Free To Die: A Short Story

Amos, the enforcer, wanted out.
At forty-seven – and after twenty-nine years of following orders - he knew his time was limited.
He had served his masters well, but age and sloppiness had made him expendable.
But how to exit gracefully – and alive!
“Unlike the living, the dead tell no tales.” That was their motto. The way they did business.
Was he smart enough to find away around this long established modus operandi?
Or was he soon to be home for the worms?