Tempted by Trouble by Eric Jerome Dickey

Author:Eric Jerome Dickey [Dickey, Eric Jerome]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Mystery & Detective, General, Romance, Fiction, Suspense Fiction, Crime, Erotica, Unemployed - Psychology, Husband and Wife, Swindlers and Swindling, Recessions - Psychological Aspects, African Americans, African American, Bank Robberies
ISBN: 9780525950585
Google: FHArcgAACAAJ
Amazon: 0525950583
Publisher: Dutton Adult
Published: 2010-08-16T18:30:00+00:00

13

Delowe Drive was a narrow street that a man could miss if he blinked. Eddie Coyle just happened to leave that out, so I drove about two miles too far and ended up down by the West End Mall before I back-tracked. Every mile or a so there was an accident or a car that had slid off the road into a building or a pole. In this weather, that added another forty-five minutes to my trip in the bowels of hell.

Once I exited the prestigious Cascade, I saw how the less fortunate lived. It was like being in Detroit. Or North Carolina. It was like being in New Orleans. The poor were scattered all over the country and the rich lived in pocket communities with walls high enough to keep the poor away. Foreclosures were behind those walls too. A lot of Jacks and Jills had fallen hard.

I passed a man standing at a bus stop, a man who looked like Rick, but when I looked in my rearview mirror he was gone. I rubbed my eyes and kept moving forward.

A few seconds later, at another bus stop I passed a man who looked like Sammy.

Again, when I looked in my rearview mirror, that man was gone too.

I swallowed and felt the lightness in my head and inside my body.

Something told me that I was already dead, that I had died back in Los Angeles. But the pain I felt in my heart told me that I was still alive.

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