Bonnie by Christina Schwarz

Author:Christina Schwarz
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Atria Books
Published: 2020-07-07T00:00:00+00:00

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The ambush hadn’t been meant for them. Apparently, Clyde Barrow didn’t rate that level of police effort.

“Odell Chambless! What’s he got to do with it?” Clyde threw the Dallas Morning News on the carpet.

“You oughta be happy you got that Sheriff Schmid fooled. You already got one law’s life on your hands. You don’t want another.”

“But Odell Chambless! He ain’t in my league.”

When, the following week, Chambless proved he’d been in jail in Los Angeles that night, the laws claimed Pretty Boy Floyd was the shooter. “Who next? Jesse James?” the Daily Morning News wanted to know. The only thing Clyde got credit for was popping some bullets from the car.

“As if I’d ever be the one sitting in the car,” Clyde said with disgust, which Bonnie could see hurt W.D.’s feelings.

Bonnie, however, got an honorable mention. According to the sheriff, a girl had been “riding with the hunted slayers,” “a tough, two-gun girl.”

At first this description affronted her. “Why would they say that?” she whined, reading it for the fifth or sixth time. “I hate guns. All I did was drive the car. And what does that mean ‘as tough as the back end of a shooting gallery’? I don’t appreciate being compared to the back end of anything.”

“I keep telling you,” Clyde said. “They see what they want to see. You oughta be happy they think you’re tough.”

“I don’t want to be tough.” But as she reread the passage again, she began to value its admiring tone. A man with a gun was a dime a dozen, but a “two-gun girl” was extraordinary. More extraordinary even than an actress, singer, or poet.

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