Trouble Is What I Do by Walter Mosley

Author:Walter Mosley
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: 2020-02-24T16:00:00+00:00

“You should call the next time,” Harry said to my back as I went out the door.

I didn’t answer him.

“Hilton Zeal,” Hush said.

Hush, Catfish, Lamont, and I were sitting around a coffee table in the four-bedroom apartment the ex-assassin kept over Pruitt’s Drugs and Sundries in Nyack.

“Who’s Hilton Zee?” Catfish asked.

“He’s considered the most dangerous criminal on the East Coast by law enforcement,” Hush said. “And quite a few on the other side of the line agree with that assessment. He’s only about fifty but old-school and slick as shit in olive oil.”

“You know him?” Lamont asked me.

“Only by reputation. I’m sure he knows me the same way.”

“So why’s he after me?” Catfish asked.

“Zeal’s an upscale crook,” I replied. “Rich people come to him because they believe he’s more reliable than those further down the line. You know, people like me. Odds are your son hired him.”

“So what you sayin’?” Catfish wanted to know.

“The safest thing to do would be for you two to drop the whole thing and go back to Mississippi,” Hush advised.

“But,” I added, “if you still want to move ahead, it’d be best to try and convince your son to back off.”

“And if he refuses,” Hush said, finishing the round, “maybe we should make him die.”

“No,” Catfish asserted. “He’s my son. I don’t even know for a fact that he hired this Zee.”

Worry was adamant, and he was the client. And things weren’t as bad as Hush made them sound. But even if he was right—the good thing about being between a rock and a hard place was that you don’t have much of a choice.

“How’s the shoulder, Mr. Worry?” I asked.

“Kinda stiff,” he said. “That lady doctor said it was a twenty-two caliber. You know I still got muscle up in that shoulder from my cotton-pickin’ days.” It was almost as if he were putting together his next blues song. “You got a answer for this tangle, Mr. McGill?”

“Maybe. I’ll need a little more information from you, but I already know how to get to your granddaughter.”

We talked for a little while after that, and then I took the 516 bus back to Manhattan.

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