Zzzap incinerating bldgs and blowing up heads

There were tons of them inside, too. He’d incinerated a dozen exes (and the corner of a building) with one blast and swung down to fly straight through a group of about twenty by the base’s post exchange. Most of them were left with cauterized stumps on top of their shoulders. The skull of one exploded like a grenade when he hit its cochlear implant. He shook for a minute afterward.

Excerpt From Ex-Patriots, pg 508
Peter Clines
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