1984 - Hit Them Where it Hurts by James Hadley Chase

Author:James Hadley Chase
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 6

It was just after 23.00 when I rang on my front door bell. There was a delay as Bill regarded me through the spyhole, then he opened up.

‘No problems, Bill?’ I asked, as he relocked the front door.

‘I’ve settled in.’ He moved into the living room. On the table was the Thorsen file. ‘I’ve been going over this, Dirk, over and over, because pretty soon we’ve got to squeeze something out of it. Something or somebody’s got to give.’

I sank into an easy chair.

‘Let me shoot off my mouth, Bill,’ I said, then went on to tell him about my talk with Josh Smedley.

‘The Mafia are active,’ I concluded. ‘Well, OK. We expected this. They’ve put the fear of God into Mrs. Thorsen. No news of Terry.’ I paused to light a cigarette. ‘Now, Hank. I intend to make his life a misery.’ I went on to tell Bill about the bomb. ‘It’ll wreck the club. I am going to wreck his car. I want him to feel life is on top of him. Then I’m going to wreck his home. Now, Bill, the big point is I don’t want Hank to get the idea that it is me after him. If he does, he’ll run to his Mafia pals and scream for protection, and we could be in trouble.’

I got to my feet and went into the kitchen.

I found a small piece of cardboard. On it I wrote with a felt pen the following: BLACKS NOT WANTED HERE: K.K.K.

I returned to the living room and showed Bill the notice.

‘This will be tacked on the door of the club. It should divert Hank’s thinking that it is me after him. I’ll do the same with the car. This way we’ll gain some breathing space. Of course, sooner or later, the Mafia thugs will realise it is me hitting them, and then they’ll hit back. We have to be ready for that. So once we really get started, we must go underground. I know a place where we can live. It’ll mean leaving here. OK with you Bill?’

‘If you say so, it’s fine with me.’

I got to my feet.

‘I’m going to bed. You keep out of this bomb job, Bill. I’m doing this on my own.’

‘Not a chance,’ Bill said. ‘Where you go, I go too. OK, let’s go to bed.’

‘I don’t want you. This is a one-man job.’

‘Two men are always better than one,’ Bill said and went off to his bedroom.

I had a quick shower, then got into bed. I put my hand on the empty pillow where Suzy’s lovely head so often rested. I thought of her getting acid sprayed in her face, her awful pain and rushing into the street where that truck smashed her to pieces. I didn’t sleep that night.

I lay and thought of those times we had had together, how she had done so much for me, added so much richness to my life.

It wasn’t until the sun began to come through the rain-cloudy sky, that I finally fell asleep, but only for an hour.

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