Jolie Blon's Bounce by James Lee Burke

Author:James Lee Burke [Burke, James Lee]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9780743411448
Amazon: 0743411447
Publisher: Pocket Star
Published: 2000-01-02T08:00:00+00:00

Helen and I were on our way back from an inter-agency law enforcement meeting in Jeanerette when we passed the situation in progress in front of the Boom Boom Room. We pulled to the side of the road and told Marvin to get in the backseat of the cruiser, behind the steel-mesh screen.

He threw his suitcase on the seat and pulled the coned brim of his hat down on his brow as we roared away, looking back through the window like a Pony Express rider who had been saved by friends from Indians.

“You crazy, Marvin?” Helen said, glancing in the rearview mirror.

“What’s the name of that guy, the one in charge back there?” Marvin asked.

“Jimmy Dean Styles. Why do you ask?” I said.

“I just feel sorry for them people, that’s all.” He sprayed his mouth with an atomizer.

Helen and I dropped him off downtown, by the Shadows, his face freckled with the sunshine that fell through the oak limbs overhead.

“He seems to have people of color on the mind,” I said.

“He should,” Helen said.

“Pardon?”

“His mother took on all comers. I always heard Marvin’s father was black,” she said.

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