Heaven, My Home by Locke Attica

Author:Locke, Attica
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: 2019-09-16T16:00:00+00:00

Darren’s time in the box with Gil Thomason was as unproductive and unpleasant as a trip to the bathroom after a hard bender, and his head ached just as much. He was admittedly distracted by the turn this case had taken, by Greg’s cocky assurance that he was doing the right thing, and by Darren’s own doubts about Leroy Page. He believed Dana and her tears for her brother. But why would the old man have lied about seeing Levi the night he disappeared?

Gil wasn’t exactly cooperating. He alternated between stony silence—arms crossed tightly across his chest, wooden chair leaned back on its rear legs—and launching race grenades at Darren, as if he’d grown bored and wanted to see how they would land. Nigger. Coon. Nigger-coon. Roach. Monkey with a badge. “Did you know that on average, black men have IQs twenty points lower than white men? So chances are, badge or no badge, I’m a hell of a lot smarter than you, Ranger.”

“If you tell me you can spell IQ, then I’ll believe it,” Darren said.

Gil actually paused for a second, thinking. The answer was so simple, as was the joke embedded in it, that Gil had to search hard in his brain for the trick, and it left him gape-mouthed and looking as dumb as driftwood. And that only made him madder. Nigger. Coon. Burr-head. Buckwheat motherfucker.

There wasn’t a single visible tattoo on his tanned and ropy arms. His neck likewise bore no marks save for acne scars and shave bumps along the hairline. Darren wasn’t sure Gil Thomason knew who Hitler was, let alone could explain the significance of the seminal text Mein Kampf that was in his trailer. And after fifteen minutes, Darren decided he’d wasted enough of his time on Gil and lost his appetite for dirty dealing; it was a fire you could start for a single good reason and end up turning a forest to ash. He was on his way out of the station when he was informed by one of the deputies that Marnie was asking to speak to him.

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