The Turning by Davis Bunn

Author:Davis Bunn
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Religion, Christian
ISBN: 9780802490322
Publisher: River North
Published: 2014-03-20T05:00:00+00:00

18

“Establish the works of our hands …”

LOS ANGELES

Trent’s Sunday was spent in solitary confinement, locked in his room strategizing. When Gayle learned he needed some time to formulate a response to the Barrett Ministries video, she announced that she had not had a day off in three months and could be found at the pool. The detectives had placed him on their list of top clients. Trent learned this little item when he phoned their headquarters on a Sunday morning and started to beg the on-duty officer for a connection to someone with clout, only to be informed that the manager on call had been alerted the instant he phoned in. He ordered a salad for lunch, and ate it seated in a minuscule courtyard reflecting on life at LA speed. However fast he moved, he still had another race to win, another quest to claim as his own. He had never been happier.

The preliminary workup on John Jacobs was delivered at mid afternoon. Trent thanked the manager, slotted the information into his concept, and went in search of Gayle.

There was no response at her door, so he phoned her cell. She answered on the first ring. “I must have dozed off. Am I late?”

“Not at all. I need some advice.”

“I’m still poolside. Should I come up?”

“Stay where you are. I’ll be right there.”

Even the hotel pool was designed to offer privacy, with shrubs and colorful sunshades to segment the deck. Gayle was stretched out on a divan in a discreet corner. Her one-piece costume was a tawny gold that heightened the luster of her skin. She sat up at his approach and wrapped the towel around her legs.

Trent forced himself to focus on her face as he drew over a chair. “I’m sorry to trouble you.”

“This work is why I was sent to LA. What do you need?”

Trent outlined what he had in mind. As he talked, she resumed her professional mode, slipping the oversized sunglasses onto her hair. “Edlyn needs to hear this.”

“Should it wait until tomorrow?”

“Absolutely not.” She had Edlyn’s private line on speed-dial. When Edlyn Mundrose came on, Gayle pitched her voice so he could hear. “Trent has come up with a concept I found rather remarkable. I told him you would want to hear this without delay.” She passed him the phone and went on, “Tell her just like you did me.”

He could feel his heart squeeze, as though suddenly too big for his chest. He did what he had been taught by the therapist all those years ago, when nerves were enough to render him speechless. Just another throwaway kid whose defect made it all too easy to vanish in the shadows. He spoke slowly, shaping each word carefully, not moving on until the last one had been carved from the air and set precisely in place. “John Jacobs has a prison record.”

“Did you use our in-house people to research him?”

“No, I thought we should be more discreet.”

“Good. Go on.”

“Jacobs had just turned nineteen. He was an underaged drinker using a fake ID, and got into a bar fight.

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