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orado night. Then the sound of footsteps behind
him--almost inaudible--registered suddenly in his
brain. He resisted the urge to immediately whirl; he
could tell by the sound that the feet were still too far
away for their owner to be a threat.
And they might be a diversion for something
ahead.
Squinting under the streetlights, Buchanan
scanned the night as he walked on. He saw nothing
out of the ordinary. Finally he glanced over his





shoulder. As he turned, he saw a flash of movement
in the doorway to his side.
He turned back toward the dark figure with the
grace and speed that had earned him his nickname.
The Davis derringer leaped into his hand. His thumb
found the hammer, but before he could cock the sin-
gle-action weapon a fist slammed into his sternum.
Air shot up from Buchanan's lungs and out his
mouth. He pushed out hard with his belly, trying to
correct the vacuum that had been created in his chest,
as the derfinger was ripped from his fingers. His left
fist jabbed out, striking what felt like a jaw. He heard
a crunch and then a grunt, but his punch slowed his
attacker for only a moment. The shadowy form drove
another fist into Buchanan's abdomen, and he bent
double.
Gasping for air, Buchanan fished into the trench
coat for the knife as a second shadowy figure joined
the first. Buchanan lashed out at the dark form with
a front snap kick that caught the second man in the
shin. He heard another grunt, but the shadow kept
coming.
An arm wrapped around Buchanan's neck. He
flipped his wrist to open the knife but something--a
hand, arm, shoulder--got in the way and stopped the
blade halfway out of the handle. The knife snapped
back closed.
Another fist struck Buchanan's ribs. A moment
later, the blade was pried from his fingers like the
derringer had been.
Buchanan heard the footsteps again. Running now,

they were close. As he continued to gasp for air, a
shoulder struck him squarely in the back and then
he, the two men in front of him and whoever had