The courier by MacLarty Jay

Author:MacLarty, Jay
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Delivery of goods, Transit, International, Corporations, Commercial crimes
Publisher: New York : Pocket Books
Published: 2003-12-15T00:00:00+00:00

"A co-op cat."

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"Cute."

Beyond the central living area the apartment was divided by a gallery corridor, the walls decorated with a melange of watercolors. "It's one of the reasons I like my job," she explained. "I like to visit out-of-the-way places during my travels, trying to find local artists before the world discovers them."

"You have an eye. I like them all."

She led him down one side of the gallery and back up the other, letting him peek into rooms as they passed: bedrooms and bathrooms and a laundry room along the back; the dining room, master bedroom, and a combination office-reading room along the front. Everything was neat and clean, but in a comfortable way that made Simon want to sink down into one of the overstuffed chairs, grab a good book, and throw up his feet And there were plenty of books to choose from, in every room—some in Spanish, some in English— eveiythrng from popular fiction to serious works by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Don Miguel Ruiz. "Watch a lot of television, do you?" So far he hadn't spotted a single set.

Her body tensed slightly. "You like television?"

It was a loaded question, he could hear it in the edge of her voice. Somehow he had managed to touch a nerve, and had the feeling a wrong response might doom what little hope he had for a relationship with this fascinating woman. He considered, for just an instant, saying he never watched the damn thing, but occasionally he did, and knew he would never stand a chance with a woman like Pilar Montez if he compro-

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