The gun was black. Or silver. Definitely big, though, and definitely a revolver. And it was pointed right at Daniel Ray's head. For the moment, that fact — not the gun's color or a description of the gunman — was all that registered in Ray's mind. The whole thing didn't compute. One moment he'd been about to lock up Joe's Pawn and Bargain Center at 1825 NE 23 and go get some dinner at a Chinese buffet, and the next, the gunman and his two accomplices had burst inside, demanding money and threatening him and his coworkers. For a few...