The Arsenal by Jerry Ahern

Author:Jerry Ahern [Ahern, Jerry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Men's Adventure, General, Fiction
ISBN: 9780821723555
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corporation
Published: 1988-05-14T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

He had found his Python, the Metalife finish unscathed, but the cylinder impacted out of the frame, the rear sight broken off and the barrel sprung, or wrenched out of true with the frame, as he had described it. Gun and holster had become separated during the tumble from the mountaintop.

Annie poured her father a drink, he and Paul fresh from another forty-five minutes in the arctic-like temperatures searching the bodies of the climbers and searching for the lost, now recovered but irreparably damaged, revolver.

Was this whiskey more of the Seagram's Seven or was it some of the whiskey he had gotten the Germans to duplicate for him and which — according to Michael—he had put into the original, centuries old bottles? They had duplicated his pet Federal loads for the family's firearms, had duplicated parts and lubricants and all sorts of items.

She sipped at the glass she had poured for herself. It tasted the same as Seagram's Seven had always tasted, but it would have, of course, or her father would not have wasted his time bringing it to the Retreat. It was a gross understatement, but John Thomas Rourke was a man of definite tastes.

Annie Rubenstein took two glasses in hand and walked back toward the sofa which dominated the center of the great room, setting two down, then going 113

back to the kitchen counter, up the three steps, Elaine having poured the other two glasses.

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