Perchance to Dream by Robert B Parker

Author:Robert B Parker [Parker, Robert B]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: mystery, thriller
ISBN: 9781597770255
Google: zFTzvQEACAAJ
Amazon: 1597770256
Goodreads: 1690137
Publisher: Putnam
Published: 1991-01-10T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 18

When I got to the Hobart Arms, I noticed the black Buick was parked across the street. The motor was off this time, and it seemed to be empty. I parked a couple of spaces past it and walked back toward my building along Franklin. As I went up the steps a figure detached from the shadow of the shrubs and pointed a gun at me. Another figure appeared behind me.

"Hold it right there, pally," a voice said. It was a flat voice with very little in it that was human. A flashlight beam hit me in the eyes.

I held it right there. Behind me I felt the press of a gun barrel against my spine, in the small of my back. I could hear its owner's breath in my ear. Feel it on my neck. There was no one on the street, nobody in sight.

"Got a message for you, pally," the flat voice said. He was out of sight behind the brightness of the flashlight.

"Who's your voice coach?" I said. "You sound like a bad movie."

"Don't look for Carmen Sternwood anymore," the flat voice said. "Don't pay any attention to Randolph Simpson. Don't go near Dr. Bonsentir."

"Okay if I eat a pitted prune now and then?" I said.

The voice went on as if it were a recording.

"This is the only warning you'll get. You don't behave and the next one will be fatal."

"Anything else?" I said.

"Yeah," the voice said, "one other thing."

From behind the blinding light a fist appeared. I caught the glint of brass knuckles for a moment before they exploded against my jaw. I staggered back against the gunman behind me. Bright lights exploded in front of my eyes. I kicked the flat voice in the general area of the stomach and heard him gasp and then something erupted against the side of my head and the lights coalesced into a brilliant starburst and then blackness into which I slid as peacefully as a drunken seal.

I was drifting through a black sea and above me in the light I could see Carmen and Vivian dancing with a man I didn't know while Claude Bonsentir played the violin. I tried to swim upward toward them but the sea was thick and cold and I wasn't making any progress.

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