13 bullets were fired by one of the Changretta’s commandos: one almost touched the heart, missing it by 4 millimeters. Others have avoided vital parts, but one has pierced the spleen... God knows how John didn’t die of internal bleeding, but maybe it wasn’t meant to be: even thinking that medicine wasn't so advanced in 1925, but that's another story...

John woke up from his coma six days after the attack on January 1, 1926: perhaps, after all, the new year was a good time to wake up alive. But, however, he could not understand much of what was happening, except for intense intercostal pain.

Feck. He muttered, strained.