House Justice: DeMarco 5 by Mike Lawson

Author:Mike Lawson [Lawson, Mike]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Thriller, Mystery
ISBN: 9780802119377
Goodreads: 7894340
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Published: 2010-06-08T07:00:00+00:00

At the age of forty-two, Quinn looked at his bank account and the scars on various parts of his anatomy, and accepted a job as Tully’s head of security. And although Tully had never resorted to mass murder as some of Quinn’s previous employers had done, he had asked Quinn to do a number of illegal things on his behalf. Quinn had blackmailed Tully’s competitors. He had stolen industrial secrets. He had bribed politicians and IRS investigators and, if bribes didn’t work, he blackmailed them, too. But the things he did for Tully were not as risky as what he had done in the past, and the benefits were enormous.

He had started out at a salary of two hundred thousand a year and, thanks to Tully’s advice, invested his money wisely. And because he lived with Tully, he paid nothing for food, had no home, and didn’t own a car. The only things he spent money on were health insurance and clothes, and he was frugal when it came to his wardrobe. He had decided, arbitrarily, that he would retire when his savings reached two million but now, because of this thing with the CIA spy, he was thinking that retiring short of his goal would be prudent.

Reflecting back on it, he should have retired after Tully killed the whore.

Tully had been impossible to be around after his wife slept with Marty Taylor. He fired people left and right and verbally abused anyone who came near him. He had temper tantrums like a four-year-old. One night, possibly to lessen his torment but more likely because he wanted to inflict his pain on someone else, he sought out a prostitute. Before his marriage he had used prostitutes frequently, usually preferring small Asian women who were as short as he was.

That night Tully, a man who had little control over his emotions at the best of times, unleashed all the rage and shame he was feeling on an eighteen-year-old Filipino hooker. Quinn had no idea what caused him to snap, but Tully beat her to death. He hit her with his tiny fists until he broke a bone in one of his hands, then pounded her face with a lamp. Afterward, when he came to his senses—when he saw the red-splattered walls and the mangled body on the blood-soaked sheets—he called Quinn. Quinn cleaned up the crime scene as best he could but he knew that if the police pursued the case with any diligence they’d arrest his employer. Fortunately, the victim was a prostitute and the detective in charge of the case was a flexible person. In the end, the crime was pinned on the prostitute’s pimp and the detective took an early retirement to fish on his new boat.

It was after that that Tully began to resort to murder when no other solution presented itself. It was as if the death of the prostitute had completely loosened those weak moral shackles that had previously constrained him, if only marginally. He

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