The gift of pain I generously received with no questions whatsoever,
The agony and gore from life I endured,
Master after Master I served,
Less than a human and even lesser than an animal I was.
Living day after day with no hope; no zeal; no passion; no ambition,
A puppet in the hands of the puppeteers,
A rag to be trampled upon by every passerby,
The perfect slave I was.
But hatred slowly but surely grew within me,
Self-loathing at every given chance,
I hated myself for being pathetically weak but I hated them more,
Little had I known I was slowly but surely becoming one of them,
I became more of a monster than they ever were.
A weapon of destruction and chaos,
Crafted skillfully by vengeance and revenge,
Carved in a furnace of fury and rage,
Fueled by anger and hate, I AM.
One by one I'LL MAKE THEM PAY. A faith worse than death AWAITS THEM ALL. At my mercy, THEY SHALL BE.
A serial killer stalks Barbados and Detective John Riley returns to the island to stop them before they turn their attention to the people closest to him.
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A serial killer stalks the tropical paradise of Barbados, leaving victims naked in canefields and the island police force is ill-equipped to handle the case. Enter Seattle homicide detective and Barbados native: Detective John Riley. John hasn't been back to Barbados in decades, and he has his own demons to face. But as he combats the heat, the media, and the very police force he's working to help, he desperately hopes he can stop the violence before the killer turns their attention to the people closest to him.
[[Wattys Winner]]
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