Leaving the World by Douglas Kennedy

Author:Douglas Kennedy [Douglas Kennedy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2010-02-18T05:00:00+00:00

Alkan told me he could try to tie her up in assorted writs (‘There’s always a way of putting the squeeze on people’), but asked whether I really wanted to run up thousands in legal fees when the prospect was that I still wouldn’t see any money until the contractual date.

‘I sort of knew it would end up like this when I handed over the money,’ I said.

‘I guess it’s hard not to invest in your other half.’

‘He was never my other half,’ I said, the anger suddenly showing.

Alkan took this in.

‘If it’s any consolation,’ he said, ‘I won’t be charging you for all this. And I’d like to keep the pressure on them to get the money to you as soon as possible.’

‘Be my guest . . . and thank you.’

Good God, a moral lawyer. I wasn’t prepared for such decency – any more than I held out any hope that Alkan could strong-arm the money out of Adrienne before its official due date.

But I decided to let him play the bad cop and hope that, just maybe, he’d surprise me with good news.

Two weeks later I received a call from him at my office. He had news . . . but it was anything but good.

‘Fantastic Filmworks went bust three days ago,’ he said.

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