Now and then by Robert B. Parker

Author:Robert B. Parker
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Mystery & Detective - General, Mystery, Private investigators, Parker, Mystery & Detective, Fiction - Espionage, American Mystery & Suspense Fiction, Boston (Mass.), Fiction, Mystery fiction, Robert B. - Prose & Criticism, Suspense, Massachusetts, Boston, Thrillers, Large type books, General, Thriller, Spenser (Fictitious character)
ISBN: 9780399154416
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
Published: 2007-10-23T07:48:39.046000+00:00

This is for Rose . . . always.

35.

Because he knew who I was, tailing Red was a little harder. I needed to drop off him more. And I periodically lost him because I was too far off. But I didn’t mind, I just wanted to talk to him alone, in a proper location where there was privacy and space. I knew where he lived. I always found him again. Mostly he drove Alderson places. Though never on dates. Sometimes I crossed paths with the Feds tailing Alderson. We ignored each other. The FBI guys weren’t clumsy, but it is hard to stay on somebody’s tail for a long time without getting noticed. I assumed Alderson knew they were there. My time came in a couple of days. Red drove Alderson out to Taft University in Walford. The FBI and my humble self were trailing along behind them. Red dropped Alderson in front of a red-brick building on the Taft campus. There were evergreen shrubs around the building. A small neat sign out front said Hanes Science Center. A big sign on the front door said something about a conference in the auditorium about

“Taking Back Your Country.” There was a list of speakers. Alderson was at the top. I wondered if it was because he was important or because his name started with A.

The FBI peeled off behind Alderson, hoping to catch him saying something subversive. I stayed behind Red as he drove around a corner and parked on the top level of a four-story garage behind the Hanes building. I went in behind him and parked three cars away. We got out at about the same time. He looked at me and did a small double take.

“Whadda you doing here?” he said.

“Came to chat with you, Darcy.”

He thought for a moment about my knowing his name. Then he said, “I go by Red.”

“My name was Darcy, I’d go by Red, too,” I said.

“You ain’t got red hair, asshole.”

“You sure?” I said.

He made a brush-away gesture with one hand and started toward the elevator. I stepped in front of him.

“We need to talk, Darcy.”

“You looking for trouble?” he said.

“Information,” I said.

“I got no information for you,” he said. “You looking for trouble, I’ll be glad to accommodate you.”

He tried to move past me to the elevator. I moved and blocked him again.

“How’d you happen to hook up with Alderson?” I said. He took two handfuls of my jacket up near my neck.

“You gonna move, or am I gonna move you?” he said. He was a big guy, bigger than I was, but jacket grabbing is an amateur move, and I suspected he’d gotten by much of his tough guy life on being big rather than skillful.

“Okay,” I said. “Okay. I’ll move.”

He grunted and shoved me scornfully away and started past. I kicked both his ankles out from under him and he went down sideways and hard on the cement floor of the parking garage. I stepped back and waited. It took him a minute.

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