’s Plight

      The Mystic Confederacy was the apex of an ancient civilization of a strange, alien race. Nefarious Good was a citizen of this wondrous society and a member of its ruling species. As a soldier in its Confederate Army he won honor and glory in war. His beloved Confederacy had since vanquished or made peace with its enemies. Nefarious had become restless. Though he loved his people and their ways he needed adventure to be at peace. He needed a career for a sense of purpose. Already trained in the art of war, he equipped himself and sought his fortune as a soldier of fortune.

      Medley was a desert planet claimed by three of the six Galactic Powers: the Mystic Confederacy, the Greater Humanity Empire and the Democratic Plutocracy of Lith. Skirmishes had been fought over Medley but none of the claimants considered the planet worth a full-scale war. The three powers instead agreed to disagree in peace. They established an administrative entity equally represented by all three claimants. The base of operations for this ad hoc government attracted merchants seeking its favor. The base became a makeshift town and soon grew into a bustling, frontier, multiracial city. For lack of a better name, the human representative in the Administrative Triad referred to the community as For Now City. The other two members of the Triad were amused by this nickname and formally adopted it as its official designation. The human member was rather surprised.

      Nefarious Good came to For Now City looking for work. His tall, slender form negotiated the crowded streets on his way for a meeting. Like all people of his race, his skin was bluish beige and his every feature long and narrow. His irises were large and deep blue. The hair of his scalp and chin was long and lustrous black.

      For Now City was prosperous, but rather lawless. Private security, not actual law enforcement officers, maintained some semblance of peace about. Nefarious himself was clad in sleek, black leather armor. He wore a sword on his right hip and two others strapped to his back. A dagger was worn in his left boot. He was one of countless pedestrians armored and heavily armed, so his equipment did not attract any unpleasant attention.

      Nefarious found a Concubine Merchant of the Great Seen Unseen where they agreed to meet: at an outside table of a restaurant that catered to

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