Broken Faith by James Green

Author:James Green
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781909840737
Publisher: Accent Press

Chapter Twenty

Two nights later the same young woman was sitting at the same table, but it wasn’t George she was talking to. It was Jimmy.

‘I spoke to George a couple of days ago and did some checking.’

‘And?’

‘People that matter remember you.’

‘I’m nothing special, I never was. Why would anybody remember me?’

‘The word is that you turned up a few years ago and by the time you left some very influential people were getting their hands dirty trying to scrape shit off the fan.’ Jimmy shrugged. He didn’t care what she’d heard. ‘Also, I was told that the car bomb that got Nat Desmond was down to you.’

He cared about that. It was one thing getting called a bent copper, especially if you were one, but it was another thing altogether getting your name linked to terrorist games.

‘Not me.’

‘Maybe not you personally, but I was told you were the one that saw that it got done.’

‘Whoever told you that doesn’t know his arse from his elbow and if that’s the kind of contacts you have you’ll be no good to me. I need someone who can tell fact from fiction.’

The young woman looked round the big bar. It was another busy night and there was a nice mix but they had a table to themselves and George had made sure their talk would be private so long as they didn’t shout. Across the room George was sitting by himself reading a paperback with a cup of tea on his table. He looked up from his book to where they were sitting. The young woman nodded to him. George ignored her and went back to his reading.

‘Your mate George doesn’t like me. Why would you say he doesn’t like me?’

‘George doesn’t like most people, it’s nothing personal.’

‘Do you think you’ll get to like me?’

Jimmy couldn’t see the point of the question, but whatever it was, it wasn’t a come-on.

‘I don’t know you. I don’t want to know you. But if I knew you I probably wouldn’t like you.’

She changed the subject. She wanted to get alongside him if she was going to work with him. She needed to get a feeling for the kind of person he was and she could see it wasn’t going to be easy at short notice.

‘They say this place was a gangster’s pub in the old days. That it got used by the likes of Lenny Monk and Denny Morris. They were supposed to be real hooligans and nasty with it.’ Jimmy didn’t respond. Lenny Monk and Denny Morris were a long time ago, and both were now dead. ‘They say it was from this pub that you took Denny out and beat the living crap out of him and put him in hospital.’ Jimmy still left it. ‘I’d give a lot to get the full story on that, so would my editor, so would a lot of editors. The inside story of the fall of Denny Morris and the rise of Nat Desmond. I know people who would pay a lot for that story.

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