Bad News (d-1) by Donald E Westlake

Author:Donald E Westlake [Westlake, Donald]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: det_irony
ISBN: 0-7595-8238-6
Published: 2001-10-24T04:00:00+00:00

26

East,” Tiny said.

Dortmunder had been half-asleep. Now he turned to look at Tiny, who was spread across the Jeep’s backseat, and said, “Tiny? You say something?”

“I said ‘East,’” Tiny said.

Dortmunder looked around at the night. It had already been full dark when they’d left the Tea Cosy after dinner for the four-hour drive south, and now it was nearly one in the morning and they’d just crossed the Triborough Bridge onto Grand Central Parkway, bypassing Manhattan, juking over from the Bronx to Queens. Late on a Friday night, but there were still a lot of drivers in passenger cars all around them, most of them likely to be drunk.

“East,” Dortmunder commented. “You mean we’re driving east,” he decided.

“Southeast,” Tiny said.

Kelp, at the wheel, had just turned off onto the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. Dortmunder nodded. “You mean now we’re going southeast,” he said.

“That’s what the car says,” Tiny told him.

Dortmunder twisted around again to get a full double-O of Tiny back there. “Whadaya mean, ‘That’s what the car says’?”

Tiny pointed to where Dortmunder’s halo would be, if he had a halo, and said, “Right there.”

So Dortmunder faced front again, put his head way back, and saw, tucked under the Jeep roof, above the windshield, a kind of black box. It had bluish white numbers and letters on the side facing the rear seat, glowing in the dark:

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