Thriller: George wakes up to find his wife, Bollywood superstar Sweety, murdered in their bedroom
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Humans adapted. It was what they did. Didn’t matter if it was fire, flood, a hurricane hitting your house or your career tanking on account of a string of movies which generated sub-par returns at the box office because the Great American Public could no longer concentrate for a span of time longer than a TikTok reel; the point was that the average human was surprisingly adept at rolling with the punches. It was why, he reckoned, Homo sapiens were still around killing the planet while the Neanderthals and those Hobbit people from Indonesia – he’d forgotten their name – had gone the way of the dinosaur.
And he could adapt. Had adapted his whole life. He was a fighter, a survivor. Three decades in Hollywood might have made him a little soft around the edges, but the instincts were still there, ingrained, hardwired into him like sarcasm in a teenager. As the saying went, you could take the boy out of Arkansas, but you couldn’t stop him from punching you in the throat if you looked at him funny.
Through the privacy glass of the air-conditioned SUV, he stared out at the chaos of the city. Twenty million people out there. Half of...