Tahoe Blowup - 2 by Todd Borg

Author:Todd Borg [Borg, Todd]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Thriller Press
Published: 2001-09-01T05:00:00+00:00

“Can you think of anyone else who might have wanted to burn Jake Pooler?”

Joe threw his head back in laughter. Spot looked at me, concern on his face, then looked back at Joe.

“Look, man, there’s probably a couple hundred people who wouldn’t lose any sleep over that man’s death. He was the biggest S.O.B. in this town.”

“Give me some names,” I said. “People who’d like to see him gone.”

“Well,” Joe said slowly. “A lot of men in this town have wives who spent some time with Jake.”

“Why?” I asked. “Was he a real charmer with the ladies?”

“Must have been,” Joe said. “Either that, or he was hung like a moose. And some of those husbands for sure would have wanted him turned into toast.”

“Who can you think of?”

Joe started fidgeting, clearly uncomfortable. He glanced again at Spot who sat there watching us, blocking Joe’s escape.

“Names,” I said again.

“Well...” he said, “Jimmy MacIntyre has a real cute little wife, a young brunette, five-four, hundred five pounds.” Joe moved his hands through the air, outlining a curvy woman. “I know for a fact that for several months last summer she was spending afternoons in the sack with Jake.”

“How did an older guy like Jake get her into an affair?”

“You know, the usual. Young woman meets an older man who seems so worldly compared to her husband. The older guy uses all the right words. Next thing, the young woman is all limp in the knees, dreaming about romantic love. She never realizes that all the bastard wants is to get into her pants.”

“You’re saying Jake was a sexual predator?”

“Absolutely. Except, instead of using a knife for persuasion, he used sweet talk. It wasn’t until Jimmy’s wife discovered that Jake had two other ladies going at the same time that she went back to her husband. Yep, ol’ Jimmy MacIntyre, he especially had a bad thing going about Jake.”

“Does he live in the Truckee area?”

“Yeah. Out by Sugar Bowl ski area. He’s a maintenance guy on the chairlifts. You’ll find him in the book.”

“Who else would have been happy to have Jake gone?”

“Like I said, just about half the men in Truckee. Hell, in all of Tahoe, for that matter. Let’s see. There was Dan Turner and Wally Grossman and Big Moe Walsh over at the lumber yard. And, of course, there was that kid who worked in Jake’s office, what’s-his-name.”

“Winton Berger?” I said.

“Yeah. Jake brought him in here a time or two. God, you should have seen the way that kid looked at Jake. From what I saw, lighting Jake on fire wouldn’t satisfy that kid. More like cutting off the old man’s balls would be Winton’s style.”

“Did Jake have a fling with Winton’s girlfriend?”

“Of course,” Joe said as if I weren’t paying attention. “It was sad, when you stop and look at how hard she fell for Jake. She was built like a garden rake, skinny and plain as the workday is long. And her hair was this stringy stuff, it looked like old spaghetti.

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