Predator If It Bleeds 63

A searing blue light flashed and the sudden stink of burned hair and flesh filled the air. Something pattered down on him, hot and sticky. It took him a second to recognize the hunk of flesh that struck his boot as a man's hand. He kicked it off and ran faster. He passed Lars grappling a tall man. There was no time to stop and help Lars. He had to get to Mina.-pg.337 chpt.13

He'd only been a boy during the Civil War, but he'd grown up aring stories of what cannon-fire did to a man, and he could only imagine that whatever that blue flash was, it put a cannon to shame. No noise, no explosion: just pure carnage. Half the gang's horses had been reduced to scraps by it. Fat Malone had a horse hoof driven through his chest by the force of the blast.-pg.338 chpt.13