Everyone agreed Leonard Watkins was a dangerous man. Convicted of multiple murders, he was sentenced to rot in a cell until he died.
For him, life in prison the first time was like learning to swim in the ocean, cold and dangerous. By the end of his second life in prison, even the sharks avoided him. This, his third life sentence was almost over, and the fourth time, well . . . he was looking forward to it.
Cheating death was forced on him. It wasn’t his fault he was so damned good at it.
His captors didn’t seem to understand why cheating death was easy for him any more than he did.
They searched for answers.
He just accepted it as a gift, a very useful gift.
Three lives in a cage had made him a patient man.
His favorite decades were marked by a visit from a member of the Gannett family.
They were the reason he was in prison.
They were the reason he still existed.