John Sandford by 14. Naked Prey (2003)

Author:14. Naked Prey (2003) [Prey, 14. Naked]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-11-06T01:14:00+00:00

“Which gets us away from the question I want answered, and I want to know that I’m being told the truth,” Ruth said, squaring off against Calb and Davis. She had her wintery fighting smile fixed on her face. “This kidnapping thing. This Sorrell girl. You didn’t know about it, you didn’t have any part of it, either of you. This wasn’t some kind of money-making deal that went wrong.”

“My God, Ruth. No. Never. I’m not nuts,” Calb said. The way he said it made her believe him.

Davis was quieter, but just as convincing: “The thing is, Ruth, if these news stories are right, the kidnappers wanted a million bucks for this kid. They were gonna cut it three ways that we know of, and probably had to be four, since it seems like there’s a fourth one on the loose. That’d be a quarter-million apiece, for risking the death sentence. Gene and I make that much, every year, just running our quiet little car business. There wouldn’t be no sense in it.”

“Some sense for somebody like Deon,” Singleton said. “He was getting nothing but chump change.”

“Just like you, Loren, and both of you happy to get it,” Calb snapped.

“Hey shut up,” Ruth said. She looked at the two men, poked a finger at them. “We don’t need a quarrel. So … what does Gene say to the police?”

“He plays dumb,” Davis said. “That’ll work, if you let it work. If you don’t get smart. You go ahead and sweat, and wiggle around, and apologize the man always likes to see that. But just be dumb. Yeah, you hired him, because I asked you to, to get him out of the neighborhood. They come to me, and I say, “Hell, yes, it was a big favor, getting’ Deon off my back, and his old lady, too.”

“We tell them that his pay probably wasn’t enough for some city boy who wants to put cocaine up his nose, and so he went off on his own,” Davis continued. “I mean, this thing they did with this little girl Deon’s

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