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eBook Category: Science Fiction
eBook Description: The worst serial killer in history has a very special secret.

eBook Publisher: Fictionwise.com, Published: Analog, 2002
Fictionwise Release Date: March 2003

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Available eBook Formats [MultiFormat - What's this?]: Adobe Acrobat (PDF) [151 KB], eReader (PDB) [57 KB], Palm Doc (PDB) [46 KB], Rocket/REB1100 (RB) [41 KB], Microsoft Reader (LIT) [84 KB] - PocketPC 1.0+ Compatible, Franklin eBookMan (FUB) [115 KB], hiebook (KML) [122 KB], Sony Reader (LRF) [74 KB], iSilo (PDB) [38 KB], Mobipocket (PRC) [47 KB], Kindle Compatible (MOBI) [75 KB], OEBFF Format (IMP) [64 KB]
Words: 12745
Reading time: 36-50 min.
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"The irrepressible Rajnar Vajra is back with another Harry Harrison riff in "Partner in Crime." I detect a strong nod to Slippery Jim diGriz in this story of a reformed murderer, a beautiful female prisoner, and hidden superpowers galore. I never quite bought into Vajra's descriptions of the Partner technology, but he kept the story flowing so well I didn't think about it until afterward. Interesting reading, good entertainment, good science fiction."--Jay Lake, Tangent Online (Learn more about Tangent Online, the Internet's leading SF&F short fiction review website)

I hadn't planned to break out of prison that day--or any other day, month, or decade. The crazy lady changed my mind.

Four men, if you include me, were crowded into the Operations Room, gawking at a wall-sized digital membrane set to show the outdoor exercise yard. The image was clear enough for counting dust motes, but what it revealed seemed staged, unreal, an action-adventure Experience soon to be interrupted by another interminable batch of commercials. There, on the molecule-thin screen, a female prisoner was sprinting toward the chain-link perimeter fence, which was thirty feet tall and crowned with eighteen strands of barbed wire angled progressively inwards. Like any good action-adventure heroine, the woman was incredibly, implausibly quick.

Outside, yard guards and assorted prisoners were enjoying this free show, standing well beyond the line of fire and placing hasty bets, probably on how close to the fence the runaway would get before being mowed down. Female inmates were rare in Canicula Ultra-Security Penitentiary (which says flattering things about estrogen). This particular inmate looked fit enough but delicate and terribly vulnerable....