Deep South by Nevada Barr

Author:Nevada Barr [Barr, Nevada]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, General, Mystery, Mystery & Detective, Suspense, Detective, Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths, Fiction - Mystery, Women Sleuths, Mystery fiction, Mystery & Detective - Series, Mississippi, Pigeon; Anna (Fictitious character), Women park rangers, Natchez Trace Parkway
ISBN: 9780425178959
Publisher: PENGUIN group
Published: 2001-01-01T06:00:00+00:00

Shoot us all?" The Doolittle brothers didn't continue to circle, but they didn't go back to the Thunderbird either. Jackals, Anna thought.

They would feed on the carcasses Posey left behind.

Anna raised the nine-millimeter, aligning the iridescent green dots on the night sight to either side of Mike Posey's nose. "I don't want to shoot you all," she said. "I only want to shoot you, Mike." At the moment she really did want to blow the man's brains out, and he heard it in the ice beneath the words. He stopped, took half a step back.

Anna's radio bleated to life. "Five-eighty, five-seventy, I'm on my way." Steve Stilwell. He was even farther away than her own rangers but had sense enough not to give his location over the radio. "Get down on the ground," Anna said to Posey.

Posey weighed the impending arrival of backup, the abandonment of his fellows, and Anna's willingness to shoot him. Abruptly his manner changed. "Hey, lady, we were just having fun. No harm, no foul." He smiled charmingly. "You didn't have to pull a gun. Lord, what'd you think we were going to do?"

"On the ground."

"Fuck." Posey got on his hands and knees. "I'm not laying on the goddamn road. I could get run over." Anna could live with that. "Down. Now." A rushing in the bushes to her left let her know the Doolittle boys had rabbited. They'd be picked up easily enough. She had the car, the driver's license, their home address and where they worked.

"Your pals have deserted you," she said. "Put your hands in the small of your back." While Anna cuffed and searched him, Mike Posey outlined his defense. They'd been confused. Anna'd gotten scared and drew down on them for no reason. The Doolittles bad narrowly escaped. She'd endangered Posey's life a second time forcing him to lie in the road.

She invaded his person when searching him, fondled his private parts. He would bring a lawsuit against her. He would get her fired.

Anna didn't respond. Engaging was always a mistake. When she could get a word in edgewise, she read him his rights.

During confrontations over the years, she'd heard Posey's line of reasoning more than once. This time it just might work, she realized uneasily. She'd have to write a report justifying unholstering her weapon, justifying pointing it at an unarmed man. Neither Posey nor the two brothers had made verbal threats." All" they had done was refuse to stay in the one place. If anybody wanted to hang her out to dry, buy into the scared-woman-overreacts story, Anna was going to spend a lot of time defending herself to the brass.

Lest the vile Posey have additional fuel for his fires, she was careful to cuff him just right, ease him into the patrol car and buckle his safety belt. There at least would be no bruises, should he move on to a police brutality charge. "What are you charging me with?" he demanded as she slid behind the wheel. "I got a right to know.

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