Malice in Mexico by Gayle Wigglesworth

Author:Gayle Wigglesworth [Wigglesworth, Gayle]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: mystery
ISBN: 9780980009835
Publisher: Koenisha Publications
Published: 2008-01-02T06:00:00+00:00

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“Hillerman here.”

Kathleen smiled. “KC, Manny. I got your messages. What can I do for you?” She all but purred into the phone.

“KC, it’s about time. I’ve been trying to reach you. I thought you just disappeared.”

“No, sorry, I had to go out of town for a few days. Business, you know? But now I’m back and ready to deal. Are you ready?”

“Hell, that’s why I’ve been calling. My people tested the stuff you gave me and said it was adequate for our needs.”

Kathleen chuckled. “Adequate? How cute, Manny, but a bit of an understatement I would say, wouldn’t you?”

There was a pause on the line, and then Manny said, “All right, they said it was the best they had seen. They want more. I want to work out a deal with you to supply us with the stuff.”

“We can do that. How much are we talking about here?”

“I could use twenty kilos to start, then we can arrange regular shipments. Can you supply the twenty in a few days?”

“It will cost you. Forty per kilo.”

“Forty? That’s ridiculous. I can’t pay that and make money. This isn’t some designer drug you know. Prices have been declining steadily. Users won’t pay that kind of money. You’ll never make it with that price.”

Kathleen didn’t fall for his ploy, or respond to the whine in his voice. “That’s the price. This is an expensive process, but I know, and I know you know that the quality of this product is good enough for you to earn more than four times your cost by the time it gets on the street. And the prices may be down from the old days, but they’ve been holding steady for years. Quit your whining, Manny. I’m not falling for it.” Her voice was hard. She wasn’t giving him any room to bargain.

“I need to make sure the quality of the product delivered matches that of the sample,” He said firmly.

“Not possible. We’re not doing some hokey little exchange out of trunks of cars in back alleys. This is going to be handled like any business transaction. You wire the funds to a certain account in the Cayman Islands, and when I receive confirmation of the deposit, the product will be delivered to the site you stipulate.”

“What? Are you crazy? I’m not sending eight hundred big ones to some black hole in the banking industry without having the product in my hand. What do you think I am, a fool?”

“No, Manny,” Kathleen said slowly. “I think you’re a smart businessman. I think you understand our need to develop a relationship of trust and mutual benefit. So how about we do this in smaller pieces? Say five kilos? Then after that transaction and when you’ve determined you’re satisfied with the quality then we’ll do another five. And then another five and another until, maybe sometime in the near future, we can trust each other enough to ship the full amount on a regular schedule.”

“I don’t like it,” Manny growled into the phone.

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