Fallen Father by Chuck Driskell

Author:Chuck Driskell [Driskell, Chuck]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Autobahn Books
Published: 2020-03-26T16:00:00+00:00

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The Audi’s clock showed 1:03 A.M. when Gage arrived at the Vogel estate. He removed the pistol from the car, carrying it inside and putting it away. Sheriff was at Thomas’s house until tomorrow. Gage popped some Advil and guzzled a bottle of water. Next, he spirited several frozen gel packs from the built-in Liebherr freezer, using two elastic bandages to hold the packs against his large wound. As his leg and butt cooled, he made a pot of strong coffee and a peanut butter sandwich, listening to the silence of the manor house. He stood at the bar and ate the sandwich and a banana. Then, with his leg throbbing a John Bonham-worthy beat, Gage condensed the list of people who might have tried to kill him.

Or was it a random act of violence?

This is Germany. People follow rules here. It wasn’t random. Make your list.

Whoever it was knew he’d flown from the airport. Knew where he’d parked. Knew Karl Vogel’s Audi. Knew when he was arriving back from Nice. They probably knew they couldn’t get to him at the estate, so the parking deck was their best choice.

With cameras everywhere?

Gage had long ago stopped trying to justify other people’s actions. Had he been tasked with taking someone out, he certainly wouldn’t have chosen a parking deck at one of the busiest airports in Europe.

But, Gage reminded himself, it had nearly worked. Had I been two feet forward, I’d have been struck squarely and probably killed.

So, who was it? Il Magnifico had to be at the top of the list. Gage’s meeting with him had been full of deception. And while the Italian acted as if there were no rift between the Vogels and himself, Gage had no way of knowing that. Perhaps it went far deeper. Perhaps Il Magnifico wanted the Vogel family completely out of the way—an attempt to cut out the proverbial middleman. Perhaps Il Magnifico had Karl Vogel killed, and was now eliminating the one emissary of the estate that remained in his path. It would have been relatively easy to follow Gage and to know exactly when he was departing Nice.

Thus, Il Magnifico was Gage’s chief suspect.

Second to the Italian drug baron were Katja and/or Ina. Though such an action didn’t seem to fit either of the women, they’d be eliminating the person who might eventually prove them guilty. Perhaps they hired a hit man?

But, Gage was attempting to prove them innocent. Killing him would virtually guarantee them of zero inheritance because they were already guilty in their mother’s eyes.

Unless they knew something Gage didn’t.

He had to keep them on the suspect list—near the bottom.

The third attempted murderer was an unknown person. It was the killer of Karl Vogel. It was a person Gage had yet to discover. He held this open as a possibility. He had to. There was a strong chance that he’d not yet come close to identifying Karl’s murderer.

And, you still haven’t even confirmed the results of his blood test.

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