The Kennedy Connection by R. G. Belsky

Author:R. G. Belsky
Language: eng, eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Atria Books

“Have you heard from your son?” I asked Lee Mathis.

“No.”

“Are you sure about that?”

“Of course, I’m sure.”

“Would you tell me if he did call you?”

“Yes.”

I stared at him without saying anything.

“Okay, I wouldn’t tell you,” he said.

I kept staring.

“Maybe I would, maybe I wouldn’t. I’m not sure.”

“Well, that pretty much covers all the possibilities,” I said.

“But he hasn’t tried to contact me. That’s the truth. I wish he would, I’m so concerned about him. The last contact I had with him was several weeks ago, when I tried to reach him on the phone and he refused to talk to me.”

Mathis himself didn’t look good. He seemed much weaker and more frail than the previous time I was there. It wasn’t just his physical appearance. His voice sounded weak, and there was none of the emotion and excitement about the book he’d had when he talked to me about it before.

“One thing’s for sure,” I told him. “The publicity for all this is going to make everyone want to read your book. I know you wish it didn’t have to happen this way, but at least people will read your book and listen to what you have to say. That should give you some solace.”

“No, it doesn’t give me any satisfaction at all,” he said. “I wanted to do the book, but now I’ve lost my son because of it. That’s not a very good trade, is it? I should have left well enough alone. I shouldn’t have messed with the past. I started these things, set all of this in motion. I wish I hadn’t done that. But it’s too late now to undo the damage I’ve done.”

“Well, it should make your agent happy anyway,” I told him, mostly because I couldn’t think of anything else to say. “Nikki Reynolds is probably ecstatic about all this publicity. She always says there’s no bad publicity for a book, that any publicity is good.”

“Nikki Reynolds isn’t my agent anymore,” he said.

“When did this happen?”

“A few days ago.”

“Just about the same time the news broke about Eric and the connection to the murders here?”

“Yes.”

“So you fired her?”

“Actually, she fired me.”

“I don’t understand.”

“She said she didn’t want to represent me or this book.”

“Why not?”

“She wouldn’t say. She just said she didn’t want to be my agent and then hung up. I called back, but she wouldn’t take the call. Or any other calls I’ve made to her. I don’t understand why.”

Neither did I. That didn’t make any sense at all. Nikki had been willing to try to sell the book when no one else knew him or had any reason to believe any of it at all. Now everyone knew about him and the book and was following the news about Lee Harvey Oswald’s secret son and grandson. So Nikki should have wanted to represent the book more than ever. Instead, she walked away from a likely best seller. Hell, it sounded like she ran away from it. Why? I made a note to call her to ask what was behind her sudden change of heart.

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