Fragmented Bodies

<p><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>He yawned as the door closed and his face disappeared.</em></p><p></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Outside a watcher shuddered.</em></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Retired university professor R.I. Penny believed assassins existed only in action movies dramatic works of fiction and occasionally politics.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Unfortunately for him he finds this view shaken when two assassins attempt to 'retire' him full stop.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Enlisting his friends Dove and Periwinkle Penny swiftly becomes both hunter and hunted as they seek out the assassins and their reasons for wanting Penny dead.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Luck Penny believes is a quality a personal attribute. But is his about to run out?</span></p><p></p>