08 : Hunter

The story starts with Larna giving a presentation to a number of police cadets in a new space station high above the planet’s surface. One of the police cadets is Hunter. Hunter knows everything about Larna. He has got both a crush on her, but he also seeks revenge. Alaska Jordan, Larna’s ex-assassination partner, was Hunter’s sister. He saw what Larna did to Alaska and now wants to pay her back. Hunter comes up with the perfect solution.

Larna is chased through time and various places that she has visited before by Hunter who wants to kill her.

Places that Larna re-visits are:

1. February 13, 1992 – Dallas+Miami – Natalie Beaumont – Larna gets caught up in the investigation into the murders of men at a strip club.
2. August 24, 1989 – Washington – Susan Ward – A gang is kidnapping teenage girls off the street. This gang takes them to multi-millionaires’ house and they are locked in a room. They are drugged and abused. This abuse is getting them ready for their staring role in a pornographic movie. Their first and last staring roles are them being stripped naked and abused, on film. They are then killed. It was the latest craze at the time. Snuff movies.
3. July 25, 1993 – Italy – Annetta Capatoni – Larna finds that another Mafia boss who is trying to force Annetta’s father into giving up the battle against him has kidnapped Annetta. Larna has to try and stay one-step ahead of Hunter, Annetta’s angry father to try and find Annetta.
4. August 30, 1989 – Singapore – Rebekah King – Story about the Belfast Child i.e. children being kidnapped from all over the world and being taken to Belfast. Larna joins Sheena McFaul and Rebekah to find out what is going on. Hunter trails her.
5. July 30, 1990 – Canada – George Greenham – There have been a number of murders committed, running in Alphabetical order of names.
6. April 30, 1998 – Hawaii – Teressa Beaumont – Kidnappers took several teenagers, whose partners are wealthy people in Hawaii, off a boat. Larna joins in the search.
7. January 27, 1995 – Belfast – Grade ‘A’ Killer is killing students with ‘A’ Grades is the story at the background of the final chase between Larna and Hunter.

The final confrontation with Hunter is in a dock side warehouse in Belfast. Before Larna can react and shoot Hunter, Hunter hits Larna with a mind-erasing ray. Larna fires her laser gun and the story ends with the warehouse going up in flames and exploding.