Sample excerpt from Cutter's Edge - a Novel by Tom Mairs
Cutter was a big man, a tall man, a mean man; at least that's what everyone thought, and that's exactly the way John Cutter liked it. His broad shoulders carried more than a thick neck and sharp mind; the weight of a hundred battles won sat squarely on them along with the lives he took to win them.
There was a rustle in the leaves behind him on the street, but John kept walking along the cobblestone sidewalk. It could have been the wind, or any of the twenty or so other people walking on the same sidewalk, but it wasn't, and he knew it. He knew the pattern of the footsteps and the unusual absence of sound - the sound of someone skilled in stealth approach - the sound of one of the men he may have trained in a former life.....