The Bounty Hunters (The Conway Report Book 4) by Nick Svolos

Author:Nick Svolos [Svolos, Nick]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-04-03T04:00:00+00:00

IX

If they had a Nobel Prize for taking unfathomable weirdness in stride, my father would walk away with it. Once I explained the fix I was in, he gave his crew the day off and told me to “Bring ‘em on over. I’ll get the guest room ready.”

I loved that old guy, almost as much as I hated myself for putting him, his home, and his business at risk. I hated letting guys like Reggie know where he lived. I hated the situation that forced me into this. I hated a particular pair of bounty hunters who seemed to think grabbing someone’s children was an acceptable way to bring a crook to justice. While I was in a hating mood, I also hated whoever was behind it all, even though I still didn’t know who to direct it at.

But most of all, I hated that damned penguin singing in my head.

Oh, those Frosty Oats!

I gave Vic the address and he took the wheel for the trip out to Norco. I tried like hell to nod off. Naturally, that effort went about as well as the Dukakis campaign. I gave up after a while and turned on the news.

It wasn’t pretty.

The cops downtown had their hands full trying to maintain law and order among the roving protest mobs doing their damnedest to get at each other. For the most part, the cops kept them isolated and relatively calm. Of course, that didn’t please the ringleaders who wanted to make the evening news. Things took a turn for the worse when a few city council members got involved. I’ll leave it to the spin doctors to make the case whether they were looking for votes or making a legitimate effort to calm things down, but they certainly didn’t help matters. One of the councilmen, Al Dillon, got himself a bullhorn and was leading a pro law-and-order march when they ran into a police barricade set up to manage Cherise Walker’s mob of pro-Sinfonie demonstrators. The cops there could have easily managed either crowd on their own, but caught in the middle and turned the wrong way, they were overrun in minutes. Two city blocks erupted into a riot.

The reporter described the scene over distant ambulance sirens. I shivered. Nothing’s as scary as people who think they’re doing the right thing.

Of course, the hunters didn’t want to be left out of the fun. It was bound to happen. Pack a bunch of competitive alpha predators into a limited hunting ground and they couldn’t help but bump into each other. When their expected prey didn’t show up, they started to get edgy. Some jockeyed for position. Others decided to settle old grudges. Over the course of about twenty minutes, four brawls broke out in the skies and on the city’s rooftops. A couple of buildings collapsed and some cars caught fire. The cops and Angels were stretched beyond their limit. Soon, the pot was in full boil and there was no one to turn off the heat.

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