The Hook by Tim O'Mara

Author:Tim O'Mara
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781448303670
Publisher: Severn House Publishers
Published: 2019-09-30T16:00:00+00:00

SEVENTEEN

‘I can take care of myself,’ Allison said when I returned home and apologized for the late change of plans. ‘I heated up some leftovers and watched a chick flick.’ She was cleaning off a few dishes. ‘You learn anything useful on your field trip?’

‘More than I expected about dice games,’ I said. ‘A little bit about who MoJo may have gotten the heroin from. It was amazing how offended this guy Hex was by my even suggesting he was selling heroin laced with fentanyl.’

‘I’m not surprised, Ray. Any self-respecting dealer suspected of lacing his heroin with fentanyl is not going to stay in business very long. You lose a lot of customers that way. Literally and figuratively.’ She finished washing her last dish, turned around and leaned on the counter. ‘You know anybody out in Canarsie?’

‘I’m sure I do but none that come right to mind,’ I said. ‘I’ll give Billy Morris a call in the morning.’

Billy and I used to work the streets together in Williamsburg when we both came out of the academy. Our relationship ran the way many cop relationships go: we went from inseparable, to separated, and eventually to a couple of guys who got together over beers once in a while, telling stories that just got bigger and better with each retelling.

Never, Billy once told me, let the truth get in the way of a good story.

‘There is something, though,’ Allison said.

‘What’s that?’

‘If MoJo didn’t buy from his usual dealer, this guy Hex, then maybe he didn’t buy the heroin at all. Why would he go to a dealer he doesn’t trust? That’s – and MoJo is a case in point – risky business.’

I thought about that. ‘So someone gave the heroin to MoJo? Someone he trusted enough to take drugs from?’

‘That’s one possibility,’ she said. ‘Put your police cap on, Ray.’

I did. The first thing I came up with was, ‘It’s highly unlikely that someone stashed the stuff on MoJo without his knowing because that’d be kinda hard to do before or after he was shot.’ Even I could tell I was searching for an improbable possibility.

‘True.’ She wasn’t buying it, either. ‘It’s also possible MoJo took the stuff off someone else, the temptation was just too much and got an unexpected jones for a hit, and—’

‘Edgar said MoJo was a sponsor for some of the members of his support group. He could have been protecting someone else.’

‘I can see that,’ she said. ‘But that still doesn’t explain—’

‘How the heroin and fentanyl made it into MoJo’s system.’ I walked out onto the balcony, careful to leave my police cap on. I looked out at the skyline. ‘Is it too late to call your guy at the ME’s office?’

Allison put her hands on my shoulder. ‘It’s almost ten. My guy at the ME’s office does have a life outside the ME’s office, Ray.’

‘I’d like to reach out to him tomorrow. Can I do that directly or do I have to go through you.’

‘I’ll call him in the morning and tell him you’ll be calling.

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