One of Them (Vigil #2) (6 page)

With access to stockpiles of cash, anyone with half a brain would’ve headed straight out of town. Hell, with a covert government agency bearing down on their ass, a truly intelligent person would leave the country—maybe even the hemisphere. Just so I’ve made everything perfectly clear. Someone out there crossed me, and I am the dumbest bitch who ever lived.

TO BE CONTINUED IN

THE UNDERGROUND

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Born and raised in Phoenix, Arizona, Arvin Loudermilk hand wrote his first novel—a high school superhero fantasy based embarrassingly, and almost entirely, on himself—at the age of seventeen. A ‘sequel’ followed, but his focus soon turned to the intricacies of comic book writing.

In May of 1989, Arvin met Mike Iverson, a skilled illustrator and designer, and together they created the comic book series
Vigil
, a crime fiction epic featuring a gun-wielding vampire vigilante. Hot on the heels of a thousand pages of
Vigil
, they produced a sci-fi comic called
Collective
.

In the years that followed, Arvin became more and more convinced that
Collective
and
Vigil
would be natural fits in the world of prose. The development process to shift to this new creative platform was long and frustrating, but the end result, an assortment of novels and novellas, began its long-term publishing schedule with the 2012 release of
In a Flash
.