East of Denver by Gregory Hill

Author:Gregory Hill
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Group, USA
Published: 2012-06-11T04:00:00+00:00

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That’s it. That’s how you plan a bank robbery. You sit in a muggy basement with a paralyzed asshole, an anorexic fatso, and your prematurely senile father. Let everyone talk at once and eventually, if you allow yourself to become too annoyed to fight, they’ll form an idea. Nobody took notes. No need. It was simple. We’d do the job in the middle of the day. Dad and I would go to the bank with the bag of coins from Vaughn’s mom’s liquor cabinet and say we wanted to put them in a safe-deposit box. Clarissa would lead us down the hall and toward the vault. Neal Koenig, the bank manager, would open it up. At that moment, Vaughn, who would be in an undisclosed location, would call in a false fire alarm for an imaginary spot at the edge of the Keaton Volunteer Fire Department’s jurisdiction. As news of the fire spread, the bank would be emptied of its patrons, who, as we knew from the experience at the softball game, would chase the fire truck like hounds after a rabbit. Clarissa would volunteer to watch the bank until everyone got back. Of course, Neal Koenig would lock the vault before he ran out to follow the fire engine. But that didn’t matter because we had Pa.

With the bank empty, Dad would crack the safe. We’d fill up a suitcase with cash, hop in the car, pick up Vaughn, and then skedaddle the hell out of the county. No need to sneak in at night. No alarm. Simple. Easy.

It wasn’t the best bank robbery plan in the world. In fact, I suspected that there might be some serious flaws. When I mentioned that it seemed like the collectible coins had more of a symbolic purpose than anything, Vaughn agreed. “If I’m not going to be there helping you guys out, I want to be represented by my grandpa’s coins.” Reasonable enough.

Still, we decided to wait a week, just to make sure we had our ducks in a row. Knock out a few details. Such as what we were going to do immediately after the robbery. Go into hiding? Leave the county? Leave the country? But those things would sort themselves out.

It seemed possible.

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