Crow Shine by Alan Baxter

Author:Alan Baxter [Baxter, Alan]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, mobi
Publisher: Ticonderoga Publications
Published: 2016-11-12T23:00:00+00:00

The sound of ringing, atonal and electronic, pushed into his brain. Blinking against the light he rolled over, feeling around the bed, eventually finding the phone. TERRY FUHRER. The time read 9.18. “Shit.” He pressed the button to answer. “Hey, Terry. I’m really sorry.”

“You didn’t call me back and you didn’t turn up this morning. Your job is hanging by a thread, Johanssen.”

“I’m sorry, Terry. I’m onto something here. I was on it all night.”

“It better be the story of the fucking century!”

David laughed. “You know what, it could be. I’ve uncovered this - I don’t know, this group of some kind. They’re powerful and they’re messing with people. I watched them shoot a guy in the head, for fuck’s sake.”

“This sounds like bullshit to me, you drunken bastard.”

“No, really, this could be massive. Trust me, Terry, yeah? Just give me a couple of days on this.”

“Did you go to the police?”

David winced. “Yeah. Yeah, I did. Probably nothing they can do, but I gave my statement. But I don’t want to let this go.”

Terry sighed. “Don’t spend the next coupla days pissed. I want you back in here the day after tomorrow and I want a story that blows my fucking socks off.”

David leaned his head back, exhaled loudly. “Thanks, Terry. Really, thanks. I’ll see you in a couple of days.”

“Yeah.”

The line went dead. David held the phone to his ear, listening to the silence. Lily. Was that real? It had certainly felt real. More so than anything ever had before.

It was another hot, muggy day. He showered, standing in cold jets of water, trying to think straight. The board was broken. He needed to be done with all this. He needed to leave all this stuff behind, to close this chapter with Michael. Whatever Lily was, she was right. He had been drawn into this thing and couldn’t walk away until it was finished. Michael, whatever else he was, was a cold blooded killer. Whatever this company was, it was getting away with murder.

David would strike a blow. He would kill Michael. That was the one thing he could do to finish this. And it might be the last thing he ever did, but so fucking what? He was a useless drunk worth more to his boys dead than alive. If he somehow survived today, he would have that talk with Stella. But it was the least likely resolution, and that was fine by him.

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