A Nightmare by David Beers

Author:David Beers [Beers, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B00LXD6PNO
Goodreads: 22745109
Published: 2014-07-17T00:00:00+00:00

12

“Where are you?” Larry asked.

“You don’t want to know,” Joe answered. He listened to his brother sigh into the phone.

“You’re going to die,” Larry said. “You’re going to get yourself killed and it’s not going to be pretty. Is that what Patti would want? This? You running around looking for that man?”

“You’ve seen the letter. We’re all going to die if someone doesn’t stop him.”

“You’re. Not. A. Fucking. Cop,” Larry almost screamed into the phone. “You’re a retired landscaper with a coke addiction. You don’t think they have other people on this? People that can do a better job than you?”

“How good of a job did those people do last time?”

Neither of them said anything for a while after that.

Joe was still in the bed and breakfast hotel, running lower on cocaine than he would like. He had his computer on, Google loaded, but nothing typed into the search bar. How many hours had he been sitting like this? Alternating between lines of cocaine and typing in a few words before deleting them just as quickly? Another day had passed since he visited the Holy Ground, as he was thinking about it. Another day and, if he was honest with himself, nowhere closer to finding Brand.

“What are you going to do that they can’t do, Joe? If you can tell me that, I might say, ‘you know, he’s right. The bastard took his son, and if he can do this better than the cops, then he has every right to be out there doing it.’ So what can you do that they can’t do?”

He could snort a hell of a lot more cocaine than they could, he knew that. Joe took the phone away from his ear and bent to the same white crusted plate he’d been using for the past two days and took up another line.

“And if I say nothing, and I come home, what then? Just live in your basement some more? That’s if Brand doesn’t accomplish what he says he will.”

“Maybe. Maybe you live a few more days. Is there anything so wrong with that? Just tell me, what you’re going to do that they can’t do.”

Maybe Larry was right. He was holed up in a hotel room, snorting blow and making failed attempts at Google searches. He’d been up for two days, and what did he have to show for it?

“I can’t stop. I can’t just not look for him.”

“Yes, you can. You can come home and you can let the police find him.”

He’d spent the last two years tracking this man—watching, waiting. Brand wasn’t going away forever, Joe never believed that. Joe had seen the man face to face and understood that what drove him went deep, that there was no cure for what Brand had caught. And now Brand was back, and he had let the world know his plans, and after all these years, Joe was doing nothing more than staring at computer screens and buying bags of cocaine. If this was

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