Smoke by DONALD E. WESTLAKE

Author:DONALD E. WESTLAKE [WESTLAKE, DONALD E.]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: CA PH PR UM US VI
ISBN: 9780759522947
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2001-04-11T04:00:00+00:00

30

“That was too close a call,” Freddie said. He was staying in the back of the van, clothes off, just in case they got stopped by some law sicced on them by the chief. It hadn’t happened so far, which meant it was increasingly unlikely to happen, but nevertheless. Freddie’s wrist still burned where the chief had grabbed it, and his mouth still remembered the bad taste of the chief’s work-roughened fingers.

Up front, Peg concentrated on her driving. “What got me about that guy,” she said, “was how easy he took it. Like he talked to invisible people all the time.”

“I don’t like a cop that doesn’t get rattled,” Freddie agreed. He was sitting on his rolled-up clothing, trousers on the outside of the roll, but the country road still jounced him pretty solidly against the hard floor of the van. And AstroTurf, as any professional ballplayer can tell you, is no fun to bounce on.

“Well, at least,” Peg said, slowing but not stopping for a stop sign, then making the right onto another small twisty bumpy county road, “now we know for sure there isn’t any paper out on you.”

“I told you Barney was working off the books,” Freddie said. “So now we’re safe and clear. All we have to do is stay away from Dudley.”

“There’s not much there,” Peg said. “We can do our shopping in the other direction.”

“Fi-hine!” Freddie said as hey went over one particularly brutal bump. “How much longer till we get home, Peg?”

“Ten minutes, maybe less.”

“Good.”

“And then we can relax.”

“I keep thinking,” Freddie said, bracing himself with both hands on the AstroTurf, “about that chief back there, and how he damn near got me.”

“Well, he didn’t get you,” Peg said, braking not very much at a yield sign. “So don’t worry, Freddie, you’ll never see that guy again.” She laughed. “And Lord knows, he won’t see you.”

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