Big Lake 03-Crazy Days in Big Lake by Russell Nick

Author:Russell, Nick [Russell, Nick]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Suspense, American Suspense, Police Procedural, Crime Thriller, Murder Investigation, Arizona
Published: 2014-01-08T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

“Damn, Jimmy, I go off and leave you alone without adult supervision for one day, and this is what happens,” Parks said as he plopped himself down in the chair next to Weber's desk. “What's this town coming to? Two barricade situations in a week’s time? If I wanted this, I’d have stayed down in the big city. I came up here to Dog Patch to live the laid-back mountain lifestyle, but you hillbillies are getting pretty rough!”

“Yeah, it's just like you, Parks. When I need you, you’re off on the Reservation playing with the BIA folks.”

Part of Parks’ job was to be the FBI’s liaison with the White Mountain Apache Reservation. He had spent the day with the Bureau of Indian Affairs investigator, Gordon Hahn, searching for a series of suspected meth labs on the reservation. Hahn was a thoroughly dislikable, florid-faced man who tended to bull his way through life, counting on his bulk and bravado to cover up his lack of professional skill and social grace. He failed at that as badly as the mints he constantly chewed on to hide the alcohol on his breath failed to do their job.

“Hey, I'll trade you a crazy man throwing office supplies over Gordon Hahn any day of the week,” Parks said. “I spent the day riding around with him looking at those supposed labs and I’ll tell you what, Jimmy, I'd rather breathe in whatever they're cooking than the air in Hahn’s car. I don't know what that man eats, but if it’s as nasty going in as it is coming out, we need to take him to a veterinarian.”

“He is a delightful human being, isn't he?”

Parks shook his head and said, “That man makes me embarrassed to be a Federal employee. Hell, he makes me embarrassed to be a human being! He has absolutely no business being in his job. We’re in a little restaurant down there in Whiteriver having lunch, and it’s all I can do to gag my food down, sitting there in the booth with him. My pappy’s got hogs back on the farm that have better table manners. And all the while he's talking about the Apaches, calling them things like blanket asses and war whoops. I'm surprised the waitress didn't spit in both of our plates; mine just because I was with him!”

“So did you find the meth labs?” Weber asked him.

Parks shrugged his shoulders and said, “Who knows? I think I could be cooking meth in Hahn’s living room and he wouldn’t know it. The man's just a waste of skin.”

“So it was just a wasted day, huh?”

“Not at all! It made me appreciate just how much I love you and how much you mean to me,” Parks said, batting his eyelashes at Weber. “And speaking of true love, I want all the dirty details on Harrelson and that little gal of his. What set this whole thing off?”

“Well, it looks like Julie got herself pregnant, and when she told

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