Iris Johansen - Body of Lies by Johansen Iris

Author:Johansen, Iris [Johansen, Iris]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780553582147
Publisher: Bantam
Published: 1992-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

It might have to be the little girl after all, Jules thought sadly.

He watched Jane MacGuire running down the path through Piedmont Park after her puppy. Her grandmother, Sandra Duncan, was helplessly laughing as she ran after them.

The death of the mother might bring Eve Duncan out of hiding, but a threat to a child always had more impact. Particularly in Eve Duncan’s case.

His phone rang.

“We’ve located one of Galen’s contacts in New Orleans,” Melton said when he picked up. “There’s a possibility Galen may have a house near there.”

“How near?”

“He doesn’t know. He says Galen’s a secretive bastard. He thinks within a two-hour drive. I’m working on it. He gave me a solid lead where to start checking paperwork.”

“Then put more people on it. Send teams to every city courthouse within that two-hour radius. I have to know—”

A squad car cruised slowly by.

He hung up and ducked deeper in the shadows of the oak tree where he was standing. It was the third time in the last half hour, and it couldn’t be a coincidence.

He had also spotted that gray-haired jogger in the green sweatshirt outside the child’s school. Quinn had called out his old friends at the police department to watch the little girl. It would make Hebert’s task more difficult.

But not impossible.

NEW ORLEANS

“May I come in?” Bill Nathan stood hesitantly at the bottom of the scullery steps.

Eve didn’t look up. “No, I’m busy.”

“I’ll only be a minute.”

Eve breathed an exasperated sigh. “What is it?”

“I’ve decided I should help you.”

“What?”

“Well, I’m here, but Galen and Quinn don’t think I’m qualified to help them. The most I’ve been able to get them to let me do is go to the supermarket and buy groceries.” He grimaced. “So I thought I’d stay down here and protect you.”

“Protect me? I don’t need you.”

“You never can tell.” Nathan scowled. “I wouldn’t get in your way.”

“You’d talk to me.”

“I can be quiet.” He paused and then said grudgingly, “Please.”

“Why?” Eve carefully smoothed clay over Victor’s mid-therum area. “You obviously disapprove of my doing the reconstruction.”

“I don’t disapprove. I just think you’re taking a big chance. I went to a lot of trouble to try to save you, and I don’t want my efforts wasted.” His gaze went to Victor. “But I want to know if this is Bently as much as you do.”

“Your news story.”

“I’m not apologizing for that. It’s my job.”

“Did Joe tell you about Jennings’s fuel-cell theory?”

“Yeah. It makes sense.” He paused. “There’s another reason I kept pushing for Bently’s case to remain open months after his disappearance. He was fighting for something I believed in, and it made me mad as hell that the special interest groups had him taken out. Do you know there’s a dead spot in the Gulf of Mexico fifty miles wide, where the Mississippi empties into it? The fertilizer in the river sucks up the oxygen and nothing can live. And do you remember the oil spill in the gulf ten years ago? I covered it for the paper.

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