Johnny was no fool. He had been suspicious of the one-billion-dollar bounty from the start. A price that high on a simple schoolboy did not make sense. It smelled like a trap. He knew the target had to be incredibly dangerous.
That was why he had brought his entire force. Over five hundred men. He had intended to overwhelm the target with sheer numbers.
and take the bounty by himself.
He was not a legendary assassin. He was a businessman. He ran a small but profitable branch of the underworld specializing in extortion kidnapping and other unsavory but lucrative ventures.
He had his own small army a private militia of loyal thugs and hired guns. He was a small-time king a minor lord in the vast and dangerous kingdom of the underworld. And he had just kicked a hornet's nest.
