Niko caught my hand and slapped it lightly down on the bar. Pistol whipping elderly women isn't precisely our mission statement, Cal. I hadn't been going to pistol-whip her. Yell at her a little more, then pick her up and toss her out into the street. Some risk of a broken hip there, but that wasn't pistol-whipping… unless she tried to come back in.

Roadkill: A Cal Leandros Novel (ed. Penguin, 2010) - ISBN: 9781101185612