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Blinking is supposed to be the fastest movement the human body is physically capable of.

Even so, it hardly compares to the brain’s electrical synapses.

‘Not now!’ was the thought that flashed through his head when the light hit him.

And, from his point of view, he was absolutely right. There ought to be more time, plenty of time – that was what he had been promised. After all, he had followed the instructions to the letter, had done exactly what he had been told to do.

So this shouldn’t be happening.

Not now!

Absolutely not!

His surprise was entirely understandable, not to say logical. And it was also the last sensory impression of his life.

A millisecond later the explosion turned him into a charred jigsaw puzzle that would take the police forensics team more than a week to put together. Piece by piece, like a macabre family game, until he was more or less back in his original shape.

But by then the Game was long since over.