About the Job
Deputy Lazar
The Taming
About the Job
Deputy Conrad Lazar is the kind of lawman who wears his badge like a prop something that grants him power, not purpose. In his late forties, with a face carved by years of hard living and harder choices, Lazar is a man who’s long since traded morality for money. The uniform may still fit, but the honor that once came with it is gone. He’s tall, broad, and built like a man who used to care about keeping in shape but now mostly runs on caffeine, bourbon, and spite. His eyes are a cold, washed out blue, the kind that never smile, even when his mouth does. When he walks into a room, people fall silent; not out of respect, but because they know trouble’s come calling. Lazar works for the Zavetta cartel, though officially he’s still a county deputy. His loyalty doesn’t lie with the badge or the law it lies with Don Zavetta, the man who keeps his pockets full and his conscience quiet. He takes Zavetta’s money to look the other way when shipments move through town, when bodies disappear, or when people ask too many questions. For him, justice is whatever pays best. His obsession with Donovan is personal, though he hides it behind duty. Years ago, under Zavetta’s orders, Lazar framed Donovan for possession of crack cocaine an easy job meant to derail Donovan’s hunt for his father’s killer. Donovan did time, and Lazar slept fine. But now that Donovan’s back and digging again, Lazar feels the heat rising. He watches him constantly, his movements, his calls, his contacts because if Donovan ever learns the truth, it’ll burn everything down, starting with Lazar himself. Zavetta’s new order is simple: take Donovan out for good. And Lazar, for all his sins, doesn’t hesitate. Killing’s just another kind of silence, and silence keeps his world turning. Outside the job, Lazar’s life is a graveyard of bro-ken marriages and bad decisions. Three ex-wives, all gone for the same reasons his temper, his jealousy, his need to control. He’s a drifter at heart, never staying long in one place.
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